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In 10 years of breeding chickens, I’ve never ran into this before. She’s thin? Leaned forward with her butt in the air, and her left wing is drooped. Any suggestions? She’s been treated with ivermectin. She laid an egg a week ago, I also don’t feel one stuck either. Usually I’d cull ill birds...

I would cull him, once it’s in their genetic line up it’s much more prevalent in their offspring. I culled all of them out of my own flock

Thanks for your insight! That’s exactly what I was thinking of doing, but you’re right in the fact that the comb shape will be the most difficult part.

I’ve been wanting some rosecomb RIR bantams for quite some time, but such birds do not exist in in my part of Canada. I’ve got a spectacular line of sc RIR, and I’m thinking of what breed would y‘all cross them to, to get the rose comb? I show my line of bantam blacks and silver laced...

Ameraucanas are spectacular cold hardy birds. Highly recommend them, of course I'll add that you cant beat chanteclers for cold weather birds, even though they aren't blue egg layers.

I’ve got it narrowed down between these two to choose for my breeding this year, which one would you pick? I’m leaning with cockerel #2. Any advice is appreciated!

That's what I'm talking about. Never had them before in any of the offspring, and this year there is a few pullets with it. Problem is they have great type, show quality other than the extra spike. I guess I'll breed them an find out how many more will show up.

I'll get some when I move them to the lower barn later in the week!!

We have very humid, and to us, hot summers. we get up to 35 degrees Celsius. Provide shade and cool water and they'll be fine

I just mentioned this in another thread, if you're looking for a cold hardy bird, the chantecler is the bird to go with.

If you're looking for the cold hardy breed, take a hard look at the chanteclers. I breed them, these birds are by far the best at handling the cold.

I cannot find anything on this, some of my growouts from my rose combs have a double spike on their combs. What causes this genetically? What would happen if I bred the double spiked pullets to a very nice cockerel?

I just got a black cockerel and white rosecomb pullets, I'm just wondering what would be the outcome of crossing them? I know nothing of crossing colors, I only breed to the same color in my other breeds.

Surprisingly, white chantecler have been. My bantam black wyandottes are nuts and my speckled sussex have been pretty cranky.