Texas

[Mr King]

How is everyone this morning? We are out of powere here and have been since 2am. Hope everyone is safe!

Thank you. hopefully they fix your power soon.

 

[Chicken Ladies]

Anyone wanting some free eggs to hatch out? I really want to see what my chickens will be producing. I don't have an incubator, nor the money to buy one yet, so I figured if someone was wanting to have more mixed breed chicks around the farm this would be a good way to go. I have a blue cochin rooster covering the following ladies: silver laced cochin, partridge cochin, rhode island red, gold sex link, araucana, there are two other hens in the pen but I do not think he is breeding them. One is a black australorp who has a chick, and the other is a buff brahma, and I have yet to see him breed her. She runs away if he tries to mount her, otherwise she hangs about him.​

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I would love some, but I live in city and only allowed 5 chickens. I have a hen sitting on eggs and I have no roosters

 

[WldFlwrs]

My rooster is broody.

Let me tell you, he was giving his girls a good talking to the whole time he was sitting on those eggs.
He went to each nesting box (4 total) and sat on each egg, "lecturing" the hens the whole time!!
LOL

 

[Chicken Ladies]

 

[Sqwidy]

Feeling so lucky for some sun in Austin today! The (quickly growing) chicks are having a great time this morning. Hope there's some sun where you are too!

 

[Eliza1313]

Turkey poults arrived today. All alive plus one extra. Looks like most of them are Blue Slates, the breed I wanted and then 2 others. One which is most likely a Bourbon Red and the other is either a Narragansett or Bronze. Forgot to order so "leader" chicks to show them how to eat and drink. However the feed store had some week olds, 3 pullets labeled as Amarucaunas but are most likely Easter Eggers and 2 white top black Polish. The Polish are going to be a birthday present for a friend.

Tried to do a rain fix on the chick coop yesterday, it held up to the first downpour but was soaked again by the evening. Put more tarps up, and put down pine shavings. At least they are out of the mud. Will try digging a trench this weekend to direct the runoff and muck it out and put dry shavings down again.

Water levels are supposed to crest here today. Hope everyone stays safe and dry.

 

[NickyPick]

My rooster is broody.

Let me tell you, he was giving his girls a good talking to the whole time he was sitting on those eggs.
He went to each nesting box (4 total) and sat on each egg, "lecturing" the hens the whole time!!
LOL

Heh. Mr. Feathers is like that. When I moved all 27 pullets over to the large coop, I put three of the older hens in the smaller coop with Mr. Feathers. The hens would look at the nest boxes, but wouldn't get in (no hay), so Mr. Feathers would climb in, snuggle down and coo at them. It was sooo funny. I put some hay in there and he was the first to jump in and get it all organized in the nice bowl shape the girls like. As soon as he finished, the hens climbed in to lay. His son, Conan (who bullied him out of the big coop) doesn't do stuff like this with the hens. He loves chicks too, so I'm hoping that either he or the older hens will adopt the chicks I have coming mid June. Sure would be nice not to have to mess with a brooder for a change.

 

[Sqwidy]

Hello! Any of y'all in the Austin area? Got a vet who sees chickens who you really like? Thanks!

Ashley

 

[WldFlwrs]

Heh. Mr. Feathers is like that. When I moved all 27 pullets over to the large coop, I put three of the older hens in the smaller coop with Mr. Feathers. The hens would look at the nest boxes, but wouldn't get in (no hay), so Mr. Feathers would climb in, snuggle down and coo at them. It was sooo funny. I put some hay in there and he was the first to jump in and get it all organized in the nice bowl shape the girls like. As soon as he finished, the hens climbed in to lay. His son, Conan (who bullied him out of the big coop) doesn't do stuff like this with the hens. He loves chicks too, so I'm hoping that either he or the older hens will adopt the chicks I have coming mid June. Sure would be nice not to have to mess with a brooder for a change.

I had no idea roosters would cater to their ladies like that LOL

 

[Chicken Ladies]

Working on a quick fix for coop/run area. Put down 3 bags of sand. Ran outta energy gotta go back to work. Have 5 more to go. I'm gonna wait on son to help, he's got more muscles