Chicken Tender with the Backyard Chicken Coop News

Hey Chicken Tender here and I thought I would share a few pictures of some of my friends from the Backyard Chicken Coop.

The pictures below are just some of the other chickens that Jeff has.  He had just let them out of the coop to enjoy the evening scratching for some grain that he just scattered out on the ground.  This is my favorite part of the day… Out of the Chicken Coop where I feel free to strut my feathers.

The hot speckled chick in the lower middle of the picture all by her self  is Tilly.  Tilly is a 4 year old Speckled Sussex that I have been crowing for ever since I first set my eyes on her.  What a chick!

I have to keep my eye on the big black fellow in the bottom left picture… that’s Big Black.  he is a Jersey Giant crossed with an Ameraucana chicken, which is called an easter egg chicken that lays shades of blue, green, and pink eggs.  He takes after his Pa and just kept on a growing.  The Standard weights of a Jersey Black Giant at maturity are males-13 lbs. and hens-10 lbs, but they grow kind of slow.  The hens do lay nice big brown eggs though, and are good looking chicks.

The other guy on the right of Tilly is Wyant.  He is a  Silver Laced Wyandotte…Wyant and I get a long much better. Wyandottes are a nice docile chicken and the hens are a very good layer of brown eggs.

Now the big fellow down below they call him Jake.  He isn’t really part of the Chicken flock as you really should not raise Chickens and Turkeys in the same coop because of diseases.  Jake is a Narragansett Turkey.  He thinks he is pretty good looking because he is always strutting around, Gobbling, and drumming his wings for his mate.  The pattern of the Narragansett turkey is similar to the Bronze, but bronze is replaced with steel gray and the brown in the tail is a lighter tan. The gray has a slightly golden or brown tint. . . . My preference for the Narragansett is based mostly on a calm disposition and size.  Calm and not to big

The nice looking building right next to Jake is his coop.  My chicken coop is just like it only we have a little bigger chicken run attached to our 8 X 10 shed that Jeff built in just a day.  We enjoy the wild grapevines growing over the top of the building as it gives us nice shade during the hot summer days.  Jeff comes out and trims them back every year so they do not grow to wild and spoil the view of looking at the nice variety of day lillies that he planted just outside the coops.

Well thanks for stopping by the Backyard Chicken Coop.  I will be sharing some more great tips on how you can get the most enjoyment out of raising chickens!

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