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figured i d give you guys an update on my hen. as i think i mentioned before she is a americana X new hampshire red that we hatched from one of our own eggs. She gave us a great surprise a couple mornings ago. A green egg! followed by another the next morning. glad that trait caried through from...

thanks guys. any guesses on the chances of an american X newhampshire red hen laying colored eggs?

sorry... not sure why it posted the same picture 6 times.....

I tried my hand at letting our hens hatch a few eggs on their own. Rooster is an Americana and hens were most likely black australops, or Rhode Island reds, or new Hampshire reds. The new Hampshire hen did the most of the incubating along with 2 black australops double teaming the nest box next...

i dont know. i would guess all of their sales are final and they wont be of any help to me at all. we are going to keep one of the easter egger cockerels. we think he is really pretty. and so far he seems to be the most gentle with the other hens. we ll see!

thank you. i was afraid of that myself. 8 out of 16 new chicks this year out of the "pullet container" have turned out to be cockerels. not very happy with rural king to say the least..... oh yeah, almost 8 weeks old

4 new "pullets" i purchased to replace 4 pullets that turned out to be cockerels in my first batch for this year. What do you think? All pullets or cockerels? hoping for hens!~

thank you! i m hoping to keep one. the silver one seems to be much more dominant than the darker red one.

We picked up 12 more "layers" to add to our flock early this spring 4 black australops, 4 new hampshire reds, 2 silver laced wyandots, and 2 auracanas. All were supposed to be pullets. Clearly not true because we have 2 black australop roos, a rooster i m not sure of the breed, and one that i...

thank you! anybody agree or disagree? i was leaning towards cockerels myself. any ideas on breed of the second?

We picked up 12 more "layers" to add to our flock early this spring 4 black australops, 4 new hampshire reds, 2 silver laced wyandots, and 2 auracanas. All were supposed to be pullets. Clearly not true because we have 2 black australop roos, a rooster i m not sure of the breed, and one that i...

i dont know if this is correct or not, i m about 9 months into this job of raising chickens and ducks. so take my opinion for what its worth. i have 3 male khaki campbell ducks, 1 male runner duck, 1 male pekin duck, 3 plymoth barred rock hens, and 4 rhode island red hens..... they are in one...

i talked to my vet, he is a bird vet, and he said he guessed it was something respiratory and he would test the poop for me if i wanted but guessed it was respiratory. he is giveing me something to treat that. my wife is picking it up, i dont remember what he prescribed. hope he is right and...

i d guess you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the height of your roost poles inside vs the ones outside. from what i have learned birds prefer to roost at the highest point possible. maybe if you could get the inside roost bars higher, or outside roost bars lower, they will roost inside

thanks a lot corri. i m guessing this is something that could infect the hole flock ??

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I have searched a lot and still havent 100% found my answer. I have a plymoth barred rock hen that started out acting a little lethargic. the next day i noticed some poop on her tail feathers near her vent. it was a yellow/green liquidy poop. she has lost a lot of weight. i put her in a cage...

good point talkalittle. i would consider my run pretty secure. it is made of dog fence. like the chain link fence. i just wish they wanted to stay inside the coop.

dang. guess i m just worrying too much then. maybe i should build them another roost outside. i thought about putting a real low watt soft white light on a timer inside the coop to come on at dusk and stay on for a few hours to help bring them back inside at night.

this is my first year raising chicks. i started out with 28 meat birds and 6 ducks. 3 weeks after i got them i got 4 rhode island reds, 3 plymoth barred rocks, and 1 more duck. the younger birds have been in their own part of the coop seperated from the older birds until about a week ago when i...