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6 years ago I bought a small used one on Kijiji for $60 and after using it for 4 years for broody moms and chicks I sold it for $30 and replaced it with ones that I made from free shipping crates. They’re sturdy 4’x4’ boxes to which I added a hinged plywood roof and cut holes for windows that...

This is mother with two daughters both from black rooster. So if I breed back to thir father they will get bigger black patches?

What s the best combination to get nicely marked paints. I currently have three paint hens with a black rooster. If I get a paint rooster can he go with paint hens or should he have black hens?

This is Dolly in the daisies.

They come up on ebay quite regularly. Check under Hatching Eggs.

Thanks Bine. I did do that this summer but I hadn't done it in the spring when I was trying to hatch eggs. He's not a young rooster he's my oldest one. Will be 3 in the spring and he seems to be more interested in food than he is in girls. A couple friends have said I should send him packing...

My Bielefelder are 5 months old today so hopefully in another month he'll show some interest. The buff Orp. roo is with young girls. I have an older blue Orp who has been a real disappointment. Someone suggested that he is too big to breed successfully. The eggs from this year had only about a...

Thanks Jeff. At what age did the rooster start to show interest? I have 4 buff Orps just a little older and the hens started to lay about 4 weeks ago. The rooster is crowing but not interested in the girls.

Hi, I just joined today and was happy to find a thread on Bielefeder. I own a roo and 3 hens which hatched in July of 2015. No eggs yet but the roo has started to crow. So far I have found them to be the fastest growing breed that I have ever owned. They are in a coop of their own and are by...

Two years ago I was breeding Coturnix quail for eggs and it all went well as long as I only kept one male per pen with about 5-6 hens. However I have read many times that if they are given a large enough pen that multiple males can be kept together. This never seemed to work out for me. I had 3...