Our White Leghorn and Ameraucana pullets recently made the move from the brooder to a portion of the coop and it’s been so much fun watching them explore, scratch around, and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air!
We have eight of each and it’s hilarious to watch how skittish the Leghorns are and how they then scare the others with their silliness.
We’re still not sure how many roosters there may be in the bunch (it’s little too early to tell), but they are growing in leaps and bounds and eating like horses!
Also, I’m happy to report that white feathers are easier to find than brown feathers in our high desert environment, so many, many of these tiny white feathers are being collected and will, eventually, become an awesome as-of-yet-not-imagined craft project 🙂
There are certainly worse things, right? 😉
xoxo,
M
Nice post. You reminded me of how my grandfather had chickens at my grandparent’s house, and I didn’t realize how helpful fresh eggs were back when I was just a kid.
Sometimes you don’t realize the amazing things in front of you until much later in life.
Nice post.
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You should post pictures so we can guess! I see one easter egger roo. The rusty red color on the wing patches are generally a dead giveaway.
Ooohhhhh…that sounds fun! I’ll see what I can pull together! 🙂
Wow! They seem to have grown so quickly! From comb size it looks like maybe two leghorn roosters…the others have pea combs, so much harder to tell. Our araucana also had pointy neck feathers, but no saddle feathers and she was laying so rooster ruled out heeheehee enjoy those white feathers!
Yeah…I’d guess out of 16 we’d have to have a few roosters 😉 you never know know for sure though til they crow or give you an egg 🙂
They are so cute! And you’ll have feathers to play with. Can’t beat that. 🙂
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I saw a cooking program on Netflix the other day where they fed chickens paprika. Then they get red yolks.
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Ha! Yes, people feed their chickens all kinds of thing to manipulate the yolk color. Healthy, happy hens don’t need that kind of trickery 😉 Hope you’re well, Cardinal!
It was all organic. This program was about a chef (Dan Barber, Blue Hill, NYC) who runs a couple of restaurants and also an organic farm. Plus he’s co-operating with other organic farmers. The program was called Chef’s Table. Some farmer scientist there said that paprika is naturally meant to be food for chickens – they don’t feel the capsicum.
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Ha! Very cool! I’ll check it out 🙂 Thanks, Cardinal!