The Wyandotte Thread

[ChickenFox]

my chicks are almost a month old now, i had some blue laced red in the batch and was wondering if you guys could tell the genders or if they will have decent patterning? one i have hopes for, the rest, im not sure, i think they will be splash.


this one i am most hopeful for. it looks like it has good lacing on all the feathers, im hoping when it grows, it will keep the lacing. however, the only way ill keep it is if its a pullet (i have 5 roosters to my 14 hens and i think thats a good number, i dont want more roos), so heres to hoping its a pullet!


this one looks to have decent patterning, but leaning more towards splash


this one again, looks more splash, lot of light blue, not as much red..


this one has hardly any blue, not holding out much for it..


thanks in advanced!

Can't help you with the quality of the pattern but I just wanted to say they are adorable!

On another note I have a question for you all. I was making breakfast this morning and decided to use my SLW eggs. They're smaller than my RSL and I usually sell the larger eggs and keep the smaller for personal use. Anywho when I went to crack them I had a heck of a time trying to get them open! The shell was so much harder and stronger than my RSL and I thought they had been tough! Is the stronger shell a trait of the wyandotte breed or are my SLW just eating more of the oystershell than my other girls? I'm actually kinda worried that when I try to hatch their eggs next year the chick won't be able to get out. lol

 

[gootziecat]

These are the only 2 bantam dottie chicks that hatched from shipped eggs. Pixs aren't great so hope you can see mama feeding the chick in the second pix. I'll enjoy watching them grow.

 

[delisha]

Chicks have an egg tooth and can get threw some pretty hard shells. The darker my egg shells it seem the harder the shell.

I do not feed oyster shells, I feed the egg shells back to the girls. Its free and I always have them around.

 

[Scott H]

I got a thread started on our broody hen here.....

Been fighting with her for a few days now....I took our fake eggs out of the nesting box immeadiatley when I realized she'd gone broody and set them on our outdoor cooler. The next step was to repeatedly remove her from the nesting box.....then lock her out of the coop. Then she saw her fake eggs .....She had already grabbed one and my wife grabbed her smart phone....

 

[ChickenFox]

I got a thread started on our broody hen here..... Been fighting with her for a few days now....I took our fake eggs out of the nesting box immeadiatley when I realized she'd gone broody and set them on our outdoor cooler. The next step was to repeatedly remove her from the nesting box.....then lock her out of the coop. Then she saw her fake eggs .....She had already grabbed one and my wife grabbed her smart phone....

Says the video is private.

 

[delisha]

will not let me see it either..

 

[Scott H]

I'm sorry....it was tagged private.

Try this....my wife forgot her phone records sound also.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Here are 2 of my boys. Almost 19 weeks now! Boy do they feather SLOWLY!! Not sure if I am going to keep them since I got all roos and no hens! Already culled 3 of them.

 

[blackgum]

nice birds

 

[camocatfish54]

Here is my chocolate wyandotte bantam rooster ( choc gene ) ill get a good pic of my hen tomorrow