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I got Samuel on video trying to crow after hearing Joel, the head roo. Samuel was Zack's father.

I'm at the auction, doesn't start for another hour. I brought 4 of my 8 week old cockerels. Limey and Dominique cross ⬆️ Blue and Purple bands ⬆️ There's everything here, chicks, ducklings, eggs, ducks, chickens, rabbits, quail, a Tom turkey and even this beauty, a pheasant I believe ⬇️...

He tried to crow this morning :gig

I once found a young possum hanged in bird netting I'd placed over my chicken run. It was not a pretty sight. I use hardware cloth now. We live next to the woods, and while we have coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums in abundance, the only predators I have dispatched are venomous snakes. I even...

This afternoon I took a photo of Zacchaeus, the cockerel I am keeping, and noticed his leg ring looked a little tight. So I headed back outside at dusk with a pair of wire cutters and a new green zip-tie. I was able to locate Zach without my headlamp, he's smaller than the other boys. You...

Last night before it was dark I went out a little earlier than usual for a coop check. The hens were up on the roost...except Martha, back in a nesting box, acting broody. Nope, not happening. So up on the roost she went. The juvies were running around, making lots of noise. When they tried to...

I usually buy 1" grapes. I cut them lengthwise twice (4 pieces), then three times widthwise. It makes twelve pieces per grape. I throw a handful of the bits and watch the stampede! :lol:

Barred Rock?

Me too. The cockerels are 8 weeks old, it's hard to decide which one to keep. The adult feathers aren't in, the personality is not set due to raging hormones, but I cannot keep them any longer. My coop is on the verge of chaos and I have no place to house them. Why did all five have to be...

I haven't yet decided who is going to auction and who isn't, except for the (oops) Dominique cross. In keeping with my Bible names, LC could become Zacchaeus (the wee little man).

That's LC, Little Chick. He was pecked in the head as a 2 day old. I found him limp and unresponsive although he was breathing. My tender heart was stirred, and I put him under my shirt so he could die in comfort. About 10-15 minutes later he started peeping. I gave him back to the broody. He...

I left the brooder doors open today, all day. The latest hatch are doing well, keeping out of the hens' way, but darting in between their legs when I was casting grape bits to the flock. I purposely cut up the fruit into tinier pieces in case any of the littlest ate them. The juvies, aka...

I wasn't prepared for two broodies, I only had one chick feeder, and my galvanized metal waterer base rusted. Today I went to a hardware/farm store and got a chick waterer base and a chick feeder base. I bought a second waterer base at TSC, but all they had were bases with a flower design...

I was fortunate that I had a broody already setting when I got some eggs, and another hen went broody shortly after I put half of the eggs in the incubator. Both appear to have accepted the chicks I placed under them, but the hens had been broody close to the 21 days of incubation.

Chicken Math strikes. In March I had 7 hens. In April I added five chicks. As of today I have added seven more. That's 19...NINETEEN! :th The April chicks are all cockerels :rolleyes: so they'll be headed to the auction, June or July. That will help. Oh, and they're bantams. That also...

Love the pictures, but the expressions in the middle photo are funny!

The door to my hoop coop was getting hard to close, so I raked debris from around the frame and found lots of earthworms. So did my chickens! ;) I tried to get a picture but the hens insisted on checking out the freshly raked soil. I had a bucket of debris, and decided to use it as a side...

Show him the egg size...

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

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...