Recent content by SolarChickens

A friend gave me this rooster, but even he wasn't sure what kind it is, since it was given to him. The original owner said that it was a barred rock mixed with something else. He has a few metallic green feathers that are starting to grow out in his tail plume. Anyone have any clue what he is...

Hmmm, interesting. She didn't lay one yesterday, and now today's egg is smooth and looks good, its also 2.85 oz!

This is really neat, i've been wanting to do something similar, I'd like to have something that squeezes a water mist bottle to give a bump in humidity when needed rather than rely on evaporation alone.

Yep, others from the flock hatched fine, incubating at 37.8 C and 55% humidity and then I bump the humidity up near the end. About 1 in a dozen will be a reasonably smooth shiny looking egg from her, the other 11 are various degrees of chalk, almost as if the egg was made of fine sand. I was...

Hey Everyone, A friend recently gave me some chickens, and I would like to incubate the eggs and expand my flock. My best producer lays eggs that average 2.75 oz almost every day, and she came from Moyers Chicks. They describe them as a hybrid cross between a White Rock egg-layer type female...