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Distinctive chipmunk stripes/eye stripes, but also a dot on the head. Roo or pullet??

Thank you for your response! Last hatch, I opened the door between the brooder and large pen after a week and it was another week before momma brought her chicks out. I’m thinking about moving broody #2 into an opposite corner with her eggs today and monitoring. They’re so intent on setting that...

Hi friends! I have a setup of two separate pens and runs—one for my cream legbars, and one for my whiting true blues and other breeds I cross with them. I also have a separate 3x6 brooder box. I currently have one broody on eggs that should start hatching tomorrow in the brooder box, and I...

Y’all are the best! And I have so much to learn. Since this is from a farmers co-op in Oklahoma, the ingredients are all things we grow around here. The milo is red milo grain, and the wheat is hard red wheat. Does that improve the feed’s nutritional value any? 🥴 I’ll see if I can find...

Thank you for analyzing the blend for me! It sounds like you’re very knowledgeable! Now that I know what the breakdown is for this feed, will you please share what a feed should be? We live in rural Oklahoma and do not have feed mills in our area. This was mixed by a farmers co-op who mainly...

Hi friends! I bought some whiting true blue and whiting true greens from mcmurray last spring and they threw in 4 bonus chicks. I see now why some people request to not get any extra. Identifying them is quite the task! We ended up with an extra WTB Roo, an australorp, a buttercup, and I thought...

Hi friends! We have decided to move away from commercial feed and have our feed blended at a local co-op so we can buy in bulk totes to store in our barn. The co-op does not have a specific blend they offer, but we were given a 16% "recipe" from a friend which we recently had the coop blend for...

That helps so much! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Does anyone have experience breeding a Whiting True Blue Rooster with Creme Legbar hens? I know the eggs will be blue, but I'm wondering if the offspring will be auto-sexing like the Creme Legbars? 🤞🏻 (One can dream.)

Hi friends! I am new to WTBs and I'd love to offer hatching eggs as well as chicks from my flock. I'm wondering what to look for in my birds/eggs/roosters to produce the best offspring. I have two roosters (one gray, and one multicolored) and 6 hens. Since they are all so very colorful, I don't...

Thank you so much for your response!! I love that people will take time to help others out here. I'm new to WTBs so I'm still trying to learn what is desirable in them (besides bright blue eggs!) I have two roosters that are almost 1 year old. One is almost solid gray, the other is...

Hi friends! I have whiting true blue hens and roosters and would like to sell the fertilized eggs for hatching. The prices I’m finding online are anywhere from $40 a dozen to $10 an egg 😮. I’ve never sold hatching eggs so I’m at a loss on pricing. I would also like to sell the true blue crosses...

Thank you so much!! I feel much better! I’m about to separate the roosters to control breeding for hatching eggs so hopefully they’ll heal up quickly without someone to fight with.

The more I’ve researched, the less likely I think it is! So let’s talk flea treatment. I try to keep DE in their dust bath area but in the winter, I have a hard time remembering while I’m cooped up myself avoiding the cold. I read that wood ash is good, too. I gave the coop a good cleaning and...

If it happens to be fowlpox, how does one treat it?

Just this one bird has the white spots. The other looks more like a white dusting. The black spots were first, then the white showed up. I didn’t see fleas when I was checking under the feathers, but I wasn’t looking specifically for them. Just kinda checking to see if anything looked off. My...

My roosters have black spots on their combs, and now they have some white. They’ve been vaccinated. Could it be from mites? Or fungus? Some of the black spots will scratch off, but the roo did not like me messing with them. Any suggestions on doctoring, care, and prevention? Thanks, friends!