Posts by Green Acres

Hi,   I'm very new to all this, but saw your title as "Flockmaster" and presumed you could help.   I have a one year old black silkie rooster who runs the barnyard. He keeps the full sized roosters in line, and dances...

Kathy, they are gorgeous. Thank you for all the hard, diligent work. Like so many others, I look forward to the day you begin selling them. 

I've just acquired a Speckled Sussex rooster and some Delaware hens. I know it is 3 years after you did this cross and I greatly appreciate the pictures, but how did they turn out in terms of egg laying, meat production, etc. Any...

I'm new to Delewares - have 8 hens and 2 roos just a month old. Could you (or someone) coach me as to what to look for? Those pictures look great to me. Is there something about tails that tends to be a problem that needs to be...

Those Delewares are beautiful! I wish you were a 1000 miles closer, as I'd love to buy some of their offspring. I just bought my first Deleware chicks three weeks ago, and hope to learn more about crossing in the parent strains to...

Interesting idea - one I'd never thought of. I especially like the drawings which someone with some technical know how could replicate. Just a thought - I wonder how long it takes before the hens figure it out and lay elsewhere! :-)...

Thank you. I will have three or four different egg colors when everyone starts laying, but I'll need to choose between half a dozen hens of each variety which ones will be allowed to remain as part of my future breeding flock. I envy...

Thanks, I will. One of my goals for my hobby is to develop a largely self-sustaining flock, good layers yet hatching their own and getting a lot from their foraging. I don't want to maintain excess baggage or drag down the breeding...

That is a clever idea. Just paint them early each morning and hope it doesn't dry out too quickly? Thank you - definitely worth a try.  

I'm a newbie, so I may be asking something that is common knowledge. How do you keep track of how many eggs an individual hen is laying? I want to breed and raise offspring from the best layers, but short of putting them in separate...