Chicken Times

I enjoy reading alot of different blogs and a few of them are farm blogs. I use to breed show chickens..lots of them..and this time a year I would be starting to get ready for the big hatches.

I usually put 40 eggs in the incubator and had about a 97% hatch rate. So I had ALOT of chicks...in the house..LOL

Well I sole my entire flock off to a farm that breeds heritage birds, birds that have been around a long time but their numbers are few. I regret it every day but I was losing too many to predators and the feed bill was getting to be too much. Plus I can't have chickens in the small backyard I am going to have. There are certain birds I wish I could have kept but I felt it was better for them to all go together. I am not good at letting animals go and I charged next to nothing. I am just hoping they got a good home. I am hoping one day to have chickens again. I gave all my silkie breed chickens to my nephew so I still get to see them and I have 5 birds still here at home which will go to my sis's farm when I move.

So this is a bunch of little guys..they were so cute.

This is Q-Tip he was my first sickly chick. He spent 3 days almost dead in the incubator but I got him through it. He always had a bad leg but the lady that bought him loves him and he is still going strong. When you handle them alot they get quite tame.

This is a silkie chick and a mutt...awwww

This guy was striking a pose. I like this pic, might do something with it someday.

Finally the Three Amigos. These are White Crested Polish. 2 blue and 1 black. My most favourite breed of all chickens. I like this pic too.

Sigh..makes me kinnda sad to see these little guys but at least I don't have to clean up after them any more!

This is Napolean one of my most favourite roosters. I wanted to keep him but I wanted him to go with his girls. I could scratch his tummy and he would lay down and roll over. I showed him a few times at fairs and he loved it. He would crow along with any music playing.

This is Nero. He was a much showier bird with a better crest but not a good breeder. He was also very high strung and nervous. To keep his crest like that I had to keep it in ponytails.

It was alot of work to get the crest like that and then he got severe frost bite which ruined his wattles(the dangling red things) so he was unshowable.

This was my Blue rooster..very nice bird..not a good personality

Finally this was a mutt I bred on purpose. It was a good cross and he sold fast. He was a hyper fellow though.

I have alot more pics but I'm sure thats enough for now, plus it's making me miss them...I'll think I'll go out and see my old gang of five..