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I need to rehome beautiful, 6-month old Black Copper Marans rooster that I named Roo Paul. Broody hatched on 7/24/23 from lovely dark brown speckled eggs I got from a local breeder, who had selected the parent chickens for very dark egg color. His father is a BCM and his mother is a blue birchen...

Looking for a home for my "Brahmarochin" cockerel, who is 1/2 Dark Brahma, 1/4 Black Copper Marans, and 1/4 bantam Cochin. Parent pics are below. His mom, Bettina, is the sweetest lap hen ever, and his pop, Diego, is gentle on the ladies, easy to handle, and popular with at least some of the...

I've been slow to get my head around most genetics posts, so rather than trying to find the answer in those already out there, I'm starting my own specific one. I have a frizzled bantam cochin. Two years ago, she hatched two of her eggs, bred by a BCM rooster, who now lives on a cattle ranch...

I am searching for good homes for my beautiful, non-aggressive, part-bantam cockerels (young roosters). The eggs were from my own hens and fertilized by my breeder-quality, Black Copper Marans, Desi Arnaz Rooster, and were broody-hatched on 8/23. One mom is a bantam frizzled cochin, and her...

I am looking for a new home for Desi Arnaz Rooster, my one-year old, breeder-quality, Black Copper Marans, broody-hatched from a Papa's Poultry egg. He is pretty docile, not at all aggressive to adults or kids or other chickens, and lets me put him in his mancave at night without a fuss. He...

Hi, I have some beautiful almost-11-week-old cockerels, broody hatched 8/23-27. The eggs were from my own hens and fertilized by my BCM roo, Desi. The two pure BCM cockerels have just gone to a great home, and now I'm trying to find a loving home for the crosses, which are my favorites! One...

I have some 10-week-old cockerels, broody hatched 8/23-27. The eggs were from my own hens and fertilized by my BCM roo, Desi. Two cockerels are pure BCM, and the others are really nice crosses - one with a dark brahma, one with a bantam frizzled cochin (Diego is not frizzled but might carry...

In January, I adopted two 2-year-old hens from a couple who wanted a break from chicken-keeping. They were finishing up their first molt. The non-Ameraucana, Marsha, (same coloring, but different comb, no beard, cream-colored egg), started laying after about a month, but the Ameraucana, Jan...

Hi, I adopted two hens this week whose people wanted a break from chicken-raising. They both looked healthy to me and their set up was very nice and near where I live. However, just today I noticed that one of the hens (Marsha) has a little black bump on her beak, next to her nostril. It is...

Hi, I have 2 broody-hatched BCM chicks (shipped eggs from breeder) that are 4.5 weeks old in this photos, 5 weeks old tomorrow. I tried to wing-feather test them at about 2 days old and #2 (Daisy) tested female and #1 (Ida or Idaho) was undetermined. Ida is #1 because she hatched one day...

The heading pretty much sums it up. I had 1 chick hatch on day 20, and 1 on day 21. It's now almost 23 days, and there are no signs of life from the other eggs, which are currently getting knocked around a bunch in the nest, while the broody moms teach the chicks to scratch. They were still...

Hi, I have two broodies sitting on 6 eggs, due today. The first apparently hatched last night. I was hand-feeding the broodies in the nest, and it crawled out all adorable, but then the broodies started pecking at it until it crawled back under! Is this normal?? Do I need to be worried or...

Hi, I have 2 broodies sitting on 6 eggs that are at day 18 now. They are in the nest box and there are two other hens in the larger coop/run, who have been mostly staying out of the way, now, but I have lost 2 eggs that were crushed by another hen. So, while my hens get along very well, I'm...

Hi I am doing my first broody hatch, and this one is a team effort that started out with one broody and quickly moved up to 2. So, I now have 8 eggs under 2 broodies. They seem to move the eggs between them a fair amount, and often when I check on them, I can feel the eggs right on the edge of...

My favorite hen, my brahma Bettina, hasn't laid in several days now. She's only a year old, and has been laying for only about 5 months. She's normally a very reliable layer of jumbo, pretty, speckled eggs. She's acting completely normal, other than the lack of eggs, and appears healthy. I...

I've been waiting for the last two of my five hens to start laying, and on their 10-month hatch-date, I saw a fourth egg in the nesting box. I had thought that one of the two, Frida, was a Bantam Marans (she has lightly feathered legs), and the other is definitely a Brahma, so imagine my...

Hi, I am almost done constructing my coop/run for my first flock of 5 chickens. I built it under my deck, using the existing structure as the frame, and it's about 5' x 25', give or take (all one open-air structure, enclosed with hardware cloth, with no separate coop since I live in a temperate...

Hi, I just got my first chickens and I'm very excited about them. I got them from a local woman who has only been raising chickens for a year, and she got these as little babies from someone else, I think, as a straight run. She had tried to sex them, but wasn't 100% sure. I really hope...