So first off, I need to get more updated pictures. These birds are 5 weeks old now. This is my little bantam rooster I got from Atwood’s. What breed do you think he is? I will post a more updated pic of him later.
Hello! I have 12 eggs in my incubator. It’s day 20 today. 2 pipped yesterday on day 19 and one hatched yesterday night. The other one that pipped started zipping in the wee hrs of the morning (day 20) I did not see this happening as I was asleep. Woke up to find it 1/4 zipped.
It’s now 1 pm and...
I’m in north Texas. I have never shipped eggs before. Just getting started with all this but I would be open to doing that at some point after I get more established with my lines.
As soon as I get my breeding coop set up and I can get them separated out to make sure they are not intermingling with my other roosters, I fully plan to test hatch a batch
They are a mix from different genetic lines. Not a mix of breeds. They are 100% crested cream leg bars, all of them.
I did not personally have the roosters tested. When I purchased them, I was told they had no chance of passing “green” egg genes along. That it was only blue. So was assuming...
Hi there! I’m just getting into breeding and selling crested cream legbar hatching eggs. My hens are a mix from other local breeders, (who don’t sell hatching eggs, so nothing to go off of there) and from Murray mcmurray hatchery. My roosters however, come from green fires exhibition line and...
Ok yall help me out here. I’m so curious. We just got McMurrays assorted layer package and I’m having trouble figuring out what some of these are. I’ve got 5 I’m unsure on. (Excuse the messy brooder, they’ve been in it for all of two hrs and have already made a mess of the place 🫣)
I don’t know if she’s a silkie or not. I didn’t order bantams but I did get a surprise chick so I think that’s what this one is the surprise. She doesn’t have pasty butt and I have the heat lamp on her. I think she must be a bantam of some kind. She is so much smaller than the others and kept...