well my chickies are 28 weeks old today Besides my dogs, they have been such a joy and quite entertaining..I only have 3 of the 9 laying, probably because of the shorter days, some days I get 3 eggs, some 2 some none.
Anyhow, thought I'd post some recent pics of the girls Masi still occasionally will sneak in the run with me and give them all a lick or two
Thanks for looking
this is Dot
Buff sitting in my lap
Thelma & Buff, this one cracked me up, looks like she's going to say something to Thelma
He's doing very well, thanks for asking. You'd have never known he had so many problems the way he acts now! Hoping to start training classes with him soon once I'm back on track.
What absolutely beautiful birds you have!
I especially love the photo of Thelma and Buff.
I’ve never seen one like Harriet, such gorgeous unique feathers.
Looks like you have a really nice chicken pen.
We rescued a Plymouth Rock rooster once, he was quite the stunning boy and very sweet, too! I loved watching him, petting him, and simply spending time with him. We kept him in our feral cat/foster bedroom for the night before rehoming him with an incredible animal sanctuary. I really hated having to give him up, he’s such a lovely good boy and got along so well with all of our pets.
LOL, I spot a German Shepherd in the last photo! J
Great shots!! They look really good. We are getting about 10 eggs a day now, getting to the point where we are just giving them away to family. LOL Oh and one of Dennis' training clients has Bee Hives so we exchange honey for eggs.
The brown speckled one is a Speckled Sussex. The yellowish one is probably a Buff Orpington, the white one with the black neck feathers looks like a Delaware but the comb is wrong--Brahma maybe? The black ones are likely Australorps, and the black and white one is a silver laced Wyandotte.
Gator, no I don't show them they are just clean chickens)
Yes the brown is a speckled sussex, and freestep your partially right.
the buff is correct, the white/black are silver laced wyandottes, and the white one is a columbian wyandotte and yeppie australorps.
Carolina, I'm doing the same thing, if I don't eat them, family is getting them (eggs that is!)...yours is PRETTY, I'm thinking of adding some barred rocks.
One who mentioned how clean the coop is,,welll I do clean it out daily! My "coop" got demolished in Storm Sandy, (well the majority of my 12 x 20 Dutch Barn that is!) wanted to rebuild but I'm finding it is cheaper to just get a whole new barn prebuilt..
Agreed. They're fairly docile and lay beautiful big brown eggs, as do the RI Reds.
I have a large chicken tractor for mine. I would love to let them free range but with all the dogs.... nope.
I would like to get some Sebrights and Silkies. I think both breeds are gorgeous too but just don't want to rock the boat with my current girls. If any turn out to be a roo...., well my one roo would be none too pleased and I don't have the heart to butcher any.
I'm not sure if it was one of your posts or another's who also owns chickens on this forum but after I saw it I started researching about them and I never realized what amazing pets they make!
We are allowed to have hens here where I live but I'm not sure my backyard is quite big enough(zoning laws require that they have to be a certain distance from houses), plus I have two neighbors right up my butt here, houses are right next our fence so not sure they'd appreciate it... Do hens make an unreasonable amount of noise? Anyways I hope someday to be able to move to the country back to the Midwest or back east... Cali is waaaay to crowded its ridiculous!
Some hens are more talkative than others--some will "announce" every time they lay an egg. "bok bok bok BUCKAWK! BUCKAWK!!" It's not as loud as a dog barking, and to me it isn't terribly annoying, but you know how people are. Some will get perturbed at the most benign-seeming things. Your best bet is to talk to your neighbors and ask them if they would be bothered by clucking hens. If you offer them a dozen eggs every so often, it may help.
I can always tell when someone is wanting to lay an egg, they start squawking, I just say "oh hazel go lay an egg" LOL...and no doesn't annoy me eiter.
They certainly are for the majority of time, very quiet..It's the roosters who are really noisey. I didn't want a rooster, tho I'd love to if I lived in the woods more..
Ordered mine from mypetchicken.com who gets them from Meyer..you can order as little as 3 ..soo even tho you have a small area, you could get a small amount
If I win the coop in the contest I entered, I will get to have my own chickens! Our city just passed a provisional amendment to allow residential areas to have up to six laying hens. I live in one of those uptight covenant controlled communities, so I would be the first to test it by having them. I'm up for that.
If I don't win, well, we'll wait until we get to our place in Colorado to have them.
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