Recent content by imzadi

Ok...quick question. Looking to replace my flock (the fox got the last one!) We need a breed that will stay put...we want free range but not free to the neighbors range :), great egg layer, cold hardy. Thinking Austrolop (?spellings, sorry). I have heard this is a great breed and fulfills...

Hi All! Been a long time (LLLOOOONNNGG WINTER!) Time for me to start thinking about new birds for my flock and adding more color to my egg basket...currently have whites, olive, multi types of tans and one lone mix bantum that lays the most beautiful little blue eggs Looking for some good...

the one in the back is an Olive egger...her hatch mate (who is laying) lays very nice olive colored eggs...I THINK she (the one in the pix) is laying now too...as we had two olive eggs one day...and they were close, but not the same. BUT...who knows :) Either way, blue egg = happy Chicken momma!

here are a few more pix of her

here is a picture of the two eggs I collected on the same day. Slight difference in size and shading of blue. I KNOW that I have two hamburgs (whether or not they are "pure" or not...they are from a hatcher so who knows). Here is a pix, however, of what we (meaning myself and this forum)...

The two eggs look VERY similar so...maybe they ARE both from her... The hamburgs and Andolusian are Meyer Hatcher birds so...who knows :) I'll try and post pix. Not that I MIND if they are both from her. Just curious and...hoping

Ths is a wonderful answer! I have a pair of "chicken shoes" that I DO bring into the mud room...and have worn in the car when goin no place that I care about (or, not getting out of the car at all...) I think this practice will stop.

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...could be but...the one chicken I have that I KNOW lays blue-tinted eggs has been laying since spring. She was, however, broody for a short time about 3 weeks ago but...has laid at least four other times since this brood (didn't take much to break her)... Wondering if a Hamburg has any tint...

HI there I know I've had "where'd that egg come from" issues before. but... I KNOW I have one blue egg layer...a silkie...something cross that is an easter egger type girl. Pretty blue/green tinted eggs. Got it. Ok...so, yesterday I had 9 eggs (YEA!!!! finally some new layers) and...

It's fair time!!! And, now that I"m a chicken mamma...I'm looking forward to going to the fair for a WHOLE different reason But, I know there are a LOT of issues with "visiting" other flocks and how you can bring diseases back to your girls. Is this also a consideration at fairs? I'm...

Thanks...but, if they are INFERTILE...there won't ever be a chick...will my brahma just sit there and sit there and sit there for months and months since they just aren't hatching? I mean, heck, she sat on ping pong balls for the longest time

awesome...I am really thinking of getting one (or two?). Just wanted some good reviews first. How much did YOU pay in shipping?

HI all...have a light brahma bantum who went broody and wouldn't STOP (nothing worked) so...we gave her some eggs to sit on, put her in our tractor and...well, there she sits. Been about 2 weeks. Kinda excited if the eggs DO hatch; they will be part olive egger part...um...something (all our...

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