Thanks everyone! No feathered legs. I got them from Rural King and decided to check the other 2 Rural Kings in our area to see what they had. All 3 local stores had the same varieties, and the starlight green eggers at the other 2 stores were all yellow/light brown. The 3 chicks that I thought...
They had midnight marans, welsummer, ISA brown, polish crested, amberlink, Easter eggers, barred rocks, Rhode Island Red, Sapphire Gem, and banty mix. There were at least 20 in the bin with these and they all looked very much alike.
Bought 3 new chicks today to add to the dozen we bought 3 days ago. The breed name listed on the pen they were in at the farm store was "Starlight Green Egger". Since I am looking for colorful egg layers, I am excited about these 3! But when I got home and Googled the breed to see what the grown...
Hello there! New chicken mom here. One of the chicks we selected is a Black Star sex-link. It was with a batch labelled 'pullets', but I realize that the sexing of baby chicks is only about 90% accurate. I was reading online about the breed and read that with this particular breed, the males...
Hello all! Last weekend, after thinking/talking about it for a very long time, my husband and I finally decided to take the leap and buy some chicks from the local farm store. We started off with 3 'Americana Easter Egger' pullets (spelled just like that, not Americauna), 2 Amberlink pullets...