Who else got some 2013 chicks?!

[leemamahen]

I didn't think I was going to be able to get any Americaunas but just got a surprise phone call from a local store saying they may have some extras that I could buy! Waiting for a call back to see for sure.

 

[3KewlChix]

how can i tell if i have roos or hen?? both beebs and salsa are getting spur bumps,growing combs and footboxing at 8days. are they both male? the breed is amber star both are very light yellow white and wing and tails are coming in tan

 

[gimmie birdies]

hens can get spur bumps but they don't get bigger. guys have nips.

 

[3KewlChix]

gimmebirdies what do you mean nips? i am assuming your meaning something with the spurs? both have rounded feathers coming in and heard that means hen? behaviour seems more roo to me though no crowing. they make this twittering call and normal peepy chirps what is that twitter mean?

 

[gimmie birdies]

hehe I was kidding around guys have nipples which are useless, hens have spur bumps whick don't develop spurs, but if a hen gets old she might develop spurs.

 

[Buxton Ducks]

Just picked them up at the feed store today! 5 Porcelain D'Uccles and 5 Mixed Cochin Bantams



Got my ducks a week ago, they grow so quick: 2 Snowy Mallards and 2 Rouens

 

[Toshi]

I got more too!
2 Arucannas (sp)
Not sure what to name this one just yet.

This white/black one is Cheeks.
I was happy when i got these guys, last time i got to the feed store to get them, a lady came in five minutes before me and bought them all! So this morning (I knew they were coming in, only i knew and the staff knew of the feed store, they were kind of a surprise!) I got first pick out of 25!

So their legs are not blue, so i guess they are true Arracana's?
Will they lay Blue eggs mainly? Or green? Or any other color egg?


My RIR Katniss, she is being all cute

Effie my GLW, and someone's butt, i think it's Rue's butt...not sure lol.

These are my new chicks!

 

[aaronri]

Nice! Some fine looking birds everyone! Mine are getting BIG. I shot this last night, they are almost six weeks old (And in their new coop!):

 

[kemclaughlin]

Cute chicks! Is your waterer just a 5 gallon bucket with poultry nipples in the bottom? How do they do with that?

It's a two gallon bucket waterer. We got it at our local feed store, but the brand is all-bout-chickens brand. They do great with it. Some of them were used to it already from the feed store, but the ones who didn't seem to get it, I tapped on the bottom like a mama hen and they figured it out really fast.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Im waiting on a goose to set. I have 18 eggs in one nest. Im hoping one of them sets any day. I have 10 duck eggs in a nest and waiting on a duck to set. I have 20 or so duck eggs in an incubator and am adding chicken eggs this week so they hatch around the same time. I have 41 Buff Orpingtons eggs in an incubator. I have 78+ Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs coming from 4 different breeders to fill two more incubators. Im going to let my broody hens set whenever they decide to. My hands will be full for a few months, I plan on eating most of the roosters.