I was hoping to get your thoughts on my Niederrheiner. He's about 8 months old with a wonderful disposition and looks like a good specimen to me but I may be biased lol ;)
They are gorgeous. I did end up confirming with greenfire that he is in fact a lemon cuckoo Niederrheiner. I was so intrigued with this breed that I just purchased 6 chicks in hopes to at least get a couple hens to breed them. :)
My legbar is from greenfire. It may be that she hatched fertilized eggs from someone who got chicks from greenfire. Every single lemon cuckoo orpington hen or rooster that I have seen does not have the black feathers on the tail or under the neck or wings. Mind you this is a young roo. His...
I got this little one in a batch of chicks I purchased from a breeder. She originally told me it was a lemon cuckoo orpington but every picture I see online that looks like it says it's a niederrheiner? I know this breeder gets hatching eggs occasionally from greenfire farms because I previously...
With all due respect GMO'S (especially coming from purina) are not more nutritious than feed that is milled fresh daily from a multi-certified local feed mill. I have purchased this feed for years and my chickens have all been extremely healthy.
I'd say that I respectfully disagree with you. I was recently given a year and a half old Jersey Giant with a bag of GMO feed. Upon receiving her I noticed that her eggs were enormous. When I opened them they would contain a fully shelled whole egg inside of the larger egg. This occurs when an...
Hi I have a 2 year old Buff Orpington that somehow sustained an injury to her neck inside my coop. I am not sure what happened but she had horrible black bruising around her neck. I took her out of the coop and into my house and put her in a bin and for the last week I have been feeding/watering...