Recent content by southerngirl29

I'm wanting to know when it's safe to sell my juveniles? We had cocci spread through the chicks from new juveniles I had bought about a month and a half ago. They've all been treated and have fully recovered. I breed and sell chickens, and I'm wondering if it's safe to sell these now? None are...

5 of the chicks I hatched from my blue English Orpingtons were black. 3 of them are solid black, 2 of them are black with white flecks all over. It's driving me crazy not being able to figure this out. Is this common? Is mottling like a genetic mutation thing (like frizzles) or is it a...

nobody knows?

I have blue orpington chickens. (I breed blue to blue so I get blue/black/splash) I hatcched my first set of chicks from them on Easter day. They are a month old now, I hatched 6 black 4 blue and 1 splash. When the feathers started coming in on two of the blacks they had white tips on the ends...

I have two cuckoo maran roosters, (thought I had a hen and roo, but nope, both roos). I raised them from chicks, one has just recently started mating the hens and crowing. He is extremely aggressive and dominating. He is the prettiest of the two roosters though. The other rooster hasn't fully...

I have a pair of mille de fleur d'uccles and I'd like to sell hatching eggs/chicks from them when they're old enough (only around 4 months now) My mille hen is so tiny compared to my full size rooster (splash maran) I only have one coop so they are all together. I want to keep my full size...

that's the best pic I can get! I don't want to open the incubator. It didn't hatch out of the blue egg btw. It just wandered over there. haha It hatched just a couple of hours ago.

All the pics I see are light grey. Is this not a lavender??

Soooo, how would one go about attempting to produce a hen that would lay "emu turquoise" colored eggs. I just looked up the emu eggs and they are gorgeous. Can a chicken really lay an egg like that?? I'm sure it would be hard to get one, but I'm willing to try!! I have an olive egger hen and roo...

Well, no one has replied haha, I'm going to update in case anyone ever reads this. This morning I've got two good lookin' chicks in the incubator. Some real early birds!! I think I'll have another one soon. They seem to be doing well. :)

I still can't believe I forgot to go back in there and check the humidity and temp. I'm so mad at myself!! I just got busy and never thought of it again. :(

This is my first time ever trying to hatch eggs. I have a foam incubator, I've read "dry incubating" is best so that's what I've done. Today was day 18, I removed the turners, and laid the eggs flat on the incubator. I added water and increased the heat just a little because it was a little...

I have a question about olive eggers. I know you breed a blue egg layer and a dark layer breed. And that the 2nd generation would be the really dark eggs. But what I don't know is, if you have an f2 OE Hen and an F2 OE roo and breed them, will you continue to get olive layers?

After reading so much contradicting opinions and facts on wether or not to use a light in the coop, I decided that since my hens had already been completely through the molting process and Since i hated to think of how cold they were, I put a light in the coop and left in on from about December...