Recent content by CarronJune

I'd like to know how young a rooster is before he can fertilize eggs. I have Seabright bantees that are about 7 months old. I put 18 eggs in the incubator 8 days ago. We incubated 8 eggs from normal size chickens and they hatched fine, but these look like they might have blood rings around...

I incubated 7 eggs from my neighbor and they are now 3 months and 1 week old. Two of them are Rocks, you know, with the specks all through them. They seem to have matured faster than the other 5. The rooster has a beautiful comb already, but so does the female, only smaller. The rooster has...

My husband brought Seabright bantem chickens home one day and we've been hooked ever since. There are 4 hens and 1 rooster in the Golden Seabrights, and 1 hen and 1 rooster in the Silver Seabrights. They started laying eggs Dec. 14th. Today I went to gather eggs, the usual 3 or 4 we've been...