New babies broke loose today. 10 out of 13 hatched. I hope to get pics tomorrow. We have put 6 in the brooder tonight and the remaining four are staying in the incubator until completely fluffed.
Now that the yellow/red birds are a month old clearly 9 of the 10 sold to use as Buff Orpington are not. They are red (not RIR). Either Rural King mixed up their signs or they came labeled incorrectly. 1 of the hens is a BORP. I will try to get a picture of the natures chicks and maybe...
Here is one of two Araucana chicks we bought over a week ago. It is has feathers on its cheeks.. They are getting more prominent. The second chick does not have them. We have one fertile Araucana egg with Sulverudd Blue eggs. Hopefully we end up with hens and roo. If not we know where to...
Our additional chicks came today. 11 Barred Rocks, and a total of 25 mix of Cream Legbars and Welsummer. We received 2 extra and it looks like Roos which is fine. This is just the barred rocks which we added to the brooder that had two Araucana chicks. Most are under the heat plate. Now we...
We are buying chicks. Our Welsummer’s we had years ago came from Deer Run Farms in Emmitsbutg, MD. They were excellent. I do not know if the ones we are getting tomorrow will be as good. We ordered them last week and found out Deer Run had theirs on sale after placing the order. Would loved...
We have Welsummers coming on Wednesday along with Barred Rocks and Cream Legbars. We are curious about breeding Welaummer Roos which we are getting to over Barred Rock hens (Welbar) to make auto sexes chicks. That is awhile down the road though.
10 Buff Orpington and 10 Speckled Sussex. They are uncooperative for the camera. And. It ready for their close up. These were about 1 week old when we picked them up. Boy do the kids grow up fast though. The buffs have most feathers and the Sussex still have some fluff. More chicks joining...