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I will buy my rooster(s) from a different source. I don’t want to breed RIR to sell but I want to have the option of selling. I want to breed my own chickens for the next 25+ years, so I’m not just talking about breeding 1-2 generations of RIR. I want to know how many roosters with different...

I plan on buying 24 fertilised RIR eggs and putting them in the incubator, I want to keep my RIR’s pure but I‘m worried about genetic diversity when I breed them. Will genetic diversity be ok or will I need to buy more from another source.

If your cat is healthy again and if he gets on well with the chickens try locking him in with the feed overnight, your cat won’t get bored that’s for sure!

I love my cats but I don’t let them outside because their are too many beneficial little critters that they like to hunt, but I need them to hunt the mice because the mouse traps I have can’t keep up. The way I have my chickens set up at the moment is they have a shed that they roost and lay in...

i had a look at the dorking and he has only got 4 toes.

WOW! thats one fine looking bird ( and the roosters looks good too). LoL Seriously though the colours are amazing, he even looks better than my rooster (the one that’s my avatar).

i looked into them, the first 1 is the red sex link cockerel. and the second 1 is without a dout a silver dorking. the SD looks just like the 5 genorations of cockerels he comes from that i have had under my ownership.

thanks for the speedy reply, i will go google those breeds.

i have two roosters that i dont know the breeds of. this rooster i got off a friend, it is a huge bird at 11 pounds. this is a rooster that is a descendant of the chickens we have had since i was a kid.

So by selective breeding I should be able to produce my own variety of chickens like you do with plants? by only selecting the ones that have the good attributes that you want, I.e. hot and cold weather resistant, good layers, produce big eggs, large hens and at the same time small roosters...

I am a Gnostic, and no I didn’t mean Agnostic, I mean I follow the Gnostic perspective. Gnosticism is also known as the first religion. The word Gnostic came from the Latin word Gnosis which means wise in Latin. The ancient Greeks highly respected it by calling it the wise religion. if i didnt...

i have 3 roosters BIG BOY, he weighs 5 kilos. he is not for breeding anymore as he squashed 2 hens Derwent And Leonard after Tom and Barbra's rooster on the good life. he is a naked neck that thankfully doesn’t have the ugly naked neck jean. heres a pic of big boy junior last...

thanks. because its winter here and the days are still getting shorter I am only getting one egg a day from one of my girls, the shortest day of the year is a week away, after the days start getting longer the hens start laying more eggs, i will start saveing the eggs for the incubator when i...

I just bought a 48 egg incubator and two heat lamps (100w and 150w). I think it’s a good incubator, temperature control and alarm, humidity control and alarm and it can turn the eggs. I have never used an incubator before; I have always let the hens hatch them naturally. I have decided to start...

does BYC have a members system, you know somewhere you can tell everyone about your flock, share your stories and give updates on how things are going?