Buffs #1 and #2 look very male to me.
Buff #3 is female.
I am jealous! Sandhill sent me only *1* buff when I asked for up to 10, and that single is tiny tiny tiny and female.
So I am still without a buff male.
No need to heat if you are in Homer AK perhaps, but Alaska is a big state. Here in the Interior, particularly where I live, if I didn't provide an not only an insulated barn AND heat, I would have dead or frozen chickens. So, it just depends where you live and the microclimate of your specific...
I currently have 4 cuckoo marans chicks in my brooder. They are 2 weeks old and are straight run. If any turn out to be females I will keep those and let you know from time to time how they do.
Mine head in on their own. However, their first summer they did not and I had to spend way too much time herding them inside. Then by the second summer they settled down. I rarely have to do chicken wrangling any longer.
I have 9 buff chanteclers. It seems that at any given time one of them is broody. They must take turns at it. So yes, it isn't unusual for them to go broody.
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As long as you accept that it will no longer have the strength of the original door it could work, as a screen door. Leave a cross brace for strength. Also, cover the door with hardware cloth, that will provide more strength reinforcement *and* protection. Instead of staples, use those flat...
I provide some heat in my little barn. One heatlamp for the chickens and one heatlamp for goats. Still, most of winter even with switching out the water every 12 hours (starting with very warm nearly hot water) the water is partially or totally frozen.
But I'm not only in Interior Alaska, but...
Thank you,
Does this mean that I should (if possible) use a buff male who has no smut in the tail?
I have no buff male but if I were to find one ....
Most of the hens have only a little smut or none at all.
They are however, quite fluffy, but we just officially reached the end of winter so that...