Hey all, i am some what new too breeding chickens and i want to start selling eggs and chicks but i don’t know where to start i am located in mid north coast australia and i am breeding Blue/Gold, Black/Silver and splash barnevelders where would be a good place to start selling eggs i am...
Hello everyone i need help selecting a rooster(s) for my flock i currently have 1 splash rooster and silver/black hens and i am looking too add splash hens and a silver/black rooster so i can have a wider variety of chicks i have kept 6 hens and 2 roosters from my previous hatches (which i...
Hello so i’m not sure if they have single combs i can’t tell yet. none have muffs or beard and i’m certain all eggs came from my silver laced girls. i’m not sure how many i have hatched . the chick you see is one of my pullets who was dark with tan stripes and she was turned out blue and red...
sorry for the quality of chick photo but that’s how this exact hen with the exact same parents looked when she hatched(i did not incubate her eggs as her and her sisters only started laying last week). and then you can see my hens and roosters (obviously i have more hens they all look like this...
Let me just break that down. I have a splash rooster and Silver laced barnevelder hens is it normal to get different colours. just confused because u have never hatched a splash chick in my 9 months of doing this and then suddenly hatch 4/5 splash
hello i have been breeding barnevelders since january and i’m not sure why this has occurred and i don’t even know how to explain i will upload pictures tomorrow. i have got a splash rooster and double silver laced hens and every time i hatch i get blue laced red barnevelders, for whatever...
he passed away in his sleep last night. i don’t think it had anything to do with feed and i think he may have either been bit by something or had a brain injury because he perked up lastnight a little bit but he was just spinning in circles thank you for you help 🙏
there is food available all day long just not scratch mix is what i meant it is in tubs though and i will look into getting an all flock feed as i have got a lot of gunnies aswell i have 37 birds in total but feeders are never empty because everyone is free range my only male birds that touch...
I watch them eat every day he does not get Chase while he’s eating they eat layer pellets scratch mix and common produce scraps like tomatoes watermelon cucumber rice nothing rotten
sorry the photos aren’t that good i’m here by myself and i tried to put him on a perch but he just fell off (there is a crushed egg under him that’s not his poo) but could it be worms i’ve not wormed them since march and none of my flock is vaccinated or anything
going to go take photos right now and yes i can feel his breast bone he is quite skinny and i scatter my feed on the ground for them to eat and he is always is eating.
Hello one of my roosters is very sick he is lethargic won’t stand eat or open his eyes really he was perfectly fine 2 hours ago he is a frizzled auracana exactly 25 weeks he is sort of a social outcast and never mounts or goes near the girls we have 4 other roosters and one of them bullies him...
6 weeks hen or roo. this is turtle a six week old Barnevelder chick i am not sure why he has got no lacing he came from a silver laced barnevelder hen and splash barnevelder roo. turtle has siblings 1 week younger i will show images of them if you want but i just need too know their gender...
may i add the both had decent tail feathers at 1 week so i’m not sure if that applies too this breed but we have 1 barnevelder in the brooder who is three weeks and only just started developing tail feathers.
Edit: but you can see in the images that they have got pretty big legs