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@kittychicks Can you put up a pic of the saddle feathers please?

He is beautiful with the color and high tail!! Gorgeous cross but where did the comb come from?

Yes they are:-) Mine tend to be louder than my large fowl roos.

Yep-definitely male! Pullets don't get the nice big fleshy combs like that. He is a beauty though:-) I don't know if yours would go broody but I have had good luck hatching Sebrights. (If you can keep him)

Layer feed can be started when they are around point-of-lay age, about 5 to 6 months old. You're halfway there! You can let them range on grass or give them grass, corn, scratch and kitchen scraps. Just make sure to give plenty of grit too. I have been letting my sebrights range for half of a...

Gasher's trio enjoying supervised free time today. Hawks have a nest nearby but none were out today. (Gasher's name is from being gashed by a cat as a chick and surviving the deep cut.)

I'd say you'd get a pretty 'bright' chicken! ;-)

Sebrights are known for being hard to raise:-) At least that is what I read before I got them. Gotta have a challenge! Some males will be infertile, it's the breed. Do you have the males split down so you might be able to tell fertility from individuals?

I have two trios right now. They were all together until one cockerel bacame dominant during adolescence and killed the third male I had. The 'killer' is still aggressive and I have to use the poo scooper to push him back when I tend his trio. The other male isn't aggressive at all. I have...

I had just finished a discussion with my child (the SS were 'given' to her after chickens that were her favorite seemed to die after she named them) about seeing how chick sales go this Spring/Summer then deciding whether or not to keep this breed come Fall. We went out to collect eggs from...

I've thought about selling the ss I have. Don't know why but they've just become the least favorite breed. Some folks will call after seeing something else I have for sale and ask about bantams but have never heard of a silver sebright! Oh the joys of raising chickens...

Marbles or rocks in the waterer! Mine tried to go swimming as soon as they were in the brooder. When they are juveniles it would be a good idea to separate them into breeding groups or at least dole out the females with separated males. My alpha juvenile just killed another male the other day...

Mine were a lot tougher than I thought they'd be. We had a spell where it was -25 with the wind chill but I never added heat and there are only sebrights in their bantam coop. During the worst of the windy days I stapled a feed bag over the ventilation on the prevailing side but left the other...

Mine aren't laying yet although at 18 weeks now their comb areas have turned redder and purple on some of the pullets. I've been checking daily since seeing the cockerels trying to do their thing.

She is very pretty and knows how to pose too:-)

Noticed a few days ago that one of the cockerels has mismatched wattles. One is regular and the other is drawn up the way a walnut comb looks. I "gave" the silvers to my daughter when the crevecoeur she chose to claim didn't handle the cold so well. I care for them but they are 'hers' so I'll...

Oh my gosh! I was going by the 6 month estimate so since mine are 13 weeks I'll have to start checking the nest boxes in a few weeks just to be sure:-) The nest boxes are external and have ventilation across the top below the lid so I crammed them full of hay to block wind during the storms. I...

Thank you for adding the quarter in the pic- such tiny eggs! I may worry about the egg turner when I finally get to incubate some. Anyone know if a quail turner is easier on the eggs? I guess sebright eggs would be too big for the quail egg turner but wouldn't the eggs bump to the other sides...

I have the remaining 3 mille fleur bearded duccles in the bantam coop with 7 sebrights. They are hatchmates, together from the beginning. At four and five weeks old the foot feathering was awesome on the millies- by 7 weeks the foot feathers were down to shafts/close to the legs and feet. I...

All the way up until 7 weeks old my silvers didn't want anything to do with me. At seven weeks I put a trio for sale and it seemed like almost instantly all of them don't mind me touching them! For the past few weeks they actually come to me when I'm tending them in the mornings. I was...