with this face...
Question about Barred rocks
and the bottoms of her black feet.
Shoot! I am sorry Tracey!! I thought I was on my own thread! While I was bopping back and forth, I noticed your sweet little boy in the top frame!
Okay! Got It!!!! Now I'm going to get a bunch of Rocks , a Sharpie, and a writing Primer, and head out to the chicken coop! I always wanted to label my Daylilies! Why not just let the Chickens do it!!!!! LOL!!!!
Ok, definately not Australorps. Sorry
LOL and Darn! But thank you broncbuster!
Badseed, have you tried going to www.feathersite.com, where there are multiple photos of all the breeds of chickens? I think you'd find that more useful than the Henderson chart.
Are you saying some of your chickens are rumpless like Araucana? I have one brown leghorn hen that is rumpless except she has two tail feathers that grow out and down. Very funny looking chicken.
http://www.yp-connect.net/~poultry/id109.htm (scroll down to see their rumpless rumps)
Thanks hart! I've been all over looking at pics and I think it just confuses me farther. LOL About the time I think I have one figured out, I find another site that has slightly different info. Grrrrr.
The all black second bird with the black legs looks like a sumatra
even the feet look sumatraish except they are suppose to be yellow
The hens sometime are not yellow when laying
but a pullet should be yellow
If any of mine don't have yellow they get sold
but for pet quality the yellow doesent matter
I'll take some pictures
the leggs that you showed for the first one
(that you said were feet....
that color leg is called willow
and if it has like a cushion butt it may be a wynadotte
Hi all KB said to give the first egg to NB for breakfest.Then let them sit on 2 eggs only..
Tracey
So how was the first egg? We are still waiting for ours. :)
The egg was eaten by NB he said he loved it and Only one hen is laying right know and it's only one egg a day...
Hay you can all ways talk here because I read everything and
look back and LOLOLOLO... All we are is stand up comices here...
LOLOLO..
Tracey
Great news about the egg. I can't wait until we get some!
And I am LOL about you LOL. I really felt bad for stomping all over your post. :)
Anybody know where Tracey has been ??
She's usually here often, hope all is ok !!
Julie
hi every one Summer is here and had to take NB fishing and school shopping.. Two hens where killed by foxes at 8:45 am
on monday 6,07 the rooster and one laying hen is lefted...
I'm going to hatch some under my hen soon..
Tracey
Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww thats a bummer Tracey !! Sorry about the hens. I wondered where you were.
Good luck with hatching babies!!
Julie
Julie, NB got a 40 pound catfish and we are eating it to night yumm!!! See you all later. Tammy my hen is laying in 100'f temps
and it will be like this for another week I hope for rain soon...
Tracey
Tracey, have you all considered putting in a better fence and making sure your coop is secure too?
If they were free ranging, well, I think that's a great idea in theory and not so great for the chickens in practice unless you manage to find a place where there are no predators. I had to learn that lesson the hard way with my last flock.
Hart, no they both free range in the day time and are safe at night .. NB my son and I are all ways watching them and he see them mate and said they are doing the chicken dance on their heads..LOLOLOLO...
Tracey
Tracey what Hart was trying to tell is that free ranging is great, if you don't have anything around that will kill your chickens, since two were killed by foxes and you lost the others before do you really think you should be free-ranging them? Aren't you afraid you will lose them to the fox?
I don't know anyone who has successfully free ranged their chickens with no protection when they're free ranging. (If you buy free range eggs, by the way, it only means that they have had access to outside, not that they're roaming around on the loose.)
My next door neighbor had the prettiest flock of chickens earlier this year and was allowing them to roam all day. Then one day, there were none. That's what happened to my first flock too when I stupidly tried to free range.
I guess what I'm saying is that it would save you and your children a lot of heartache, not to mention the poor chickens, if you just look at your setup and make whatever changes are needed to stop the chicken killings.
amen.
We were freeranging, but a fox came and gobbled up one of the gals and I can't blame him. Chickens are meals on legs and when I freerange mine I always take into account that they are part of the food chain. It's just not worth the heartache and the loss of life!
Since that episode, I keep my girls in a pen unless I am outside and it is about 30 minutes before they go to bed. They like the quick run around, it gives me a good excuse to do nothing but watch them for 30 minutes.
We have lots of chickens around here, and I make sure that mine are not the most accessible ones in the neighborhood :)
Yep! I give mine a 1 hour run for the money every night before dark! I let them out for longer periods if Im able to watch them that long! So as I clean an water them in the evening they know they can free range!
I only let the flightier of my japanese Bantams range all day! That is a crew of 6 that are so well adapted to taking flight and into the trees they go at a drop of a hat,or hawks feather!
Yep, me too. In the evening when I get home from work they get to pop out to scratch around.
I fill the feeders and change the water and sit on the picnic table and watch them for a bit before it's time for them to be in for the night.
On the weekends they get out longer assuming I'm home for the day and plan to be outside most of it.
Julie
I am home all day most days. No one in my nieghborhood (regular houses and lots of dairy farms) has seen anything in years, no skunks no raccoons no fox. We do hear coyotes and have the usual hawks. There are a lot of wild turkeys, partridge here so I am under the impression that the predator level is low. I still only let mine out when I can watch them. They do get out a lot since I am here a lot and I always doing something in the yard. I have lost a couple to Monty my cat, that was my fault and the lil ones, banties are no longer to leave the pen, only marans, turkeys and guineas are allowed to really free range.
My cats have a look of fear when the turkeys are out....lol. It's those big feet, they stomp everything in their path it seems like.
Julie
Yah mine don't care for the turks either, its those cute lil sebrights that Monty LOVES. Those turks have trampled what they didn't eat of my flower garden.They are even clearing the field beside the pen, you can really tell where they have been. Its funny when one of dogs goes into the pen (if I leave the bulkhead door open) they won't go past a full size chicken, guinea or turk. And don't worry, they are chicken lovers and the turkeys out weigh them already!!
I am putting up one of those decorative fences next year so I can atleast see my iris' bloom!
Wow, I thought I was the only one suffering from "Sasquach Turkey" syndrome. I have three bronze that we've been calling Turkzillas. They go through my garden like Godzilla through Tokyo. I try to keep them in their pasture, but I still have the young Narragansetss running around. They walked through the mud from the sprinkler and it looked like little dinosaur footprints all over the deck.
The worst part of all of them is that they seem obsessed with pecking at every mole and freckle on my legs!
Turkzillas! I think you just coined a phrase! LOVE IT! I am going to use it! They don't care about what they are stepping on, the just walk, the step on chickens, other turks doesn't matter, its like having a feathered moose, they just go and its doesn't matter what it in thier path!
All my birds are in the back half acre of my place enclose by a 5' horsewire fence, so they have plenty of roaming space. They get all they need out there and all I feed them is table scraps and an occasional handful of scratch. They are very healthy and their feathers are in great shape. The chickens roost in the henhouse and the turkeys and guineas roost in the trees. I do have one chicken that just hatched 6 babies and is outside the enclosure, but she hasn't lost one yet and they're 2wks old, now. At night she brings them in the garage and I put her and the chicks in a terrarium with a top. Here she is with her babies:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3805025
I let them run when I am watching them for about half of the day
when I'm out with them..
And only time I lose one or 2 is when I run in to use the bathroom..
But my son watches them now when I have to have a potty brake...
Tracey