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[AriLovesChickens]

I'm starting to wonder if Meyer screwed up on my chick order. There were three yellow chicks and one red one. I figured the red one would be the Buckeye, since it's dark red, and one of the yellow ones would be the New Hampshire red (dark but lighter than the Buckeye). The other yellow ones are the BO and Delaware. Well, the two that aren't the Delaware (getting white feathers) look the same. Surely a NHR wouldn't be as light as a BO?

I tried giving them crickets today. The Dominique got most of them. Several of the chicks never even saw the crickets. Next time, I need to get bigger, darker ones. I also tried giving them mealworms. Only a couple of chicks were daring enough to come to me, and then of course those same ones ran up and snatched the worms before I could give them to anyone else.

 

[Illia]

Orpingtons have pink/white legs, New Hampshires have yellow legs.

Nothing else really matters, since hatchery quality throws so many "variations" and shades of color, and the body type will end up the same.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

If they have different colored legs, it's very subtle.

 

[pongoid]

I was gifted an 8 month old male black runner and a 2 yr old black runner/muscovy male to socialize my black runner female.
I think I will get one more female and then i will be done.
Not sure if I will dabble in incubating.

 

[Kaneke]

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my take on that? try giving them cooked spaghetti -- particularly if you can get whole-wheat spaghetti

mine seemed to go crazy for anything "long and stringy", from the very earliest ... but you can make enough spaghetti that even the shyest ones will have the opportunity to get some

 

[Stumpfarmer]

*sigh*

Well, it's going to be six of Kaneke's EEs and one of Sylvia's eggs: she did lay one today, but Ian had kicked it under the plastic hardware cloth ground baffle on the chicken tractor, and we broke it when we moved them just now.

POO!

 

[AriLovesChickens]

The master cricket catcher:

Gratuitous chick pic:

The red chick:

Yellow chick #1:

Yellow chick #2 - wouldn't look at me:

 

[Kaneke]

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that's too bad ... I have lusted after Wyandottes at times myself ... but I've been really happy with the EEs I got

 

[Stumpfarmer]

On the up side, we have taken a bit of time off from the infinitely prolonged Wyandotte coop project (after making some teeny incremental progress on it, though) and started the framing for the Hamburg Extension University, which I needed to do so that I could figure out the way it's going to be covered.

So, yeah: things are getting did.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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that's too bad ... I have lusted after Wyandottes at times myself ... but I've been really happy with the EEs I got

I need to get in touch with the junior chicken whisperer to see if he has a small incubator I can borrow to incubate the rest of the eggs: the people up the hill are all overwhelmed with soccer season.