So much easier with a broody I can tell you and a lot cheaper too.
I have a feeling that another dominant trait that Tasha will have passed on is broodiness and I am going to be overrun with hens wanting to incubate eggs next year. Hope I'm wrong as two broodies are more than enough for my...
Wow! You are obviously a person who knows what they want! Good luck with that!
I'll just be happy if I keep getting more pullets than cockerels and if they look pretty and/or lay bonny eggs, that will do for me. Unfortunately I don't find the grey barred birds particularly attractive, so...
To be honest, I didn't set out to buy an araucana. My partner has a friend who is a poultry auctioneer and he knew I was expanding my flock and rang us up and said she was there and no one had bid on her and I could have her for £5. She's a scruffy dirty white with the odd black fleck and...
I have a legbar roo and I've crossed him with a hen that I bought at auction as an araucana but she's obviously not pure, maybe some leghorn in there as she has a floppy comb although it's not very big and she lays little ivory eggs instead of blue. Anyway, she hatched 14 of her own eggs. They...