Chicks?

[Dutch]

10 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

You must have a lot of fingers then.  You lost 100 last year alone.

I was having those same thoughts.

[tjm]

You can count to a thousand on one hand if you can keep track of how many times you go back and forth. Four fingers and a thumb twenty times is a hundred. 

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

Never decorated any chickens, but the rabbit or turtle 🙄

[Johnsfolly]

10 hours ago, Ketchup said:

Who else has Christmas lights on their coop?  And if you do, do you have a tree with lights in their pen too? Well, my better half does. 

We did have the Christmas lights for a few years on our coop in Missouri. Kept the hens laying at least a few eggs each week during the winter. We did not give them a tree 😅

[Terrierman]

No decorations but I did go to a fair amount of trouble to rehab the hen house that was a wedding present when Lovey and I got hitched.  Also built a new larger 12'x24' predator resistant pen that will be easy to maintain. I've had more than my share of predator troubles with the birds but I do believe I have that taken care of now.

The big dark bird is the bossy hen that has tried the rooster a couple of times - she tries to crow too but she's not very good at that either.  The hen in the corner is a very pretty Speckled Sussex.  The rooster is a fine-looking example of a Rhode Island red.  There are also 4 RIR hens.  All the birds are very friendly and have it figured out where food comes from.  They follow us around the yard whenever we're out.  Our dogs are good with them too.

Still getting eggs every day, usually three, sometimes two, sometimes four.

 

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Never decorated any chickens, but the rabbit or turtle 🙄

              I remember seeing those before! What a hoot love it.

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

No decorations but I did go to a fair amount of trouble to rehab the hen house that was a wedding present when Lovey and I got hitched.  Also built a new larger 12'x24' predator resistant pen that will be easy to maintain. I've had more than my share of predator troubles with the birds but I do believe I have that taken care of now.

The big dark bird is the bossy hen that has tried the rooster a couple of times - she tries to crow too but she's not very good at that either.  The hen in the corner is a very pretty Speckled Sussex.  The rooster is a fine-looking example of a Rhode Island red.  There are also 4 RIR hens.  All the birds are very friendly and have it figured out where food comes from.  They follow us around the yard whenever we're out.  Our dogs are good with them too.

Still getting eggs every day, usually three, sometimes two, sometimes four.

 

If I gave my wife that much room for the chickens, we would have 15 hens and counting...😅

[oneshot 1]

Decided to get Chick's at Stover they do Guarantee their Chick's.

oneshot 

[Dutch]

My daughter has laying hens at the farm as a hobby and entertainment for the kids.  They catch snails and feed them to the chickens.  I don’t have any and don’t want any.  My last contact with poultry was raising 25000 free range turkeys.

[Terrierman]

31 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

If I gave my wife that much room for the chickens, we would have 15 hens and counting...😅

We've got chicks coming in February.  Three Splash Ameracaunas, one Buff Orpington, one Light Brahma and one Barred Rock.  I like some variety in my yard birds.  I'm getting them from the place where oneshot got the ones that died on him.  So who knows how many will actually make it. 

They'll be started here indoors in a wading pool with pine shavings for bedding and a heat lamp.  They'll have as good a chance as I know how to give them.