Starting a new chicken thread for the new year. Hopefully everyone will have healthy flocks with tons of eggs!
2025 Chicken Chat
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He looks, good a doodle doo. 😁
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Awe, I’m sure the ladies still love him!
out of my 7 chickens hatched this year, I have 2 black roosters, they’re copper rock marens but they have gold feathering in their necks that look really neat. Then one of my white chickens is a roo too. I’m contemplating keeping one of the black ones and downsizing my old roo population…
out of my 7 chickens hatched this year, I have 2 black roosters, they’re copper rock marens but they have gold feathering in their necks that look really neat. Then one of my white chickens is a roo too. I’m contemplating keeping one of the black ones and downsizing my old roo population…
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They put up with him. He is the father of this year's brood of 6 (1 hen, 5 roosters). All the young roos have two tail feathers.
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I just happen to look out the window this morning's dawn, to see a falcon glide under a big oak and land on my chicken coop. While always fascinated by Mother Natures antics, I was also annoyed. I flew (okay, hobbled) down the stairs and raced (okay, lumbered) to the coop. I probably got to within 10m (10.93613 yards) before he flew up into a tree. Then, viciously smacking my hands together, making a raucous clapping sound, he flew into a higher tree. And there I left him, since my attempts at making additional noise to scare him away seemed to just amuse him.
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Do you have any black chickens @luvmyherd? Just curious as to whether the ‘crow’ chickens actually help or not.
my dogs are always running out if they see birds swooping low… whether a hawk or a crane 😅
my dogs are always running out if they see birds swooping low… whether a hawk or a crane 😅
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I bet the black roosters with gold neck feathering are gorgeous!
Did you buy a batch of new chicks this year as well, or just broody raised?
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Just had a color broodys hatch out babies since I’ve not been very watchful 😅
I actually had another mama hatch out 7 chicks just a few days ago! Dangit… 😅
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Chickens like a bit of grass.
My chickens are confined to their quarters since Mother Nature is anxious to cull my flock this time of year and invariably we disagree on which ones should be culled. So I try to remember to give then a handful of grass blades every day, now that I have some green grass growing. They don't eat a lot of it, just a few blades each, but they do seem to want some everyday.
I don't remember to do it as often as I want to, so I was hoping that writing about it here will help me to remember more often.
My chickens are confined to their quarters since Mother Nature is anxious to cull my flock this time of year and invariably we disagree on which ones should be culled. So I try to remember to give then a handful of grass blades every day, now that I have some green grass growing. They don't eat a lot of it, just a few blades each, but they do seem to want some everyday.
I don't remember to do it as often as I want to, so I was hoping that writing about it here will help me to remember more often.
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They sure do like those greens. 😁
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