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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...

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...

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Well? The one you mentioned is one of the two sitting on the left side of this photo. :confused:

The chicks are getting SO big... :love Wish I could keep them, but it appears all five are cockerels...

Thanks, but I am fairly certain they're boys. And all of them have yellow shanks, a non-Standard trait for Speckled Sussex, so I don't want to keep any of them for future breeding. Bummer. I have 12 more eggs incubating: 6 under broody Tamar and 6 in an incubator. I'm hoping some will turn out...

The chicks were mixing it up with the hens when I brought tomato bits to the run today. But I think all five are boys :he :barnie

I put zip-ties on the chicks, and refer to them by their zip-tie color until I am sure they're staying. Then I name them.

The Baleful Glares! :gig