Well, it's official, I'm not really liking these brahmas or leghorns. They're NOT friendly birds at all, not compared to the orps. The orps will come up to me and let me do almost anything to them.. I can't pick up any of the brahmas or leghorns without them freaking out. Oh well, I didn't know. I know next time not to get them. I'm thinking about, next year, ordering some white orps & others from that Murray McMurray hatchery as no one locally will carry the white orps.
It's too cold for the chickens to be outside right now. I'm afraid of them freezing to death, so I had to move the brahmas & the leghorns back downstairs with the silkies & put the orps back in their hutch inside the house. The temps yesterday was 71 degs. Today the high was 18 with a windchill of -2. Brutal. Too cold for them. They have a nice coop with lots of straw in it, but I was afraid of them freezing to death, so I brought them inside. They can stay inside until Thursday when it warms back up into the 50s & 60s.
