This is precisely why I got the breed. All my other breeds are dual purpose, and horrible at paying their rent(eggs). Now Hopefully I hatch a BL rooster. Next Saturday is hatch day.
RIR, Barred Rock, Buckeye, Silkie EE, EE, Welsummer, Brown Leghorn, White Leghorn or Lavender Orpington. I lost my SF roo and just looking for ideas on who to put them with. They are currently in with my RIR.
This is my duck hut I built by myself since the hubby is always working. It's a repurposed swimming pool frame, repurposed skids, recycled metal roofing we got for free 😃 all I've had to buy so far is the screws, sheeting screws, hinges and L brackets to sturdy the door. The large logs on the...
So I'm super excited. My Welsummer has laid her first egg finally. I bought 5 hens and 5 roos in April and I'm down to the single pair. So the question is does this look fertile to you. It looks like the "start" of a bullseye to me?
I just came across this post. I just wanted to share my experience with the whole medicated chick feed/layer feed. I start all chicks with a big bag of medicated chick feed once that is gone they switch to layer crumbles or pellets depending on what I have available. (Feed store usually only has...