Thorough and informative, as usual! I relied on posts like this one before we got our chicks, and I continue to learn from you. Now we have a mix of ten chickens: 4 Buckeyes, 2 Olive Eggers, 2 Coco Marans, and 2 Rhode Island reds. I named them for their breeds so I could remember them: Buckwheat, Spanky, Darla and Alfalfa (Buckeyes); Oli…
Thorough and informative, as usual! I relied on posts like this one before we got our chicks, and I continue to learn from you.
Now we have a mix of ten chickens: 4 Buckeyes, 2 Olive Eggers, 2 Coco Marans, and 2 Rhode Island reds. I named them for their breeds so I could remember them: Buckwheat, Spanky, Darla and Alfalfa (Buckeyes); Olive Oil and Popeye (Olive Eggers); Coco and Chanel (Coco Marans); and Big Red and Little Red (RI Reds).
They're all great foragers and seem to get along fine. We've had eggs throughout the entire winter, although fewer, of course. Still enough to need one of those egg carousel things! We've just been writing the date on them with a Sharpie and digging through the basket to use the oldest first.
We used to keep them stacked in egg cartons with sharpie and masking tape everywhere, so I hear you there. The first in first out thing is really lovely. I'd never heard of Buckeye chickens, thanks! They seem like a wonderful choice =)
Buckeyes are also protectors. They're great mousers. A few weeks ago we found a number of blood spots outside the coop (outside their enclosure, but inside their run). We checked all the chickens and they were fine... I think one of my Buckeyes may have killed (and eaten) an intruder. :-)
Thorough and informative, as usual! I relied on posts like this one before we got our chicks, and I continue to learn from you.
Now we have a mix of ten chickens: 4 Buckeyes, 2 Olive Eggers, 2 Coco Marans, and 2 Rhode Island reds. I named them for their breeds so I could remember them: Buckwheat, Spanky, Darla and Alfalfa (Buckeyes); Olive Oil and Popeye (Olive Eggers); Coco and Chanel (Coco Marans); and Big Red and Little Red (RI Reds).
They're all great foragers and seem to get along fine. We've had eggs throughout the entire winter, although fewer, of course. Still enough to need one of those egg carousel things! We've just been writing the date on them with a Sharpie and digging through the basket to use the oldest first.
We used to keep them stacked in egg cartons with sharpie and masking tape everywhere, so I hear you there. The first in first out thing is really lovely. I'd never heard of Buckeye chickens, thanks! They seem like a wonderful choice =)
Buckeyes are also protectors. They're great mousers. A few weeks ago we found a number of blood spots outside the coop (outside their enclosure, but inside their run). We checked all the chickens and they were fine... I think one of my Buckeyes may have killed (and eaten) an intruder. :-)