Wyandottes

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Just wondering, who all has wyandottes? What colors do you have?
We have wyandotte bantams in black, white, dun, silver laced, blue laced red and soon buff. I also plan on getting dun laced and dun barred. One of my goals is to get dun and dun laced colors into standard size wyandottes.

 

[CarriBrown]

These are my little monsters, Hotwing and Nugget. They are both BLRWs. This was taken a couple weeks ago. They are now outside in a chicken tractor and hating every minute of it!! Spoiled little things...

 

[pansophia]

I just got two Wyandottes, a silver laced and a gold laced.

 

[seedcorn]

Partridge wyandotte bantams.....eggs in incubator, hopefully they'll hatch, not enuf nerve to candle them since they are on day 12, should.......

 

[cookinmom]

I have 2 silver laced pullets, standard size. They're 8 weeks old, so they don't have their adult feathers yet.

 

[Picco]

I have two standard silver laced hens that are about nine years old. Their names are Lotty and Dotty. I have twenty blue laced red chicks that should arrive in June. I can't wait. Wyandottes are a great breed. Please post pics of the dun barred and dun laced, they sound beautiful.

 

[michellerene]

Nine?! My goodness-- those are some mature ladies!

Do they lay at all any more?

 

[Picco]

Yep, they still lay alright. Probably 2 or 3 eggs a week, maybe more in spring/summer. They might might be a little younger. I've had them for six years and they were two or three when I got them (previous owner couldn't remember how long she had them). But 8 is still pretty old. The easter egger in the pic (Judy) is old too but still lays very well. I got her as an adult too and have had her for 6 years. I get about 4 eggs a week from her. Many people don't believe me when I say my hens still lay at nine years old. They have lived stress free lives and are fed a good diet. The are never bothered by a rooster and have free access to my large, fenced back yard.

 

[AccidentalFarm]

Picco- do you feed a 'special' diet, or just a good brand feed? Organic? I'd love to know my ladies will still be around here keeping me company well after my kids are off to college.

 

[chickenfeathers]

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Nice "girls".

Just wondering what color eggs Judy lays?

May they live a long, long time!