Recent content by Flaming Chicken

11 year veteran coming back after a hiatus. I had up to 50 chickens and it was feeling a bit like a job. Now I’m down to 14 older chickens and looking to add a few cream Legbar and rhodebar againg.

Raccoons are the worst! I had my own flock nearly destroyed by raccoons before I built fort Knox. Lucky survivors to be able to come live with you! Your friends chickens might be carriers but not showing any symptoms. The stress of moving to a new home and new flock could bring out hidden...

I have an awesome Rhodebar broody. She is raising 4 pullets and 1 cockerel. She hatched some and took on 3 more after I moved the eggs to the incubator. The chicks are Rhodebar also. So lovely to watch a nice mommy hen cluck over her chicks. No worries for me over heat lamps and power outages.

My Rhodebar broody is just the best. Not only is she a great mom, but out of 6 eggs, 1 was a dud, 1 is a cockerel and 4 are pullets! They have hatched over 9 days and the later hatchers have hatched in the incubator, but she doesn't care, she loves and cares for them no matter where they...

Many of us with big crested CLB are dealing with floppy and twisted combs. I just looked at 6 Jill Reese cockerels with floppy combs and came home empty handed. I am currently growing out 2 cockerels, one has the smallest of crests and a reasonable straight comb, the other has a large crest...

The sport white Cream Legbar do lay blue eggs. My friends whites are just chicks and not at POL yet. If you breed a cross male to a Sport white female you may introduce a different color egg gene. I know some EE's lay brown eggs and some Cream Legbar lay white or brown eggs. At some point...

This year I am seeing between 10 and 20% whites. I have a mixed line flock, so the coloring of my males is all over the map. I had a couple whites hatch 2 years ago. I switched roosters last year and had no whites. I sold last years rooster and clearly the son that I am breeding from has the...

Here are some pictures of my 5 week old chicks. I posted pictures of this little one on Face book. At first I thought it was a cockerel because it's missing the clear chipmunk stripes, also missing a white spot so I wasn't sure. Turned out to be this lovely little pullet in picture #3...

Thanks for the tip!

I was out taking pictures with the breeding flock tonight. This is my broody. She is on Day 18 and has 5 eggs under her. I separated an area for her using feed bags so she gets some privacy for the last 3 days. I don't have very good luck with broodies. She is hanging in there though...

I wonder about that too. I have a hard time following the 4 threads that I know of. There might be others that I haven't discovered.

What an interesting rooster! If he is pure, he is missing a bunch of barring on his wings and chest to start. I personally would not breed him but he would be great for your plan of producing blue egg layers (if he has the blue egg laying gene).

I have several standard cream legbar pullets available, one has gold hackles.though and shouldn't be used for breeding. I also have 2 white sport cockerels that my daughter insisted we keep but I would be happy to part with. I have been selling hatching eggs and fertility is very good. Please...

Hi Cadbury, So great to see you here! I recognize those chickens. They came from my flock. The rooster is actually from 2013. He arrived from Greenfire in August of 2013 so he will be 2 later this summer. And the girls were hatched May 1st of 2014. So sorry about the sinus infection...