Recent content by HappyChickenLover

Could very well be, when Welsummers start laying they can be lighter in color and of smaller size at first

I suppose I am lucky. My Welsummer bantams are real healthy. They take the cold real well. Oldest birds I've had are 5 year old girls, they are in extremely good shape. BTW garlic in the water bowls works great for worms! and its natural

My personal opinion is most ducks lay eggs, some do not go broody like the khaki cambell. Others like the Swedish ducks do, without having different types of ducks you wont know personality and what they are like. I find the blue and black swedes to be interesting, decent layers, and males to...

I was wondering if it was an Black Australorp or Jersey Giant, unfortunately I am not familiar with those two breeds. I know Sumatras, they are gamy looking birds with a long tail more of that to a phoenix.

Looks like a Dorking to me, however Dorkings have 5 toes and are more of a greenish leg color

I was just a thinking, and then I thought I outta post this. My bantams, I can't tell sex on them at all until they start getting feather colors. My wife and I been wrong so many time with those chicks

I really like her coloring from what I can see in the picture.

They kind of vary, but generally the bantams hang right around 30oz. Since I show them I know that it's hard for judges to understand, that they are the largest of the bantams. Even if you pick them up you realize they are allot more fluff then they look.

Yep, shouldnt be a problem unless you don't want the jumbo part to breed out

Game like birds can handle more then that, but the more there is many of times they will keep hitting same girls over and not get them all

I've raised coturnix quail for years, 4 girls and 1 boy do well in 2x3 foot wire cages. When I used wire cages I build a hardware cloth under the feed area with another plastic container I got from Chinese restaurant, and used it to catch extra feed from a wall mounted feeder. But now I run...

He is beautiful! You know those soft dog treats, kind of look like small worms, come in like 3 colors? Chickens love them, you can give those as treats and eventually probably get him to eat out of your hand, then tame gim

My oldest male is 5, he was a real s.o.b. He ended up with really swelled feet and has a hard time getting around now. so fortunately he doesn't jump me and my wife anymore, all the males after him have been really nice.

Thank you, you can kind of see the one rooster in background, hes 5 years old, and other is featherless. Cockerals are ugly still :D Welsummer roosters take a long time to fill in and look good, in fact one picture you can see two cockerals behind the girl