Recent content by daharja

Hi, I have 17 chooks (males and females from one big incubation) all doing well in one enclosure, born early February, about 8 of which I'm guessing now to be roosters (6 definite, 2 maybes). So far they all seem to be getting along fine, but a few questions (I'm new to this - first time...

Our barnies and barnie crosses are just on a month old (first one hatched Jan 30th) and I'm starting to see gender differences. It's fun to play "pick the roo!" I've got 17 birds all all - all barnies and barnie crosses, except for one rhode island red. Must post photos!

Yep, definitely a cross. They look like the cross I got between my barnevelder roo and my leghorn ladies. That said, the chicks are now showing beautiful creamy white double lacing in their teen wings. I'm real keen to see how they turn out as adults, and hoping most are hens, rather than...

Just a newbie here (*waves*) coming in late on the conversation. I've got 1 barnevelder roo in with 12 hens, and when we hatched out our eggs, we ended up with 75% hatching. So if you have a good roo in there, clearly one roo for 12 works beautifully. None of our hens had any sore backs or...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help with this please? I've been busy hatching out new chicks, and everything has gone really well until the last few days. As well as using 15 of our own fertile eggs (cross bred with barnevelder rooster), we bought 6 barnevelder eggs from one breeder, and...

We've found the same thing - lowering the temperature in the incubator is giving us more females than males. Anyone know if it works for all breeds, or just purebreeds though? We've found so far it's working for our crosses (barnevelder crosses) but our purebreeds are due to hatch soon and am...

Well, I guess that's it then. My four year old daughter can't collect the eggs in the morning - a job she dearly loves. I wonder - do ANY of these politicians have brains?