I love having an assortment of colors. Right now I have
Light Brahmas
Buff Brahmas
Danish Brown Leghorn
Ameraucanas
Easter Eggers
Black Sex Links
Brown Red Old English Game bantams
Silver Duckwing Old English Game bantams
A mix of the two said above ^
Japanese Bantams
Silver Sebright Bantams
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I had one of my hens hatch out her own chicks, and she's been a really good mother so far. I tried to get my other hen to adopt chicks, but she didn't accept them. She's still broody, and is putting up a fight to stay that way. I'm not sure why people say Sebrights aren't broody, because 2/2 of...
When mine were teenagers, they would all sleep on my lap every night, but they soon died off from predators. Even though they were amazing, I wouldn't get them again because I want to experience more breeds.
I've only had one adult black australorp (BA), but she was the sweetest thing. I got her as an adult along with 4 other breed hens. She was the only sweet one. She let me hold her, etc. Very soon after getting her, she went broody and was the best mother I've had. Definitely recommend for...
For some reason, In my experience, Ameraucanas have just been more docile. Even they come from the same order, and breeding place, I've just found EEs to be more skittish. Also, people commonly mistake them for an actual breed. An Easter Egger is an Ameraucana that doesn't fit the breeding...
Well i have an extremely mixed flock of over 32 chickens, and she does fine with all of them. My one hen is kind of a loner, and prefers to be by herself, but when around the others, she does very well. She had previously hatched out chicks that were half Old english and half japanese bantam...
I already have quite of few nesting boxes in the coop, but I've had my fair of chickens hide in dark places. For instance, my Japanese hen hid under the horse barn, and I thought she was dead. To my surprise, she came out 3 weeks later with 8 chicks. I really hope this doesn't happen with the...
Hi, I'm getting ducks today, and I've read and experienced a lot about broodiness. I've heard that most of the time ducks will brood in a quiet place outside. But in my case, I live on 11 acres, and snakes and predators pose a threat. Is there any advice about this? I've heard you can put...
My hen will literally walk up to me with the intention of being held The same hen had disappeared for about 4 weeks, and then I walked into my horse barn and she had 8 chicks! Sneaky girl. She raised them with gentleness and carefulness. My rooster is also super nice. My OEGB are the nicest...
I used to have around 5 or 6 barred rock hens, and they were such a blast. If you start taming when chicks, they should be very nice birds when older. Mine laid a lot of eggs, and are great foragers. Totally recommend.
Ha! Seems like you probably wouldn't want those roosters to reproduce... I have 3 Japanese hens, and they haven't gone broody yet, but also thats becasue they literally just reached adulthood. If you want to have more Japanese babies, I recommend getting a whole other hen to lay on their eggs...
I think you got the lethal gene part wrong. Almost all Japanese have short legs beacause of their regular genes, but the lethal gene causes 25% of chicks to not hatch.