So last evening me
Silver one of our interns and two of the kids went over to my rabbit
person to catch as many of her chickens as we could get our hands on.
We did this around sunset in the hopes of catching them roosting.
From the looks it seems most are crosses of some kind. We now have a
good number of roosters (I am going to be culling there and I am
trying to decide which roosters to keep), there is a few young birds;
who keep close together thankfully. One of the youngsters is a
guinea fowl, she (I think) has a lame leg; seems to be twisted
backwards. I am hoping as she grows she'll be able to walk ok so I
can let her loose come next spring to eat bugs for us. We did get
some turken's otherwise known as the “naked-necked chicken”. The
two adults are roosters and seems we have two young ones of
indeterminate sex. I am hoping for at least one hen in there as I
want the size of those birds added to my flock. So if we don't have
a hen I might be keeping one of those roosters as they seem very
vigorous in mating with hens from watching them for a few minutes
this morning.
I was also offered
to take the one homing pigeon she has. Seems at one point she had
more and the rest flew off and left this one female by herself. We
are thinking of taking her, we just need to make her a house. I was
thinking of buying a couple more to raise as squab maybe, though the
birds seem very pricey to buy. Lowest I saw was $50 a bird and that
did not count shipping. I'll have to see what I can about getting a
few more somewhere down the line.
The guinea isn't the
only one with a foot issue it seems either. There is a hen who is
missing at least her claws, and a white rooster who walks decidedly
oddly like one of his feet don't work right. The woman said the
guinea is due to her incubator, that is possible I imagine; I will
have to see when we use it. Granted Silver is thinking of rebuilding
it so it might not be an issue at all for us. I plan on checking on
everybody a few times today to see how they interact to help me
decide which roosters to keep around for my ladies. I also have a
few that I am still trying to see if they are hens or roosters, as I
learned when I had just the Rhode Island Reds and Jersey Giants that
the hens sometimes get big combs. So that's it for now, I wish I had
a -working- camera so I could snap some pics but that is one expense
I can't afford right now.
BE Well, Be Safe,
and Blessed Be...
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