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Look like bantam Wyandottes to me.

I have 3 cockerels and 3 pullets from 2 different sources. The one that is aggressive is in with his "brother" and two females from the other breeder. The aggressive boy was the only one that wasn't flighty and I could handle him regularly when he was younger. His brother is flighty, but the...

I've carried him, held him down and all the normal things. I have bantam Cochins, and the boys are not particularly known to always be the nicest so I am used to dealing with their bull.

I think this week is the last week I am going to be hatching out of my own eggs. I have 12 pullets hatched and more than likely around the same number of cockerels now, with over 3 dozen in the 'bator or ready to go in the 'bator Friday night. I think I will be selling some hatching eggs if...

I think it's safe to say at this point Bielefelders have let me down majorly in the temperament department. I literally have the exact polar opposites of what Bieles are supposed to be. The cockerel in my avvie attacks us and another is scared to death of us.

Biel, like Jessica Biel (b-eel) - ah - fell - der. I watch Whisker Wars and the one guy's last name is Bielefelder.

I can't remember what I started with last year, but I know I had at least 50% of my shipped eggs hatch last year. I lost a lot of chicks afterwards, but I am pretty sure it's wasn't health related. I think they were crushing each other even though they had a lot of room, they would pile in one...

I loved everything about my Ameraucanas (also wheaten/blue wheaten from Kat LaDue and Wayne Meredith lines) except I had to have so many to get a decent number of eggs. Selling their eggs and chicks did support my flock for the year, usually. Depended on how many Ameracaunas I kept from the...

I don't mind feeding them as long as they are producing. I wasn't thrilled with 2-9 eggs from my 11-15 Ameraucanas when I had them (for the record, 2-5 was the norm). I have 3 girls, waited 30wks... or 32? ... for eggs and I'm getting 5-11 a week. I don't expect 27 a week, but 15-20 would be...

This week I set 3 eggs, 3 made it to lock down and all three hatched! I got 2 girls and one boy this time around. Like @Candy442 , we are not seeing the benefits of the Bielefelders. We went to TSC and bought some chicks for future egg production. All they had were Buff Orps and Barred...

My three chicks are out. One pullet and two cockerels. Hopefully hatches get better. After waiting 35wks for my birds to lay, and now near 45wks, I am only getting 54-56gr eggs. I had one laid today that I think is a double yolker at 84gr. I'm setting whatever eggs I get. I don't really...

Girls usually feather in faster in most breeds. They will straighten out. Just watch for angel wings, just in case their wings get to far ahead of their bodies. My first chick is out - cockerel. So much for power tools and my idea since they are a whole day and a half early. Of the 11 I...

Bielefelders. Maybe... huge maybe... some Ameraucanas (BBS or wheaten). Lav bantam Cochins... I really don't know. I just know I haven't seen what I want yet, lol!

I kind of dropped off the face of the Earth and forgot I was subscribed to this thread until I went looking for hatching eggs. So, I have been looking at bantam Orps - I need to bring in new bantam choc blood. Seems the birds I got 2, almost 3yrs now, are totally different type then what I...

Mine were around 30wks when they started laying. They are almost 38wks now and still haven't gotten on a schedule. I wish mine had gotten that memo. At 38wks, I have one two cockerels that flip out (#1 boy broke his beak off trying to escape to the pen beside his). My #1 cockerel has the...

I have room, but no one is selling what I am after. ... Donna, I know it says 2014, but is your current breeds actually current-ish?

Oh, what a lovely day! High 40's, sun shining, light breeze... And time to start the biweekly pen cleaning! May as well start moving birds to the other coops, too. I have the big shed (12x30') that has 2 - 4x6' penes, 1 - 4x5 pen, 1 - 4x4 pen and 1 - 4x3 pen, a 6x8 coop with a 6x10 attached...

I re-candled my eggs. Three more of the remaining 8 from week 1 quit. That leaves me with 5 still moving. Week 1 eggs go into lock down on Monday night. The three from week 2 are all veined. I set another 7 from this week.

They are all late June 2015 hatches - they were 1wk apart.

It's been awhile since I've taken pics of my Bielefelders. Figured since I got new bantam Cochins today and I was taking pics of them, I may as well share the boy's pics. This one is my favorite boy. I love his comb. Shame about the frost bit wattles... This is the first guy's...