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Show your girls and guys!

Here are my RIR's (19)! Hatched September 25th, 2011. Today I got my first two eggs! I've had chickens since I was 20, even had two laying hens in my historic downtown apartment when I was in college! Spring 2010 I was out of town for two days and there was a horrible uncommon gnat outbreak. I lost my three laying hens. So now with an improved coop, and yard we are BACK in business! Please post your eggers! We just love ours!!





I have a running contest with my Co-op friend Mary to see who can keep their hens laying the longest. So far I'm the winner, hint it's all about fresh clover! Keep it a secret! LOL!
 
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#829 ·
Here is my dark brahma roo just a week or two older than yours in the pic - mine has yellow shanks and is already showing a green/black/white pattern.

Vertebrate Chicken Bird Beak Galliformes



Are you sure you don't have a black chochin? The cochins have dark shanks and they are huge birds. Just something else to taunt you right when you think you have them figured out - :-p:D
 
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A couple not so good pictures(I need a new SD card for my camera) of my little girls, Foxy(Silkie) and Willow(EE). They've started becoming more adventurous and are now scavenging the horse paddocks. They sometimes follow me around while I clean the boys' paddock and attack each other for the horse's feed in the next paddock over. They're so goofy.
 

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#835 ·
I have some chook pics I took this past weekend, so of course I'm more than willing to share! :-p
 

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We finally moved the chicks to the outdoor pen! They have grown so much since I got them. I've found that my Barred Rocks and Ameraucana have very quirky personalities :)
And I attached a picture of my Rooster :) Not sure what he is.. a mixture of something... :lol: But I think he's quite a stunning roo. He doesn't like men all that much.. and always tries to sneak his way into the our house! :)

First 5 are some of my Ameraucanas, the one of my barred rocks, then one of our broiler hens, Her name is Lola and my mom has claimed her as pet.. then some pics of my Buff Orpingtons then my Roo whose named Chanticleer :D
 

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Very handsome flock, Evansk. Yep, that roo of yours is pretty obviously a combination, but he's quite stunning.

My Buff Orp roo's name is Buford. The young lady who got him as a chick thought he was a hen and named him Buffy, so I figured I'd just adjust the name and call him Buford.

I have no idea why my Cochin roo is named Moon. I got him from a friend earlier this year, and since he's going on 3 y/o I don't want to change it now.
 
#839 ·
Evansk, just out of curiosity because I'm constantly trying to find the best surface for my pen- how did you decide on putting straw down? How often do you have to change it so it doesn't get wet/smelly? Does it cover the whole pen or just a particular part of it?
 
#842 ·
We changed it about twice a week. If it rains, we clean it as soon as possible so it doesn't smell. We put it the front half of the pen, then they mess it up and spread it around, they love scratching and pecking it looking for bugs and stuff. They also have a nice grassy area and a sand patch for their dust baths :)

Evansk--I like the tubby white one :>
That's Lola hehe we have another white hen and her name is Brownie.. (my youngest niece named her :lol: )
 
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Strange behavior

My babies are acting odd today- I opened the run to let everyone out to free range, but they are basically just velcroed to the roost in the coop and won't come out (big girls are out and acting normal).

We did have a pretty drastic weather change, and some neighbors have some loud equipment running outside their house, but this is strange behavior for them. I NEVER see anyone in the coop during the day, and they certainly never turn down free ranging.

Only other thing I can think of is a big hawk or something did a close fly-over earlier in the day and spooked them (the pen has a wire "roof" so they would have been protected)? Just seems strange. Ever see a group do something like this? I think the last time I remember seeing this was when a hawk got one of my original chickens and the rest didn't come out of the coop for a full day.
 
#847 ·
Yeah, that definitely could be. The two adults were out and about like normal, but maybe the babies picked up on something they haven't encountered before. Who knows!

Everyone is safely penned back up at this point and hopefully they'll be back to normal tomorrow.
 
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...(the pen has a wire "roof" so they would have been protected)?

Egrogan, I remember, many years ago now, someone telling me that a hawk, upon seeing their young chickens tooling about in their wire topped run, dive bombed them hoping for lunch. The unfortunate hawk ended up deceased via a broken neck and the wire was stretched almost to the ground where he hit but the chickens were safe.
 
#849 ·
What a crazy story! No evidence of anything that exciting taking place. I don't know how well our structure would hold up to something like that, but I hope I never have to find out!

Before I had chickens, I always thought hawks were beautiful... Now seeing their shadow go by instantly puts me on alert.
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#850 ·
We have been lucky to deter the hawks so far. We have a mated pair that have lived around us for years. But our chicken coop and attached lot are in a heavily wooded area, and they can't get the momentum they need for a killing dive. The most the can do is cry and circle and send mine running for cover. The chickens that hang out near the house are safe because they are always close to the cats and dogs.
 
#851 ·
The hawks we get around here (Swainsons - sp?) don't bother the adults but they will go after the little ones. My husband interceded one time when a hawk got one of the chicks out by the hay stack. It was dead by the time he got there but he took it away rather than let the hawk keep it by way of making a point that you don't eat in this yard. Nonetheless that does not stop my birds from always going on high alert when they see a hawk over head (much like egrogan:rofl:).
 
#852 ·
I finally slowed down long enough to do some "girls" time with my chickens today.

Here's the Wyandotte whose toe we had to amputate:




A group shot:



My oldest chicken, a Sebright, the only survivor from my very first flock:




Chicken Candy!!!



One of these days I'll be quick enough to have the camera on video when I run out the door and I'll post of them all coming at a dead run to get their chicken candy treats.
 
#853 ·
I think I figured out what spooked the babies the other day.

We have a big flock of wild turkeys that crosses through here every few days- probably about 20-25 total counting the babies they have.

Today I was cleaning the chickens' pen and heard some weird rustling on the hill behind me, turned around and the turkey flock was hanging out right there. I think we both surprised each other, and the turkeys took off flying up into the trees (those things can fly HIGH and FAR- who knew?!). The babies took one look at them and bolted for the coop, refusing to come out.
 
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My Foxy(Silkie) is missing. ): Willow was looking for her and couldn't find her. When the chickens put themselves up for the night, Foxy wasn't in the coop. I don't know what happened. I'm going to hope that she just magically pops up out of no where.
 
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