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I bred my black ameraucana roo to a lavender hen. The chicks were black when born, but now at 12 weeks+ seem to be getting lighter more grayish feathers. Will they be black or lighten up? It was suggested to me when I was looking for ameraucanas to breed the lavender back to black. Why? I...

If so for how long? I've separated my bcm roo with 2 ameracauna hens from the rest of the flock that includes 2 other roos. How long will it be before the eggs that are laid will be from the bcm roo? Just found this link that answers my question, plus other interesting things I didn't know...

I have blown out a few of my Ameracaunas' eggs and wonder if the color will fade or not

I have 3 roos ages, 5+ mths, 8 mths, and 3 years. The hens range from 20 wks. to 8 mths. old. The past couple of days 2 roos have mounted different hens (and not ones that looked most likely to be laying), so my question is does the roos activity indicate that the hens are at pol? Or are...

Thanks to Ivywoods for a gorgeous trio of ameraucanas....1 blk roo now named Marty (the mouth), 1 blk hen named Coretta and a droolious lavender hen called Serena. Also a very pretty (can you call a roo pretty??) bcm roo named Zorro. I can't remember who they were from but whoever...

Got to talking to other sex-link raisers and the question came up as to when did this particular type breeding come about? Undoubtedly it has been occurring since there were 2 different colors of chickens, but as a commercially produced brred.

Do the hatcheries make any statement of average (or guarantee?) of roos to pullets on straight run orders? Friend told me it ran 50/50, but I didn't think that sounded right.

Are there any upcoming chicken meets in NW Ar, also where and when is the poultry show at Fayetteville?

Are chickens a natural anomoly in that they lay regardless of fertilization?

My flock consists of rsl, blk, and wsl now going on 7 weeks old. Originally there was also a Delaware roo, but last week a raccoon got him , so I got a banty roo (since he wasn't very big) to act as mentor. Most of the pullets are larger than he is. Yesterday one of the wsl was pecking very...

Have a 6+ weeks old Indian River (Delaware x New Hampspire) pullet whose legs are getting feathers. A "Silkie" in the wood pile?

I bought "Indian Rivers" (Delaware x New Hampshire) chicks (pullets) and I thought they would be red....and the roos white, but the pullets are white. I also ordered a Delaware cockerel who is also white. They painted his comb area red to differentiate between him and the pullets. My...

I found the remains of my 5 week old Delaware roo this afternoon sometime between 2:30 and 5.. He was headless and had apparently been pulled head up to the fence . The pen is fenced with cattle panels covered with 1"x4" welded wire with chicken wire on top of that and is about 32' x 40'...

My 5 week old chicks have to be kicked out of the coop every day. After they're out they are fine, chicken games galore, graze, etc. etc. and come evening they go back in. I haven't any older chickens to show the way, but they will sit in the pop door way and look out, but forget about taking...

I keep reading about giving liquid vitamins (like tri-vi-sol, poly-vi-sol,etc.) to young chicks in their water, but how much vitamins to what quantity of water?

My chicks are a week old today and all are doing well except for one of the Delaware x Hampshire chicks. She was as big as the others, but now she is the runt. Yesterday after returning from shopping......we have to go 35 miles one way for more than basics.......I realized she was not leaving...

Hope this is the right place for this question. Are the black sex-linked and red sex-linked the same as the black star and red star? Or are these just the names the individual hatcheries use for their hybrid crosses, but for the same crosses?

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Had chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys back in the '70s & '80s . (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Am waiting for chickies to arrive about the 21/22 of this month!!!!!! Ordered 16. (3) What breeds do you...