Silver and Gold ... Silver and Gold ... Silver and Gold .... Silver
On Thursday we added 7 new Wyandotte chicks to our flock , we were adding 6 at a time on a two year cycle from laying to meat to feed our family. We pick dual purpose , cold hardy , and friendly chickens. We had 6 ISA browns in the spring of 2020 and we get constant wonderful eggs from them. We had a hawk attack and lost one to it. To loose one in a year I am ok with she got out of the garden and did not hide like her sisters. One of the new 7 will go with the 5 we have left next spring to make way for 6 more chicks and keep up our cycle of food.
The Wyandotte is an American breed of chicken developed in the 1870s. It was named for the indigenous Wyandot people of North America. The Wyandotte is a dual-purpose breed, kept for its brown eggs and its yellow-skinned meat. They will start to lay at 9 months and will lay for 3 years.
The ISA Brown is a crossbreed of chicken, with sex-linked coloration. It is thought to have been the result of a complex series of crosses including but not limited to Rhode Island Reds and Rhode Island Whites, and contains genes from a wide range of breeds. They lay brown eggs daily for the first 3 years of life.
Now we are novices to chickens we have never owned them, never cared for them, never knew how many flipping eggs 6 chickens would give you. We started a cost sheet where we take the cost of feed, bedding ( we have started collecting our own and will start growing food for the animals ) and all things chicken with the number of eggs they give us in a given month we are up a lot. In lean times the chickens have proven to be great for our family in both our pocketbooks and our tummies. I will post more on how we saved money by building the coop from scraps left around and the whole year with the ISA's but nowhere are the chicks. We brought them from a local farm supply store and they are hens as we are not allowed roosters.
This is our broader where we keep the chicks safe and warm in it we have food ( medicated ), grit, water, a heat lamp, and a thermometer. The thermometer is important because baby chicks can not regulate their own temps. We put the chicks in our sun porch last year we had them in the basement and it was harder to keep their temps up.
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