Posts by Cedarknob

I've used Ameraucanas over CX  [white commercial broilers] and now breeding the F1 generation. This is a blue barred F2 and I suspect the chick in the upper left of the second photo will also be blue barred. The F1s are large,...

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUman  I see one of the bigger ones is a bearded white, hopefully they grow faster and bigger then the one I saw, they are pretty cool. Thanks. She was from my White Cornish over a...

I always get a kick out of hatching chicks, though not so fond of raising chicks in our winters here. However, I'm developing a project line of meaty bodied, blue egg layers and want them to be decent winter layers, so am hatching...

F2 chicks from my project. Hatching and raising chicks in the winter is a bit of extra hassle, but I do it to insure that my project line will come from parents that are winter hardy and winter layers. The breeding pen has no...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickChickChicky    Careful with that tobacco, nicotine is a very potent nerve toxin that insects cannot develop a tolerance to. I don't know if the birds would eat any of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by 7961  If anyone is a fan of P. Allen Smith and the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, there is a nice interview in this month's Exhibition...

Blue tongue is a virus spread to ruminants primarily by the bite of midges, which do resemble mosquitoes but are smaller. Many folks around here call midges 'no-see-ums' due to their small size. Plague hatches of midges are more likely...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arielle  LOL, I finally figured out that not all heritage birds are dual purpose birds!  THe cornish are meat birds, not layers.  How many males and how many females in your flock...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arielle  WHo marks hens/pullets that lay in the early winter???   I have a number of slackers and I'm wondering if it worth marking the the pullets/hens that ARE laying right now in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Life is Good!    Joining the conversation.  Finally realized the forums had a state-by-state listing!  Sorry, was spending WAY too much time reading other...