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Nice juveniles! And don't be surprised when your DH starts taking over the care of the birds (like mine did)! I never complained when he started rising at 5 a.m. to let them out and feed them and collect their eggs. He even cleans out their coop and pen. He loves those little fluffies as...

TY! Which one is the breed that can be crested? Ice's or SFH's? Babies are always so cute! Partridge females like Welsummers or Silkies will have females that have a dark chipmunk stripe down the middle of the head down the back. Would it be safe to identify females the same way with...

Well, he certainly is so-o-o handsome! Icelandics and SFHs are landrace feathered and I can't tell them apart at first glance. How would you distinguish SFHs from Icelandics at first glance?

Beautiful birds! How old are they? Does the rooster wear out the single lone hen? Usually roos need more than one hen. Besides his annoying crowing we had to re-home a Silkie cockerel that was wearing out one single female pullet. He was sweet but really needed more females for his randy...

If you have the space for enough layers and have relaxed restrictions selling backyard eggs, then you could help alleviate some of the costs for keeping chickens. "Love" is the operative word. We love our small backyard flock of different breeds and with housing, feed, treats, accessories, vet...

You just have late-bloomers then. My Breda are slow-maturing but once they start laying they never quit! I lost one Breda hen from exhaustive laying for 10+ consecutive months her pullet year and she keeled over dead suddenly. Sometimes I would rather have a sporadic layer and have the...

Trigger is such a perfect name! I don't have a SFH but a Cuckoo Breda pullet that does the funny hop-skip-gallop when she runs because of feathered feet. She too is a breed that takes time to mature before POL but we owners feel our girls are worth the wait - eh?!

Make sure they aren't hiding them somewhere in the yard?

The USPS cries boo-hoo that they are losing money -- no wonder with the lousy service they show. I have had luck with 3 to 4 month old shipments but refuse to order chicks by postal.

Tom cats will breed more tom cats to come back to haunt your future flock. I never release but take them to the Humane Society or other appropriate organization. If the original owner is responsible s/he will check with local organizations to find their missing pet; otherwise releasing a stray...

This is the vaulted skull presumably of a Silkie that shows the open skull cavity that exposes the brain tissue under the thin scalp skin. There are varying degrees of vaulting from very little brain exposure to much brain exposure where there is less skull bone protecting the tissue as in this...

TeeHee - I posted a reply to your above same post on A Bielefelder Thread (Post #4369)!! BTW, GL w/your project!!!

I've been using these for years for our Silkies that don't roost on perches but on the floor. A little straw in the litter box and they're happy as clams and keeps them off of dirty coop floors. Carrier kennels are nice too because they have more ventilation on the top half of the litter box...

See if this youtube video titled "How to tell a rooster from a hen in 2 month old chicks" if it helps you ID your chicks - I found it useful:

How nice to get some cresteds! I seldom see a crested roo!

If you live in SoCalif I know someone who's selling GFF Svart Hona chicks (Swedish Black Hens) that are related to Ayam Cemani - no shipping/pickup only. PM me if you wish

All 4 of my hens (various breeds and a couple Silkie bantams) sleep in the nestboxes and have ever since we got the little coop 4-1/2 yrs ago. Even the roo slept in a nextbox when we had him before re-homing him. The boxes are very large 16"x16"x21/2 feet tall so we once found 4 girls sleeping...

I personally don't care to receive shipped birds in the Fall - our weather is too unpredictable in the Fall. I let my breeders know that for our climate anywhere from March to end of June is best for shipping juveniles but I had one group shipped as late as first week of August and that was the...

13 hrs to 55 hrs are the time ranges that I have received shipped birds. I won't order chicks this way since chicks are so delicate and "iffy" but juveniles to adults travel surprisingly well. My very first time receiving juveniles I kept contacting my local post office for pickup and the...

Yeah, if it's something you haven't done before it seems overwhelming, expensive, time-consuming, etc - one of my favorite breeders started by only shipping hatching eggs and wasn't sure about live birds - now she does it all the time like a champ. Going through the initial research is not as...