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That is a good point. I remember Golden Comet being referred to as Hubbard's Golden Comet, obviously proprietary like the ISA Brown. It's all in the genetics, thus the variation in egg production, temperament, etc. One of my most evil chicks was a "production" white leghorn from McMurray...
Cackle Hatchery sells Rhode Island White chicks. On their breed descriptions they mention what cross their sex link chicken are comprised of. That hatchery crosses Production Red and RIW for Cinnamon Queen and RIR and RIW for Golden Comets. Red Sex Links are different still. Moderator Fred...
I have 12 Golden Comets in my mixed flock of 39, plus one duck. 4 are almost 2 years old, the other 8 are last year's chicks. About a month or so ago several of the last years (I band them to tell them apart) started attacking the duck in groups, also other chickens. When at the feed store I was...
I was wondering if anyone tried to put chicks 4-5 days old under broody hen other than day'olds? Have a broody and haven't made it to the feed store, they are 4 days old today...the next shipment comes in next week, not sure if she'll still be broody then, she's been sitting about 2 weeks already.
Yes, this crazy weather has gotten the girls a bit upset but they are troopers and are laying at least 2 dozen per day out of the 43 of them. It didn't help that the breaker flipped on the GFI outlet unnoticed for a few days and they had no light come on from 4-7am as is usual. Fighting the urge...
It looks exactly like my presumed "free exotic" from mcmurray! I say presumed because it doesn't look like anything I ordered. Mine has green legs, but no muff, so is not an ee.
Good tip on the Vicks, I will try that if any pecking restarts. The leghorn that got put down, it pecked at wings, beaks, eyes, everything. Mean little bugger. It was the commercial strain pearl white from McMurray. The other one I got from them is behaving itself after a beak trim.
Cuckoo marans have white shanks, barred rocks are yellow. The black on the shanks disappears on both breeds are they get older, but you can see the white or yellow underneath the black. Hard to tell in the photo which this one has.
Look at the tail feathers. Pulletts grow wing and tail feathers out much faster than cockerels. Especially if you are looking at chicks of the same age and breed, you should be able to spot the boys from the girls, as the girls will have tails sticking up and their wing feathers will start to...
I had a 3-week old white leghorn chick that drew blood and pecked at all the other chicks in various places. It got culled. No more bloody butts now. Remember, if you let this behavior go on, it will get picked up by the others.
One also has to be mindful of restrictive covenants in their subdivisions, even though a city approves chickens, they may have a restriction in the area of the city they live. We have a 30-year old covenant here in the unincorporated area where we live, a semi-rural area, but it is in there...
My bad. I didn't get that so many had died. I got a 3-legged cornish from McMurray this year, so either the strain of bird is bad or too much inbreeding?
Bigred, you got 100 chicks and are unhappy with 2 of them??? Don't you think you're being a bit picky here? As long as the majority of your birds are healthy, 2 birds being smaller and "weaker" should not upset you. They will catch up to the others soon enough, at the rate they grow!!!
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Sometimes my green eggs have brownish speckles...not attractive. My welsummers also had speckles that were not attractive...so my point is, you may get speckled eggs but not pretty ones.