Recent content by Oakrosemama

thanks for the replies. he was all black as a chick, but my memory is a but rusty there. i just remember he was a very beautiful rooster!

Our girls are still too young for eggs, but we're already saving our egg cartons. Our family and friends live quite far away so we were thinking of selling our surplus. How do you sell yours? I have thought about a sign on our yard that says "yard eggs for sale", but does that really work? are...

the leghorn pics i googled look too orange to me, it was more light gold. he looked exactly like the rooster in this article (a cute article btw). but what kind is this? http://www.annarbor.com/news/rooster-looked-after-by-ann-arbor-residents-since-september-might-have-farm-to-call-home/

when i said i got chickens the only thing people ever asked was: "don't you need a rooster for them to lay eggs?" i just thought about commercial egg laying operations and imagined roosters in cages dangling above for hens to see...yep there's a rooster, let's lay! That and for some reason...

I wish I had pictures! I had a rooster growing up as a kid. We won a baby chick at a fair and that's what it turned out to be. I just wondered if anyone could tell me what breed it was? The base color was black and on top of that it had golden feathers on its neck like stripes, but so many you...

the same thing happened to me. the first couple of nights we had to catch them and put them in the coop. they finally got it! one problem..it rained really hard one day and the noise on the roof (metal) i believe scared them out into the rain and they wouldn't go back up. i had to wait for it to...

I let the girls out of their run for some free range time every day, and they love to huddle by this tree and it drive me nuts to chase them around to get them back in their house. I can't wait till dark for them to go themselves since we have to let the dogs out at some point. So I've been...

Penelope: buff orpington Petunia: silver laced wyandotte Clementine: red Rosie: plymouth rock barred

Hi everyone. Not sue how much I'll be around since I'm a member of several online forums (time consuming!) but I love reading more about raising chickens. I just started my first flock this spring. I got 4 pullets: A buff orpington, a red, a plymouth rock barred and a silver laced wyandotte...

She is middle of the road for personality compared to the others, lol. The plymouth rock barred Rosie rules the roost and is favorite of the family (seems smartest). The red is named Clementine, she wavers between 2nd and 3rd in line with Penelope (the buff, she is the sweetest and most curious...

Bummer. I want my 25 cents back! :)

When I bought my pullets at one week old I got a plymouth rock barred, a silver laced wyandotte and 2 buff orpingtons. They looked the same as chicks until they got feathers. One looks yellow like a buff, but the other one is red..did they sell me a rhode island red and say it was an orpington...