Recent content by mermaids

What do the lavenders look like as chicks?

What did he grow up to look like?

Well, if I could use the gene equipment in the test lab at work, I could give you a definitive answer! But I doubt they'd let me run expensive tests just for our curiosity Though I'll ask the person running the lab--just in case someday they have another reason to look for non-human DNA to...

Actually I flagged this one but no one took it down!

I keep finding people who won't touch brown eggs! 'Cause you know... "Eggs only come in white, carrots only come in orange, tomatoes only come in red, cows can only be white with black spots... I don't know what animal this brown cow-like thing is."

Yes, flamingos get their pink color from the pink shrimp they eat. Salmon do too. And yes, chickens seem to enjoy eating anything fishy [or just eating anything...]. And afterall, shrimp aren't so distantly related from insects! I'm sure they'd love them. Call me when the violet eggshell...

Can anyone repute or refute this? I had the impression that when a hen lays eggs, it alternates between male and female. For example, if fertilized, today's egg will produce a male chick (Z chromosome), tomorrow's egg will produce a female (W chromosome), etc.

They received the vaccine at the hatchery before I bought them, but they have been sold. I will close the listing as soon as I figure out how.

Thinning my backyard flock. Looking to sell 2-3 of them or just sell all 6 and start over. Healthy, consistent layers of nice eggs, though some are coming out of an early molt. One Brahma, one Delaware, four Dominiques, all came from Cackle Hatchery, hatched April 2015. $10/each OBO

I like the proud look on his face!

Oh I drove my boyfriend NUTS while I was waiting for my chicks to arrive! I was the child in the house. I was in your boat last year. I made up my mind to get chickens last January. I also live in MD so I figured I was in for a wait too. It took me a month to decide on the breed to get. Then I...

Nope, only one yolk in this one. How extraordinary that she will lay eggs in your hand! Ultimate trust.

Three of my Dominiques are laying. Eggs not big at all, and they aren't supposed to be. I don't believe the Delaware hen is laying. But she just started squatting and doesn't do the egg song. Whole flock is the same age--hatched mid-April this year. I continue to get the usual 3 small eggs...

Actually I got on here for the same question. Large, full size egg appeared in nest a few days ago. I presumed it came from my brahma. Even though this would have been her first, she is bigger than the other pullets and she is squatting and sings the egg song.

How high? I have one that's 2ft off the coop floor, another that's 18 inches. She insists going to the top roost. She also insists on perching on my split rail fence! I also have a brahma that's far worse about jumping onto and over fences, and she's even bigger.