I was a bad parent last night... I forgot to close the pen door last night after they went to roost... They were all out eating green grass this morning though.........it sure was Fun trying to get them back in....
Got a Cornish not moving around very good. Probably a dislocated leg. Going to filet the breasts off in another day or so...it won't make it 2 more weeks when the rest of them go to the butcher.
Caught a skunk in a trap by the chicken tractor today. Skunk .5 points but u get the whole point. No I didn't get sprayed but it smelled awful outside for a while.
How do you sex a baby by looks or can you? The 4 new babies were just hatched and not sexed. And I can't have any roosters. But 3 of them have are starting to get combs. I've reading up a bit but still nothing more than a suspicion. Here are a couple of pics..
I think only 3 ways to sex baby chicks- By color if they are sex links. Something to do with a difference in wing tip feathers, may be breed specific. Vent hole sexing, squeezing the poo out of them then look in the poo hole. You'd have to google it and I think it takes lots of practice to get right. I've seen comb size vary a lot in young chicks, and not due to sex. The same in our grown hens. Saddle feathers are a give away as they get older. I wouldn't do any culling for at least a 2-3 months if it were me.
Imma need a 3rd tractor here real soon. Big chicken sale next week. The order for 100 never happened...only have 100 or so right now.
I started to let some of the grass on the back of the properly grow to about 12 inches or so and gather it all up and hang it from a rope dangling into the run. Chickens love it. Hours of pecking.
And here I am thinking 6 is a lot. Lol. When are these damm hens going to start laying eggs. They were a week old when I got them on March 11.
