#amberlinks

[llyssadraws]

Strange man

[llyssadraws]

Woman

[journiland]

Speaking of chickens, we're not thrilled with the Copper Maran. She's gone broody three times this summer. Then she has to spend three days in chicken jail, and doesn't lay for another week or so. She'd be at risk of becoming soup if I didn't like seeing her dark brown egg in the carton so much. (Google says Marans only occasionally become broody, but ours apparently didn't read those articles.)

We've been leaning more towards the hybrid chickens since they have better egg production. The 8 we just raised are 3 Amberlinks, 4 Black Sexlinks, and 1 Black Australorp (not a hybrid but I've always wanted one). The dozen new chicks we kept are 4 Amberlinks and 8 Black Sexlinks. (We like the look of the Black Sexlinks better...black with some copper, plus they're supposed to be slightly higher in egg production than the Amberlinks).

Black Sexlinks (the amount of copper can vary from almost none to a ton):

Australorp (Vampire calls her and the Maran demon chickens, because their irises are so dark that their eyes look all black, like when someone is possessed on tv):

Amberlinks:

And the roo (he's an Americauna):

[thatgirlwithadhd]

The babes are growing!!!

They are at the age where their wings are proportionally Too Big so they look like baby angels (I’ll try to get some pics showing their wings tomorrow).

Unfortunately Merryweather’s showing signs of being a lad...