For the love of chickens

[Mee]

Oh no!! One of my chicks was hatched on the Dark Side!

Darth Maul

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Darth Chick

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Actually it's a very sweet chick. I'm sure once it's feathers come in it will become a good Jedi chick.

Pretty!

 

[RVA21]

Oh no!! One of my chicks was hatched on the Dark Side!

Darth Maul

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Darth Chick

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Actually it's a very sweet chick. I'm sure once it's feathers come in it will become a good Jedi chick.

I think my heart just melted, what a cute chick ?

 

[Mee]

First egg from a new hen - a white! The other white is looking distinctly not girly. :/ remember me saying I didn’t want a boy????

 

[DharmaGirl]

I just sold 7 roosters, 4 hens and 10 chicks. I must not be charging enough because I usually have to give away roosters. Now I only my laying flock of 34, 5 chicks, which I'm keeping, 3 more hens that are sold but not paid for and 33 eggs, with at least 2 dozen more coming in May. Plus I bid on some on eBay. People are going crazy. I made sure the gal had my number, and the setup for the chicks. Yikes, it's quiet.

 

[ms spock]

I put together a broody coop for Doris, the lead hen, without her supervision, and she was in a snit about that and refused to use it for her babies. She likes to lecture, and will do that for up to 15 minutes at a time, and if you try to say anything, she just gets louder. She's pretty funny.

That's hilarious! I LOLed

 

[DharmaGirl]

Hatched a new lavender orpington today. I hope it is the opposite sex of the one I hatched a month ago. Eggs are due to hatch all week, but I replaced my dying incubator with a crappy one. Not on purpose, so when I finally get my stimulus check I will buy another one like the one that lasted 4 years.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Today we have 2 new babies. First the one from yesterday, looking pretty:


Then the birchen marans that just hatched this morning:
She's not dry yet. The third is under the broody hen and I'm not picking her up when her eggs are hatching. She was screaming at me. I don't blame her, I'd scream at her if she tried to steal my baby.

 

[ladee]

Thanks for sharing some great Chicken Joy DG! We need a break from the drama in the world, gloom and doom. Seeing new babies are just what we needed.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I couldn't help myself. I stopped breeding Polish chickens and I've been sorry ever since. LilMr.M was a beautiful rooster. I just ordered 10 Polish chicks, 8 girls and 2 boys. I'm moving out to the country so I will have 2 1/2 acres to play. And breed chickens!!

 

[Rose White]

Chickens and turkeys I take care of at the school where I work. The chickens came from a donor with a flock of about 30. Little White is a Leghorn (probably) and Pineapple is a rare Cream Legbar, who was likely given up because she lays olive eggs instead of the coveted blue. Little White might have been donated because her voice sounds like a dying velociraptor’s. They have both tamed down and now “salute” for pretty much anyone who enters the coop. Watching them all forage together (5 chickens and 3 turkeys) is so soothing to me.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Watching them all forage together (5 chickens and 3 turkeys) is so soothing to me.

Isn't it wonderful! Pretty birds! I love going out in the afternoon to talk to my girls and watch the babies play. They are adorable!

 

[Rose White]

This is Nugget, a Cochin. She first started going broody when she was 3 months old and has laid only a handful of eggs in her five years of life. She has incredible stamina for nesting, we’re going on about three months now. I asked her when she was going to join the others and her response was, “Never ever ever.” Reminds me of my own isolation! Lol.