Recent content by SwanRidge

My two cents on your egg colors: I always had EE roos with my other flocks and had several clutches of "homegrown" mixed breed chicks (both incubator and hen raised.) My EE roo crossed with a dark brown egg layer such as my Welsummer produced an olive egger. With lighter colored browns there...

Hello all, checking in from the Columbia Falls area. I am expecting up to 25 Icelandic (Viking) chicks in late June from Whipoorwill Farm in WI. I have had several different breeds before and love chicken keeping. Looking very forward to having them again after a year without.

Thank you everyone! I'm glad I finally signed up. Michael, I'm receiving 25 chicks from David Grote at Whipoorwil Farm in WI the second to last week in June. I don't plan on becoming a "breeder" necessarily but hope to supply the Flathead area with chicks or hatching eggs when I can. I don't...

Hi all, New to Backyard chickens but I have "other animals" too! I currently raise Jacob Sheep, have two Border Collies, a Boston Terrier, an Old Fashioned German Shepherd, three cats, a Missouri Foxtrotter mare, and will be getting a bunch of Icelandic chicks in the mail in June! Can't wait. ;)...

Hello all, I got an email saying I should introduce myself, so here I am. :) I used to have a flock of around 25 various chickens (I like eye candy and variety), 12 American Buff geese, and various ducks here and there. We recently moved and I had to give them all up and have been without since...