The EE braggers thread!!!

[Flowerbh]

Is your pullet crested?

 

[Flowerbh]

So yesterday I went to put my chickens to bed in their coop. They had been free ranging all day. I marched them thru the garage towards their coop and looked up to see a shadow in the run. I turned around and counted my chickens to see if one of them had gone ahead...no, they were all behind me. So I stopped and really looked into the run and found a bear running around inside!!! My DH and I shoed him, but because the door of the run was between us and the bear, he tried to get out of the sides and back...running frantically all around the run! Climbing all over the roosts, too. Poor bear! I finally got my husband to get out of sight so the bear would come out the door of the run. which it did. He ran off in the woods. This is a clubbed-foot bear we have seen around this part of North GA mountains for several years. He is small for his age. Anyway, today after work, we got home to find that the bear had come back and got into our compost pile behind the coop. It also took off two pieces of stripping from the coop. At least we know that my DH and I built a preditor proof coop! The bear did little damage. Then, later we had a mother and two cubs walk across the yard. Different bears. Hopefully, they will find other territory soon. I think it's funny that I haven't seen a bear since last Sept. and all the sudden they are coming out of the woodwork! I know the bear today had to have traumatized my chickens because that compost pile is behind the coop!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Wow! It's amazing the bear didn't rip up your coop (and chickens)! Your DH must be a talented builder. Maybe a hot wire would be an easy precaution? When we camp in Yosemite, there are pics all over showing how easily the bears can pry open car windows and doors to get food. Looks like a ripped up tin can! Amazingly strong animals.

Hope you and your family and chickens stay safe.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Here is how one of mine has changed...

Butter cup 4 days, then again at two weeks


Butter cup two months

Wow! That chick kind if looks like Tulip when she was young. The only difference was that Tulip had a little bit more solid patten. (chipmunk stripe) and, Tulip was beige, not yellow.

 

[Kassaundra]

Those are some awesome coop building skills!!!!!!

 

[Flowerbh]

Yes, we did a good job on the coop. Used preditor proof hardtack and buried the wire a foot down and 6" out. Then put iron rods 1 foot apart into the ground all the way around so it would be hard to dig under. Then we put big boulder down and then put the dirt back about the bottom. My husband cut his own wood with our sawmill and so it is thick wood. Everything it nailed and screwed so tight I don;t know if we would ever be able to move it if we needed to! But, here in the mountains, we have coyotes, racoons, and bears! So, hopefully everyone stays safe, even my little dogs who will run after the bears and puts terror in our hearts until he comes home safe. We keep him in after 6"30 at night, but this bear came during the day!

 

[Lobzi]

Is your pullet crested?

If you are addressing me, the answer is yes, many of my flock are.
Here is DumplingFirst with her sib. They were just a few days old here.
An today she is about 6 weeks.

Here is another one of my crested EEs


I never knew it was called crested...I always called it a poofy. My first one that I really noticed with it I call Quailie..She looked like a little quail as a baby. My next was a blonde baby. I call her Woodstock because she reminded me of the bird on Charlie Brown.

 

[Flowerbh]

Do you think they have cream leghorn in them?

 

[Lobzi]

I dont know much about most of them. My first I found. His name is Chickie. I was told he may be a mix of brahma and australorp. I got my first hen from which most of them came from a woman with wild chickens on her farm. I have one pure faverolle and one pure Ameraucana but the rest are mixes.

Are cream leghorns crested? I know that my first roo that had a crest was probably a wheaten something due to his coloring. I thought the crest was a growth on his head...I was very worried that he had a tumor.

 

[Flowerbh]

Google cream legbar images. They look alot like yours.