Meet Jerry and Beavis!
They are not only brothers, but they are the best of friends. You will never see one without the other a few feet away. We hatched them last Spring in a homemade incubator made from a cheap styrofoam cooler, a glass lid from a small aquarium and a lightbulb. We couldn’t believe it worked! We turned the eggs 3-5 times a day. It was tedious. But so cool!
We hatched 3 boys and 1 girl.
Jerry and Beavis are the 2 remaining roosters from the 4. Rillo, the 3rd boy, got picked off by a hawk last summer. Beavis’ mom was a Cinnamon Queen hen and his dad is an Old English bantam rooster. Jerry’s mom is a Silver Laced Wyandotte with the same father. (We only had one rooster at the time) His name is Nacho. He’s the boss.
When Jerry was born, he had a severe vitamin deficiency from the 11 hours it took him to break from his egg. It generally only takes a couple of hours for a chick to hatch. So we had to give him vitamin water (Flintstone chewable vitamins crushed into a water paste) manually a few times a day.
He had badly curled toes on one foot and he would stare up at the heat light so tall that he’d fall on his back and be stuck there until one of us flipped him over. We were very worried about him. But our treatment helped and now he’s a regular dude with curled toes on one foot.
Jerry and Beavis spend every minute of the day together. They stay out later than most of the chickens, clucking and beeping as they scamper around looking for seeds that might have fallen from the bird feeders. They frequent our wrap around porch every day between 10am and noon, where they shout together.
