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So kind of a depressing update to make here that goes back to my original post about chronic health issues in hatchery stock. One of my original buff orpington hens is having some issues now as she's approaching 3. I thought she was hard as nails but it just took some chronic issues a while to...

One more update on these pullets. This set of 6 "olive eggers" consisted of 2 solid black pullets and 4 barred ones, and all are laying now. The solid black pullets lay green eggs - one more of a brownish green and one more blue-green. As for the barred ones....I've got 3 brown eggers and the...

I realize I never updated on this thread after being worried about the head dots on the olive egger chicks I got back in July. All pullets as far as I can tell! Haven't got eggs just yet but there's not a single pointy hackle or saddle feather on any of them at 23 weeks old.

Well I guess either way it's wait and see now. Took them far less time than it should have to decide I'm mom. I had to really invest a lot of time to win over several of my original BOs but these chicks just walk into my hand lol.

I didn't know olive eggers could differ like that from hatchery to hatchery. I knew it was a mix, so I guess assuming it would be done exactly the same way everywhere was a bit dumb. I do think mine are from Hoovers. It doesn't say anything about being sex-linked; but it doesn't say anything...

Nooooooooooooo I didn't need more boys dangiiiiiiiiit "When Olive Egger eggs hatch, males often have a white dot on their heads, while females do not." from https://www.freedomrangerhatchery.com/shop/product/olive-egger/ but a bunch of other sites I'm now seeing say the same thing. How did I...

It's not the hatchery side of the shipping I worry about - it's the weird situation of post offices near me. Things don't go directly to my post office from a hub; they have to go through a neighboring town's post office, and that other office is very sloppy. Just since my original post in this...

...so I went out for supplies and groceries and came back with....um.... Earlier in the morning I had the conversation with my husband that if I saw the right thing in the next few weeks we agreed I should get some to avoid having winter house chickens like I did last year (I hatched a couple...

Oh no! That's really sad. I guess they're not really like a sexlinked barnyard mix then. TSC is also where I saw the ones earlier this week.

Oh that is not bad at all! Somehow I had a lot worse numbers in my head for that. I just saw them for the first time this week; had never heard of them before that. Of course, I may never see them in the chick bin again this year now I've had a ponder about them, luck being what it is. I wasn't...

Originally I was going to do purely that and spin up a bachelor flock, but I ended up in my first hatch with two brother roos who are doing the co-management thing with the flock - but that has made it double the roo to hen ratio I wanted. I don't want to break them up because they have gotten...

I am going to need to get some new pullets soon to better balance out my flock. Ideally I want to minimize risk of losing birds to chronic/terminal reproductive issues but most likely will have to get feed store hatchery pullets. For folks who have gotten loads of hatchery birds, are there some...