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If you have pullets, you are wondering when they should start laying, but how do you know they are ready to lay or already are laying. If you think your pullets are close to laying you have to look for these clues.
1: Red face with big comb and wattles.
You should be able to tell when your...
The Red Sex link is a hybrid meaning that they are not a breed of chicken and cannot produce a red sex link by crossing both of those breeds together. This usually makes the Red Sex Links useless for breeding since they can't produce another purebred. However, two purebreds were originally...
If you are looking for great egg-laying chickens here are the top best 10!
1: Red Sexlink
Egg-size: x-large
Egg production: 300+ per year.
Weight: 5 lbs
Broody: rarely/never
Disposition: excellent
Personality: Docile and easily tamed.
2: Rhode Island red:
Egg-size: x-large
Egg production...
I have decided to create a thread about raising baby chicks up to when they hit 8 weeks of age for if your hatching your own eggs or buying your chicks from a hatchery. When getting baby chicks it is better not to handle or touch them the first day if you are buying them from a hatchery. It can...
If you get cold winters and need chicken that tolerate the cold where you live, then I've I have a list of ten that get along with it excellent.
1: Sex link
Class: Unknown
Egg-size: large
Use: eggs
Disposition: excellent
Personality: Strong, tough and rugged/docile
2: Brahma
Class: asian...
Rhode Island Red History:
The Rhode Island Red is a chicken breed that developed in America in the early nineteenth century.
It developed in the state of Massachusetts and Rhode island by crossing breeding birds of oriental origin such as the Malay with brown leghorns birds from Italy. This...