It’s hatching time again and the first one is out. The cockerels will go in the freezer once grown and the hens on Craigslist in the spring. These are more of our silver laced Wyandotte.
It’s always fun when they begin popping out. These are out of our silver laced Wyandottes .
It’s a BEAUTIFUL cool breezy evening here and the girls are outside watching the chickens forage and playing with the ducklings.
I’ve been letting them out the last three days. Today they’re actually venturing out and doing a little foraging. They’re doing amazing well and getting along with the big chickens.
22 May – added a picture of the pullets taken today.
I finally got around to actually making the chicken tractor mobile. The wheels came off an old air compressor that no longer worked.
Our order from the Cackle Hatchery arrived this afternoon. We ordered 15 pullets and two cockerels of the silver laced Wyandotte. We have had sexlinks for two years but I decided to switch to the Wyandottes. Sexlinks do not breed true, so if for some reason I couldn’t find more chicks we wouldn’t have egg laying chickens. That isn’t an issue with the Wyandotte breed.
When these are grown they’ll replace our reds. Here are some chick pictures and one of the red sexlink hens. The chick with the red head indicates a male.
