Posts by featherfriendlyinIowa52

I have a lot of pretty fellas...deciding who goes and who stays is both emotional and difficult.  I've already culled all of my Ancona roosters as they were getting much too aggressive and I have only one Ancona hen...

My husband enclosed my run by digging around it 8 inches or so, and cementing in the 1" sq 14 ga wire fencing with 4 x 4's 4 or 5 ft apart and the same fencing on top of the run.  The screened windowns on the coop are covered...

I murdered my first chickens.  Five beautiful Ancona roosters.  They had become the gestapo of the flock and scared them all to death whenever I let them mingle.  They were hilarious too though.  Would line up and...

Thank you.   I don't know what I was talking about regarding the splash either, except that someone had mentioned the Ameracauna crosses could be sexed earlier, not at hatch specifically.  Ah well.  New...

How pretty!  Mine are still a dream.

I have a hen hatched 4-1 that looks just like her (from a blue egg).   Supposedly she was a lavender Ameracauna (but I'm guessing probably a lavender EE) and the roo was either a lavender Ameradauna (EE?) or a lavender...

I'm brand new to this thread and I'm sorry if my question has already been addressed, but I read quite a few pages but LOL there are hundreds!  I have 6 Ameracaunas (blue & black), born 4-1-12...I'm still not able to sex them...

Thank you all.  I knew something was not quite right with what the seller told me as I couldn't believe a brown 8-week old chick would somehow miraculously turn white with black on the neck & tail.  And again, I apologize...

I have what is supposed to be an 8-week old Delaware.  It is brown with a bit of straw coloring and black tips.  I hatched the egg from an ebay purchase.  I can only find pics of new chicks and older chickens.  The...

I know this thread can help me.  I bought some Delaware eggs on ebay.  Only one hatched and is now about 8 weeks old.  The chick is brown with a bitof mottled straw-colored feathers and some black tips.  I've tried...