Recent content by aChickted

My brother is in Idaho and going on a road trip! He's graciously offered to pick up well started or adult birds for me on his trip! He will be traveling through: -Billings -Chamberlain -Sioux Falls -Kansas City -Oklahoma City -Dallas Here's my wish list.... it's a bit hefty but thought I'd...

www.briarwoodpoultry.weebly.com ships eggs and chicks from BC

When do these eggs ship? Looking to have eggs shipped May 6-8 if possible :)

Thank you!!! My email must be doing funky things, I never got it! They are not quite 4 months old, so there's lots of time. Thanks again Don't have pics to post, sorry.

When do they get their golden color in the hackles? I have some hatched early Sept, without a sign of Copper at all!

Thanks! Surgery went well

Grandpa goes in to get his fractured hip repaired after suffering with the injury for just over a year. He is a high risk surgical patient but can't continue living with such pain. He is an old farmer, and broke his hip moving cattle last year when a bull charged him. He's still farming - no...

It shouldn't bother her as long as she doesn't have any allergies. Chicken poop is my dog's favourite delicacy.. gag!

Leg feather has really nothing to do with gender. You don't want heavy leg feathering on a marans, just a light amount down the shaft of the leg and outside toe They are usually pretty easy to sexy by a few weeks old!

I have seen a HUGE variation amongst "Golden Cuckoo" marans.......... I don't think they are very well developed in the USA like they may be in France. I have also not really been able to find much/any info online about what chicks look like, if you can feather sex, etc. Being that they are like...

You have to do what you have to do to feel prepared as much as you can be. BUT.. As you say - what if? What if something DOES happen and you have spent the last month before the operation worried sick, too worried to enjoy time with your husband, too worried to notice the crinkles around his...

That it was time to have kids? Hubby and I have been married for over a year now, and although we aren't actively planning any little pitter patter's of tiny feet (other then chicks!!) around the house, we do talk about having kids pretty frequently. He is ready any time, but I am just...

Sorry to hear about your daughter, deep breaths, try not to over react and talk to her doc about what's best for her. Hugs!

Thanks all for the replies re: breeding birchen marans. I have a couple different lines, quality isn't fantastic but they have good body type and size. The eggs they came from aren't the darkest which I found disappointing when I got them, however I will do my best with what I have to start...

Can you use solid blue marans to improve egg color with the blue birchen marans? Seems to be a shortage of blue birchens that actually lay a marans egg...