Hi Everyone!
I am searching for grey silkie hatching eggs. If you have any leads, i'd love to hear them. I would like breeder or show quality stock please.
Hi, I am looking to purchase frizzled blue egg gene hatching eggs or chicks in early spring. I do not want EEs/Americanas. I would like a true blue egg gene breed- either Ameraucana, Araucana, or CCL.
Do you breed these or know someone that does? It is proving difficult to find. Thank you!
I had a buff laced polish I crossed to my barred rock hen and I got a rooster from the crossing. I want to try crossing that rooster back to my WCB Polish hen. What can I expect from this? I'd love polish-looking chickens that are not entirely black. **I do not know how to make the pictures...
Okay I am hoping someone can help. I have a roo that is a cross between a barred rock hen and a buff laced polish roo. He is a barred roo. I was thinking of breeding him back to a WCB Polish hen. Would the chicks be 50% black and 25% barred and 25% buff/black? I tried to do a genetics chart but...
I am new to silkies. I have 5 that I got from a breeder last summer. I want to start raising silkies and would like to do a dozen hatching eggs this spring/summer if and when a hen goes broody. There are not show quality silkie breeders near me and the two farms I'm considering buying hatching...
Here is Solstice. What breed does he/she look like? The mother is an Auracana/silkie cross(lays xl green blue eggs) and the roo is a blue copper maran. Thanks!
Can I put my chicks in the big coop with the big girls at 6-8w old or do I need to wait? 5 hens and 1 roo and then I’m adding 10 babies.
If I add them at 6-8w do they need to be sectioned off for awhile? If I section them off will the other chickens just clim on the roost bar are drop in to...
Number of chicks: 10
Brooder location: garage
Weather: Last week of March in SE Michigan
We are getting 10 chicks the last week of March. We will keep them inside for 1 week in a storage plastic tub. I need to make something for when they are 1w-6(or 8)w.
I have a chicken tractor outside for...
Our coop we are. Holding has an enclosed run due to a fox problem. The run has hardware cloth at the bottom/on the ground and chicken wire up the sides and it is covered. Does the chicken door that is inside the run need to have a cover still?
About the window: the coop is 8x7. One side has a...