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[Fields Mountain Farm]

Me too. If not well I can work with the rangers I have, though these are so much more vigorous, hardy and way faster growing so these would be better to work with. I’m sure if they do well like they are doing mom will buy more, this was a test run after all. I haven’t lost any since I got them. There has only been the one that died in transit and that I find pretty great cause they spent three and a half days in the mail and I’ve had more losses from other places where the chicks only spent two days in the mail.

He’s spectacular! You can’t really see it in the pictures but he’s really broad, he has a really meaty breast.

Sounds great! Im glad they're doin so well for ya!

He looks great in the pics!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

For proper size reference that’s him behind an Australorp hen. He litteraly dwarfs everyone else in the coop including his dad who weighs more. He’s just bigger overall even though he hasn’t filled out all the way.
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Next to his daddy and between two silver laced Wyandottes. (This was about 40 minutes ago)
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Nice!!

 

[dan26552]

Sounds great! Im glad they're doin so well for ya!

He looks great in the pics!

Yeah. So am I. I was not looking forward to another bad batch of meat birds. though I’ve been researching Freedom Hatchery for about 2 years now.

 

[dan26552]

Nice!!

Yeah! He really does fit his name! It was an accident too, I was feeding one night and it just slipped out, I said something along the lines of “Man you’re such a hulking big chicken!” And it just sort of stuck.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Yeah! He really does fit his name! It was an accident too, I was feeding one night and it just slipped out, I said something along the lines of “Man you’re such a hulking big chicken!” And it just sort of stuck.

I have a BCM roo that I started calling Henry... dont know why..
I beleve he thinks hes a parrot tho.. I call him and he flyes up to perch on my arm for a ride to the feed room.

 

[dan26552]

I will admit, I was expecting and prepared for a mostly solid red batch of chicks, I was not expecting such crazy variation in color (though it doesn’t seem to affect their growth!) so that was a very pleasant surprise.
This one is so crazy!

Certainly wasn’t expecting almost black.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I will admit, I was expecting and prepared for a mostly solid red batch of chicks, I was not expecting such crazy variation in color (though it doesn’t seem to affect their growth!) so that was a very pleasant surprise.
This one is so crazy!
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Certainly wasn’t expecting almost black.
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Those are gonna be some pretty birds!

 

[orrpeople]

Musical chicken coops today.
Just moved 6 bantam cochin cockerels out of my main cochin pen, and moved them to a bachelor pen, opened up when I moved the 2 remaining BCM girls in with the CLs (eventual olive eggers! Yay)
I thought I had more young dudes, but couldn’t pick them all out in the dark. Young cockerel combs can be about the same size as older hens. But I’m glad to get a few moved.
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I did the same thing - all my CL'S are in with my Marans and a blue Marans boy (my only Marans that survived the big attack), so I can (hopefully) sex link the olive Eggers because of the barring on the CL hens. We shall see.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I did the same thing - all my CL'S are in with my Marans and a blue Marans boy (my only Marans that survived the big attack), so I can (hopefully) sex link the olive Eggers because of the barring on the CL hens. We shall see.

 

[dan26552]

Those are gonna be some pretty birds!

Yeah! Unfortunately this batch is being processed here so I was looking forward to plain red birds.