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Photo Gallery ~ Spring 2011 Now (chicks!) || Winter 11-12 (Click thumbnails for enlargements--Scroll to the bottom for first entry on this page) The huddle. They still flee from me, but warm up after I sit still for a few minutes.
The huddle. Bravery is gone and they don't trust me anymore. When I go in they scramble over each other to get to the farthest corner of the brooder.
The big girls are cute too. Here they are posing after I've been ignoring them in favor of the 'kids.' The Easter Egger in the first portrait used to have black feathers in her cheeks and beard--guess chickens gray like humans. The Barred Rock is called Number 1--her leg band. She is VERY friendly.
Twelve adorable puffs moved from the feed store into the brooder today. Six Easter Eggers and six Barred Rocks--my two favorite breeds. I'm naming the EEs again so I can see what color they are in full plumage. Poor Barred Rocks don't get many photos because they all look alike! One of the EEs looks like a Guinea Hen keet, therefore her name. The rest are the same or similar in color to previous babies so I'll be comparing them to their namesakes. (Find the earlier color comparison pages here.)
May 13, 2011 - Bad Luck on Friday the 13th I found one of the Easter Eggers dead on the floor of the coop today. No sign of foul play. Just another sad day on the farm. We will miss this youngster (named Brownspot for color comparison) from last summer. She didn't quite make it to her first birthday.
On April 7, 2009 I reported that I was culling a Black Australorp because she was so determined to be broody. I gave her to a young woman I was going to school with and fully expected the hen would be Easter dinner that year. Well today I got a message with a photo of that hen. She is doing the job she was made for--broodiness. Here she is with a group of 14 chicks she hatched from hatching eggs purchased for her.
April 23, 2011 - Second Broody Blind Chick the Buff Orpington who is blind in one eye is broody. Last summer she was so determined, I let her stay on her makeshift nest on the coop floor. This year I will cull her when the laying season is over.
One of the Rhode Island Reds is broody--the first of the season. She fluffs up her feathers and kind of growls when I approach. I think she looks like a turkey when she does this!
March 27, 2011 - Spring at Last Still cloudy today, but the sun is on its way for the rest of this week. Here are some pictures of the girls grazing in the grass of their enclosure. Its hard to get pictures of them out there because they usually run to follow me, getting too close for my camera to focus on them.
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