Whatcha think

[WVBirdsAndBees]

As a photographer and fellow chicken lover, I can confirm that everyone deserves glamour shots - including (especially?) our chickens!

Cutie is a handsome boy and those are great photos. I think I'd have to keep him but I feel your pain on limiting roos. Why are they always the sweetest?! If you're free ranging, it certainly doesn't hurt to have a roo or 2 to help protect the girls as long as you have enough hens and don't mind the crowing.

We have a cream legbar roo and lavender orpington roo in the brooder now but they were intentional. Hoping to hatch some of those breeds and some olive eggers (legbar x black copper marans) next year. Fingers crossed.

 

[Fishfam6]

As a photographer and fellow chicken lover, I can confirm that everyone deserves glamour shots - including (especially?) our chickens!

Cutie is a handsome boy and those are great photos. I think I'd have to keep him but I feel your pain on limiting roos. Why are they always the sweetest?! If you're free ranging, it certainly doesn't hurt to have a roo or 2 to help protect the girls as long as you have enough hens and don't mind the crowing.

We have a cream legbar roo and lavender orpington roo in the brooder now but they were intentional. Hoping to hatch some of those breeds and some olive eggers (legbar x black copper marans) next year. Fingers crossed.

Omgosh thank you!! I love taking pics. It’s so much fun and I love looking at photos! Anytime you want send me some you go right ahead! They don’t even have to be chicken pics lol. We ended up getting six more chickens cause we knew we would be losing the boys. I let my boys pic them out. They ended up picking out two silkies, crested polish, Sussex, light Brahma, and a blue laced red Wyandotte. They are two weeks old.

 

[Silviaschicks]

could also be a cuckoo maran x crevecoeur

 

[WVBirdsAndBees]

Omgosh thank you!! I love taking pics. It’s so much fun and I love looking at photos! Anytime you want send me some you go right ahead! They don’t even have to be chicken pics lol. We ended up getting six more chickens cause we knew we would be losing the boys. I let my boys pic them out. They ended up picking out two silkies, crested polish, Sussex, light Brahma, and a blue laced red Wyandotte. They are two weeks old.

We just moved several states over a few months ago to be closer to my grandparents as they age and it forced me to shut down my photography business. I need to get out the good equipment and have a photo shoot with the girls. I'll def share the results!

Glad you found some chicks to replace the boys! Jealous of the silkies and polish. We have a breeder of show silkies nearby and I really want some. I'm curious how they'd integrate with my big girls. Might have to build them a small coop of their own and get a few. Chicken math lol It never stops. Because 35 just isn't enough.

 

[WVBirdsAndBees]

Crevecoeurs are so cool. On my chicken bucket list.

But I think they're white layers. To get an olive egger, you need to cross a dark brown layer (Welsummer, Marans, etc) and a blue layer (Auracana, Cream Legbar etc).

I'd love to to see what some crevecoeurs crosses would look like though!

 

[Fishfam6]

We just moved several states over a few months ago to be closer to my grandparents as they age and it forced me to shut down my photography business. I need to get out the good equipment and have a photo shoot with the girls. I'll def share the results!

Glad you found some chicks to replace the boys! Jealous of the silkies and polish. We have a breeder of show silkies nearby and I really want some. I'm curious how they'd integrate with my big girls. Might have to build them a small coop of their own and get a few. Chicken math lol It never stops. Because 35 just isn't enough.

Here is a pic of my new line up I know we probably have a boy on here as two breeds were straight runs, but they are so CUTE I think our white silkie is a boy. It’s much larger than the black silkie. The polish I can’t tell. The rest I believe are hens We moved them out of their tub into the portable crib. One already flew out! My other ones didn’t do that until 3.5 weeks. Ugh

question for ya, what do you do with all the eggs from 35 chickens???? Oml!!! So many eggs!
I highly recommend the silkies. They are so sweet!!! My son holds his all the time and it just lays there.

 

[WVBirdsAndBees]

They are adorable. Definitely going to have to get a few silkies at some point. I know they're notoriously difficult to sex so who knows, maybe neither of yours is a roo. That polish is ridiculously cute as well!

