My birds lay 100 eggs each in february march and april. We were eating a bunch, then I started selling them. We incubate a lot of them too and sell the live birds. I a waste to let so many eggs die. We got 46 live birds out of an incubator 2 years ago and sold them all. I have 5 hens now that's...
I have not had any of my 6 hens sit on the nest their first spring but this year a first year blue made a perfect nest and sat on them but when the started hatching she kicked them out of the coop. So if the sit on eggs in the Spring watch them close we could only save 3 out of 11 that hatched...
It looks like you got 4 snowys. Is the silver male a spotted duck? I can't wait to see what they produce together. No one else got a snowy but you green heads and blues.
The girl in North Carolina bought my eggs specifically because I had snowy birds that no one else has she got 2 white birds and 5 green heads. She found them on line also.
If you have one that is more white than the one on the living River Farms video with large blue wing patches that is a snowy. I have two of them also they throw beautiful birds also. A blue drake mated to a snowy hen will almost always produce a blue head or a snowy.
I am hoping the one on the back right is a brown hen as adults they look identical to a Pintail hen. You can tell your birds are spots they have shorter necks and bills and they have the hen Pintail type tail feathers. Please keep sending pictures as they get bigger too I'm tracking all the...
The one on the right is a blue hen. I have a blue hen that is all brown and i had to do a lot of research to find the lighter colored one but it is on the living River Farms video.
Yes you got lucky. Look up living River Farms he has a video that shows a white blue head hen. No one else has them. All Blue spots start white and the blue drakes throw all the colors