The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Leahs Mom]

The jury is out for me on the BRs. I have 2 hatchery BRs and I call one of them "Atilla"! She was just mean to everyone in general, but has kind-of tempered a bit. They look like they'd have a good amt of meat if I ever wanted to butcher, though!

 

[Bulldogma]

My flock currently consists of:

Adults:
1 Swedish Flower Hen Rooster
3 SFH Hens
1 Dark Cornish Rooster
4 DC Hens
1 Bantam Cochin Rooster
1 Bantam Cochin Hen
2 Silkie Hens

Adolescent Chickens:
4 Production Red
3 Heritage RIR
2 SFH cockerels
2 Silkie/Cochin X
1 Orpington X cockerel
1 EE/Dorking X
1 DC/BR X

Chicks:
11 SFH chicks of varied ages

Incubating:
SFH
DC
(I'll sell most/all of these chicks at an upcoming BIG swap in VA)

 

[armorfirelady]

My little flock consists of:
4 Partridge Rocks

My new pullets will be: (month or so)
2 Black copper Marans
1 Easter Egger
1 Columbia Rock

 

[Leahs Mom]

I have:

All 1 YO:
2 Hatchery Barred Rock Hens
2 Hatchery RIR Hens
2 Hatchery Araucana Hens (Who really aren't Araucana at all, I hear!

)

16 Week Olds:
2 Swedish Flower Pullets
1 Swedish Flower Cockerell
1 Black Mystery Pullet


Coming in June:
-Some Hopefully Dark Gray and Black SFH Chicks
-Some Cream Legbars

AND ONE MORE HEN HOUSE!

(I DO have horse trailer hen house envy...the one I looked at wasn't BIG enough...BIGGER IS BETTER!)

 

[delisha]

OK I suck at pictures but I also wanted to post pictures of my Partridge Silkie. I am pretty sure it is a male. Even thought it is much younger than my first one this one has a comb already visible.




Nice short back

February Ameracuana I am pretty sure this is a pullet

Only picture I captured 3 of the younger ones

February pullet

I think the one on the right is a cockerel it is the only one with pink in the comb

I think this is also a pullet

Cockerel I am thinking

 

[kian]

I have:

2) 35 week old New Hampshires
2) 35 week old Cuckoo Marans

2) 30 week old New Hampshires

2)11 week old Silver Laced Wyandottes
2)11 week old white Easter Eggers


And the broody is sitting on 8 Olive Eggers which are Ameraucana x French Copper Marans

 

[kian]

OK I suck at pictures but I also wanted to post pictures of my Partridge Silkie. I am pretty sure it is a male. Even thought it is much younger than my first one this one has a comb already visible.




Nice short back

February Ameracuana I am pretty sure this is a pullet

Only picture I captured 3 of the younger ones

February pullet

I think the one on the right is a cockerel it is the only one with pink in the comb

I think this is also a pullet

Cockerel I am thinking

I LOVE the color of your Ameraucanas!! Beautiful birds!

 

[camilleathome]

My flock consists of

2 silkies
3 Chanteclerc chicks
15 Rhode Island red chicks

Next month i also have the following chicks coming
10 Chanteclercs
10 sicilian buttercups
10 blue autstralorp
10 easter eggers
10 Mottled Houdans

That way I can be guarenteed some hens and have a few roosters to eat at some point and a few to keep for breeding.

 

[Shan30]

I'm sure someone else already responded but I had one.  I cut a bandaid length ways and wrapped in around and fastened it onto itself leaving the part with the cloth in the middle. I didn't do it terribly close for a day (By day 2 I had the legs about an inch - inch and a half apart) then I removed them every night and rubbed the little legs and replaced it.  After 3 nights I changed to a vet wrap and it was so much easier. By 5 days I noticed the wrap was off and he was walking find.  It was amazing how well he walked with the bandaid/vet wrap on.  (At 3 nights it was still splayed)  (He's been fine ever since)  sue

Thanks! I don't think I'll need to do anything for this little one however. My DH and I were going to last night and couldn't tell which of the blues it was and there are only 6. So she's obviously improving on her own! Yay!

Our crazy flock:

1 Blue Amerecauna
2 Araucanas
1 Barred Rock(who just started lying again after losing an eye in a hawk attack)
2 Easter Eggers
2 Dark cornish(who don't lay at all)
1 Chantecler
1 Mottled Leghorn
1 Frizzle Rooster
1 Black Silkie
1 Red-Brown Amerecauna Rooster
1 Random White Bantam
7 X-Battery ISA Browns
6 Blue Amerecauna Chicks
10 Black Amerecauna Chicks
2 Amerecauna Chicks that may go blue or black
6 Black Silkie Chicks
2 Silver Laced Polish around 3 months
1 Random Yellow Mutt Chick

I think thats all...

Wait no 1 Buff Orpington

 

[NanaLynn]

I currently have 13 hens and they are 10 weeks old:

1 White Leghorn
1 Buff Orpington
2 Rhode Island Red
3 Barred Rocks
1 Silver Laced Wyandotte
2 Easter Eggers
1 Columbian Wyandotte
1 Dominque
1 Blue Cochin

Next week I am getting 9 more new chicks, hopefully all pullets:
1 Black Australorp
1 Golden Laced Polish
1 Light Brown Leghorn
1 Welsummer
1 White Rock
1 Salmon Faverolle
1 Golden Lakenvelder
1 Golden Laced Wyandotte
1 Surprise Chick