What did you do with your flock today?

[PopoMyers]

Well today I chatted with my chickens while I was planting flowers and tomatoes. We have our daily conversations.

Welcome to this thread as we are a fun, and sometimes serious group who loves to share life and chicken raising adventures, support each other through hardships, and laugh together, sometimes at each other. Chicken math is a serious subject. One equation not included should be that all named chickens smaller than standard count as one mini. How old are the chicks? Pictures, please?

 

[fuzzi]

They are beautiful and growing up so fast. Only time will tell. Do these get the sharp hackle and saddle feathers? What will you do with all these roos?

They will go to a local auction when they get feisty. I got $5-10 each last year for six 3-month-old cockerels and another one sold a few weeks later for $30.

I don't think they were purchased for soup... bantams aren't very big!

But they sure were pretty! (May 2023)

The two I kept:

Joel (right) was a good roo. He had a seizure and died in January
Samuel (left) started attacking chicks and was culled.

 

[ValerieJ]

I had the duty of closing in the chickens last night as DH was away for the evening. I had to herd the 2 mo old chicks into the pen. Oh gosh, they are just so cute. Like toddlers who don't want to go to bed. They did not go all the way in the coop while I was out there but just the outdoor portion of it. They were still running around and playing at dusk. Wish I had my camera with me. If I do it tonight I'll take a picture. I think this is my favorite age for chicks. They are so curious and full of life.

 

[fuzzi]

I had the duty of closing in the chickens last night as DH was away for the evening. I had to herd the 2 mo old chicks into the pen. Oh gosh, they are just so cute. Like toddlers who don't want to go to bed. They did not go all the way in the coop while I was out there but just the outdoor portion of it. They were still running around and playing at dusk. Wish I had my camera with me. If I do it tonight I'll take a picture. I think this is my favorite age for chicks. They are so curious and full of life.

Mine will be 6 weeks old on Monday...and I agree, they are cute. They're like a little gang.

Blue band took a wild strawberry from my fingers today, first time!

Purple band left, blue band front, LC right rear ("Little Chick"). One of my hens, Rahab, had similar black coloring on the neck when she was a juvenile.

 

[Shetland lover]

Well today I chatted with my chickens while I was planting flowers and tomatoes. We have our daily conversations.

I talk to my chickens too. It's the only sensible conversation I get all day. Not sure they feel the same way, given how they side eye me sometimes

 

[Shetland lover]

Mine will be 6 weeks old on Monday...and I agree, they are cute. They're like a little gang.

Blue band took a wild strawberry from my fingers today, first time!
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Purple band left, blue band front, LC right rear ("Little Chick"). One of my hens, Rahab, had similar black coloring on the neck when she was a juvenile.

So pretty! Blue band looks almost like a hawk in that pose with those markings!

 

[Shetland lover]

Welcome to this thread as we are a fun, and sometimes serious group who loves to share life and chicken raising adventures, support each other through hardships, and laugh together, sometimes at each other. Chicken math is a serious subject. One equation not included should be that all named chickens smaller than standard count as one mini. How old are the chicks? Pictures, please?

Can you convince my DH that my 4 bantams only count as half a chicken each, please? He doesn't believe me when I tell him that

 

[fuzzi]

So pretty! Blue band looks almost like a hawk in that pose with those markings!

Blue band has not developed red wattles like the others, yet...I'm hoping she's a pullet.

The one in the middle

 

[fuzzi]

Can you convince my DH that my 4 bantams only count as half a chicken each, please? He doesn't believe me when I tell him that

Show him the egg size...

 

[Shetland lover]

Blue band has not developed red wattles like the others, yet...I'm hoping she's a pullet.
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The one in the middle

Ooh, looks like you may be lucky! Don't take my word for it though, I'm notoriously bad at sexing young birds