Posts by beauty2thebirds

Auction time!   24 hours. Ends at 8:00 am on the 12th. Bidding will start at $40.00. Please look at the last bid, and the bidding will go up in $1.00 increments.   I have some nice eggs collected while we were at...

I love the flock fuel, and it really seems to make them shine even more. I am going to show next month in California. My first show ever, so I need some advice if anyone reads this. first question is..... Is a male considered a...

I hatch paints all the time, and I got disappointed when I ended up with a white chick, BUT to my pleasant surprise a few days ago, the same chick that is now 6-7 weeks old is spotting up very nice. Yes they can be white and spot as...

Those are definitely baby paints. Nice hatch! The older they get the more pronounced the black spots get. Keep in touch. I would love to see how they come out :-) Tonya

This will be my first show. I'm very excited and very nervous all at the same time. I don't want to make a fool of myself, but I want to learn the do's and the don't. I have questions if someone could help me please. I know the...

Crow or lay an egg? What if they have the nose crest? Or do the hens have them also? Ive been culling Silkies this week, I guess I may take them out of the holding pen and put them back in with everyone else. I certainly don't want to...

Looks like a blue roo to me, but always hard to tell at this age. It is Blue though. here is a picture of some of my blue roosters at the same age. Hen down below........................     Now here are...

I just had to share some pictures. I found our first 3 eggs today in the pen. So Ive got 3 new layers (my first silkies) in 1 day. There were no eggs yesterday, so I'm pleased as punch about this :-) Most of the birds shown are...

Got my 5 votes. I will be back tomorrow, good luck!  

If 1 bird has it, it must be the one everyone wants. my birds do the same thing all the time. We were going to add more nest boxes at one point, but why? They prefer 2-3 of the boxes, and that's where they all lay.