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It was a young bear that went through the neighbourhood feeding out of wild bird seed stations and chicken food. This is our first spring on the property and we are learning the hard way what the local bears do when they wake up. By the end of this week the chicken coops will be part of the dog...

My girls are 8 weeks old this week and as far as I can tell, all my blue Analusians survived the bear attack. I still can't really tell them apart. They are rarely together (5 blues in all), and so active I am lucky to get an un blurry shot.

I may only have splash or black cockerels in my batch o birds. What criteria can I use to assess their quality for breeding, since blue colour and lacing are not a factor?

I ordered as straight run, so hopefully some boys. I am lucky enough to have a very knowledgeable poultry man as a friend who has judged in shows, so I will have help with stock selection. Yes, this will be my many years project :).

Having caught the chicken bug badly, I ordered an assortment of birds to see what I liked best. But while pouring over pictures of chicken breeds, the Blue Andalusian chickens met many of my 'not very farmish' criteria. They were blue, came in lovely colour variations, were beautiful, and rare...