Hi! So recently, my hens I hatched April last year have began to lay, and I've heard about the trick of telling what color eggs a hen lays by the color of her earlobe. This particular hen has white earlobes, but it doesn't make sense, because she can't lay white eggs, can she? Her father was...
I have a speckled sussex, too, and my russian orloff has less white, redder feathers, yellow legs and a shorter comb. They aren't that similar. Also, I have pictures somewhere... I look into trying to get one.
I have a problem. I'm trying to get eggs from certain hens to hatch for a project, and this hen in particular won't lay. The only other chicken that I have that doesn't lay is an almost-8 hen who's never laid. The hen that I'm trying to get to lay is called Clementine, and she's a Russian Orloff...
We have a month-old White Chinese Goose that is the first goose we ever got, and she lives with 12 chicks that are the same age as her. The goose is already as big of bigger than your average hen and has grown strong, healthy relationships with the chicks. She even is defending her playmates...
I’m surprised about how many eye colors are in my eight-chicken flock and my chicks. Three chickens, including two EEs, and a Barnevelder, four chickens, including my rooster, have that common orange eye color, and the rooster’s sister has chocolate - dark copper eyes, and, one of my crosses at...
Is breeding a domesticated chicken and a Chilean Tinamou possible? Also, if the mix is possible, will the offspring still produce purple eggs if the chicken has a certain color egg? Also, can Tinamous live in a flock of free-ranged chickens with no fence, and are they more vulnerable to...
I’m making this new post so that people can come to it and post sweet breeds, and who knows, it might inspire other owners to get a new breed of chicken! But please do not post “No, that breed is not sweet” or something like that to someone else’s post. Thank you!
Here are breeds I think are...