Turkey Tracks: Introducing Chickie Honey Ginger

Turkey Tracks:  June 26, 2011

Introducing Chickie Honey Ginger

Here she is:  our new addition to our flock:  Chickie Honey Ginger:

She’s a Freedom Ranger, which is both a meat chicken and a layer.   Even though she’s only 10 weeks old, she is as big as the other full-grown hens.  But, she’s still very “baby chickie” too.

And let me tell you that everything one reads about not upsetting the pecking order in the flock is true.  I took the two older Marans to Rose and brought in Chickie Honey Ginger, and the two Wheaten Americaunas in particular have made her life miserable.  The rooster does what he can, and she sleeps next to him most nights, but it has taken a week for some sense of order to return to the flock.  She hangs out sort of near the rest of the hens most of the time now, but she really is still very young.

A better strategy would have been to have just brought in all four of the new additions at one time.  But, the others are two weeks younger still, and I worried about them since my chicks are now penned.  I’ll bring them in this next week:  two CB Marans and a Wheaten Americauna.  There wasn’t much choice since we processed the meat chicks this past Saturday.

Our freezer is crammed full with 24, beautiful, healthy FR chickens.

Author: louisaenright

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