Funny you say that about them flying out. Like yours, our last group of chicks didn't start escaping our small brooder until 3 or 4 weeks. The group in it now are already escaping at 2. Time to move to the big brooder already. It's wild how each group (and even chick) are different. We've been debating why they've developed more quickly. So far my best guesses are we picked them up instead of having them shipped and changed from a heat lamp to a heat plate. But they're also from a different place so may just be better quality birds?

Good question! The easy answer is we give some eggs to family, eat a lot of them (baking and breakfast), and sell what's left. But most of the 35 aren't laying yet and about half will be breeders. So we'll hatch some and eat some from the breeders. The rest will be layers and their eggs will be for family or for sale.

Basically, 35 chickens is what happens when you have some layers but aren't sure what you want to breed. So you buy a rare assortment to see what the family likes and nobody can agree, resulting in buying more of 3 breeds instead of 1.

 

[Silviaschicks]

Here is a pic of my new line up I know we probably have a boy on here as two breeds were straight runs, but they are so CUTE I think our white silkie is a boy. It’s much larger than the black silkie. The polish I can’t tell. The rest I believe are hens We moved them out of their tub into the portable crib. One already flew out! My other ones didn’t do that until 3.5 weeks. Ugh

question for ya, what do you do with all the eggs from 35 chickens???? Oml!!! So many eggs!
I highly recommend the silkies. They are so sweet!!! My son holds his all the time and it just lays there.

My chicks fly out all of the time, I put a box side around their area to block them from leaving. with that many eggs, you could give some to neighbors and eat/cook the rest. Also you could feed them scrambled to your chicks for nutrition. The silkies will be at the bottom of the pecking order and may get bullied when they are grown up, and they tend to go broody quite a bit. The polish, however, will stay sweet and sit in your hand (like the silkie does now) its whole life

 

[Fishfam6]

My chicks fly out all of the time, I put a box side around their area to block them from leaving. with that many eggs, you could give some to neighbors and eat/cook the rest. Also you could feed them scrambled to your chicks for nutrition. The silkies will be at the bottom of the pecking order and may get bullied when they are grown up, and they tend to go broody quite a bit. The polish, however, will stay sweet and sit in your hand (like the silkie does now) its whole life

Aaawwwwww I hope they let us cuddle them forever! We got them as more of a pet than layers. I’m going to have to get a picture of my oldest son. He goes down and sits in the run with the chickens and they all come and sit on his lap. We spoiled the poop out of them. We will definitely keep an eye on the silkies if they get picked on too much I’ll get them a new pin.... and more silkies! Our polish is so funny when you hold it, it falls asleep in your hand! It had pasty butt and fell asleep while I was washing it’s bum. I didn’t know chickens would be so much fun. A lot of work, but fun.

 

[Fishfam6]

They are adorable. Definitely going to have to get a few silkies at some point. I know they're notoriously difficult to sex so who knows, maybe neither of yours is a roo. That polish is ridiculously cute as well!

Funny you say that about them flying out. Like yours, our last group of chicks didn't start escaping our small brooder until 3 or 4 weeks. The group in it now are already escaping at 2. Time to move to the big brooder already. It's wild how each group (and even chick) are different. We've been debating why they've developed more quickly. So far my best guesses are we picked them up instead of having them shipped and changed from a heat lamp to a heat plate. But they're also from a different place so may just be better quality birds?

Good question! The easy answer is we give some eggs to family, eat a lot of them (baking and breakfast), and sell what's left. But most of the 35 aren't laying yet and about half will be breeders. So we'll hatch some and eat some from the breeders. The rest will be layers and their eggs will be for family or for sale.

Basically, 35 chickens is what happens when you have some layers but aren't sure what you want to breed. So you buy a rare assortment to see what the family likes and nobody can agree, resulting in buying more of 3 breeds instead of 1.

Omgosh that’s so funny
We ended up getting the polish because one of my sons came with us and he wouldn’t leave without one lol. My other son picked the silkies because he said if he had to get rid of his rooster then he wanted a super fluffy nice one. He’s six lol. The feed store had a lot of varieties to choose from too! They get about 500 chicks a week! The silkies we got were the last two and had to be sold together. So I went to the feed store to get three or four more and ended up with 6