So we hatched 2 chickens 5 months ago and one of them was a mystery till recently, I’m curious if anybody can guess what hybrid this chicken is. Her name is Etta. (we named her after her mom) she was our first chick to ever hatch
I am incubating my eggs that are going to hatch soon and all that I’ve seen have this dark tilted too and light colored bottom. What does that mean. It’s day 3 and I just candled them
So basically we just hatched out mystery eggs from are chickens and we don’t know what they are. We hatched 2 chicks. One of them we KNOW is half Brahma bc she is the only one with her kind of egg but there are roosters that we narrowed down too that have mated with them. Chick number one is...
I just got a new incubator and I’m using it to hatch 2 mystery eggs in curios if anyone has used this brand so I can have some advice
Al info is welcome
I’m in a lot of shock right now because I just figured out that Mark from marks happy hens in Mississippi just passed. If you know him you can say goodbye. Atleast he is not suffering from his heart problems anymore. He shall be missed. If you know him please share your grief ...
This is a thread that I’m gonna start up and see how long it last this is a thread we’re we can tell stories about our flock and our life to other people. I’ll probably be telling y’all stuff weekly or less and bore you with chickens but who cares? Let’s just hang out and talk.
Has anyone had a person that you had help you and other people a lot or a person that you liked on here and they vanish? I have had so many people when I wasn’t a member and a lot are gone now. Can anyone relate to this because I was looking at a post and I realized a person I used to look at...
Ok so we are thinking about starting up a small hatchery next year and we want to sell Easter Eggers in that stock and we have a bunch of different breeds and egg colors so some one pls tell me if I have something that could make an Easter Egger please tell me.
Blue egg layers:
Ameraucana...
Ok so we have Pierre and he is a silver laced Wyandotte x black copper Maran roo and he has been acting bad lately so he’s not in the pecking order he’s kinda a loner but they are scared of you but they only hurt your hens we are probably gonna give him away or sell him sooner or later but he...
Ok so we have a gen. Of chickens and we had one Brahma who is now 7 months old and she has never payed an egg she never been in the nesting box before but today we came in here and she won’t get out of the nesting box and she also flexing her but up and down when she walks like crazy. She will...
Ok so we have some baby chicks and one of them got out of the brooder and it’s missing it’s feathers but the tips are still attached and there’s not a feather to be seen in there so do you know the problem?
Ok so we bought 5 ameraucanas from tractor supply and they’re about 1 week old but one of the ameraucanas is showing barring on some of the feathers. It’s not straight barring thought bc it’s kinda swoovey on it. If is pure how on earth did it develop that?
We have 3 generations of chickens and we are wondering what would happen if we bred these chickens together. There not laying yet, but they will be laying next month or 2 so we are curios what we would get.
If you have info please respond
Ok so I have a lot of chickens that we are gonna breed and we are getting an incubator soon. I would like to know what we would get from our chickens.
Roosters:
Black copper marans
Barred rock
Sliver laced Wyandotte
Easter egger
Olive egger
Sapphire splash
Hens:
Barred rocks
Red sex links...
So I have are rooster captain Tom who is a black copper Marans and we are not planning on doing this cross we’re just curious what it would look like. The Easter egger is half black copper Marans and half wheaten ameracauna. If you have info on this please respond
Ok so we have are Brahma mama who’s 6 months old ( not an actual mama yet) and we have a lot of roasters of diff. Breeds. Wondering what this would make
(Brahma is standing for are partridge Brahma, and sorry for the long post :)
Black copper Marans x Brahma
Barred rock x Brahma
Silver...
My sweet BCM rooster captain Tom was are sweetest rooster ever! But then today I was holding another chicken and he kinda peeled at me but right when I got close to the ground with her he came at me and attacked ( pecked, and kicked some rocks.) And now he’s just chasing me. Do y’all know what’s...