Posts by runswithchicken

Thanks, I'll look him up.   I have never shipped live birds before, but I'd be willing to once they are adults. I think they either have to be day olds or adults to ship, (I remember reading that somewhere on the usps website...

The one surviving egg from my last cream legbar clutch is a.......boy. That puts my total at 4 boys and 0 girls.  I've never felt so sexist in my life, but I am so disappointed I didn't get any girls. I'm determined to hatch a...

Thanks! It would be great if most of them were pullets.

Any one want to give a guess on the sex of my mutts? Dad is the ee/RIR mix in my avatar and the mom(s) are RIR. The biggest one is 5 weeks and I think he is looking like a roo because of his shiny tail feathers and pink comb. The...

Thought I'd jump in and say hi since I'm the new mama of 3 little legbar boys, 2 cream and 1 white. (Pretty sure the white one is a boy) It's my luck I'd hatch all boys. I have six more legbar eggs in the bator and I'm hoping for some...

The parent colors the eggs were supposed to have come from were Buff, White, Partridge, Blue, and Black. All the eggs were silkie eggs. Some were labeled S, some were labeled Buff and some were labeled Ex. I did ask the seller to...

This cutie hatched from a shipped egg marked with an "S" which I figured meant it was supposed to be silver. It does seem to have some grey/silver tones, but it is very dark overall. Is this what a silver silkie chick looks like? Could...

I have a silkie, I have a silkie, I have a silkie hey hey hey hey! And two of my RIR mixes. My hatch-a-long eggs are set to hatch today, but these three hatched late last night. Still hoping for a couple more from the other four eggs...

The eggs I set for the hatch-a-long aren't due to hatch till Friday, but I had one pip this afternoon! I thought I was going crazy today hearing chirping, but it's possible I guess since one pipped already. Fingers crossed some of my...

I'm about to swear off this whole hatching thing completely. The first time I've managed to get more than one chick to hatch, one has a problem with it's navel.   He hatched last night with part of the yolk sac unabsorbed (I'm...