SO much has happened since my last post, I was afraid I wasn't going to have any more chickens to blog about. At the beginning of this month, the weather here was VERY hot and VERY humid. I don't know what happened, but I was losing one chicken every day for a while. Out of all of the 25 chickens I had, I only have 9 left. Granted, five were re homed to a friend's to live the farm life with sheep and all. The three silkie roosters were re homed and ended back where they were hatched (interestingly enough). So then, out of the 17 I had left, 8 died...Now I have 2 Mottled Houdans (Half Pint & Domino), the original 3 Columbian Wyandottes (Angel, Elisabeth, and Joan), 1 Blue Maran (Skye), 1 Golden Polish (Labelle), 1 Paint Silkie, and 1 EE (Bandit).
Half Pint is now full-sized pullet forher age. Before Clover passed, it took a moment to realize which was which. Looks like Angel is a roo and will probably be bred with the two pullets. Bandit is also a cockerel and will be bred to a few pullets close to the same coloring as he, and one that I call a buff head colored white. Very pretty! I hope to get some of similar color in the eggs. One can only hope. :)
In any case, I also want more Maran hens. I don't really want to breed them, but she lays well. She just started laying, and she has given me 7 in the last 9 days. Excellent layer. I will probably get one or two more Marans, too. The Marans are a sweet breed that are very social. The social aspect is why I love them so. I don't plan on breeding the Polish, but he still makes an excellent lawn ornament, so I doubt I'll be getting rid of him.
Domino holding strong
One of the RIR mixes that was re homed
Skye
Clover (The last casualty, RIP)
A picture of the gang
Skye's first egg! And the butt it came from....
I believe this is the third egg she layed.
I think this is Elisabeth.
Joan and Elisabeth are hard to tell apart now adays.
Domino
Painted Silkie
Domino
Half Pint and Labelle
A Quada-riety (variety of four)
Angel
Angel and
Bandit. Not sure what happened to his beautiful tail feathers... :(
Labelle
Angel
Look at the difference in the tail feathers!
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Elisabeth (left) and Joan (right)
Labelle
The makeshift did not pan out. Not unexpected, so mleh!
The RIR roosters are now living the free range life at a friend's farm.
Yang perished with half of my old flock. :'-(
The lost are listed as follows:
Mottled Houdans
Yang
Yin
Clover
Feather
Golden Laced Polish
Lady Marmalade
Bantam
Little Henny
Black Copper Marans
Midnight
Twilight
