I’ve only ever had Black Copper Marans, so I can’t speak on any genetic differences between the two, but if it is a Marans, it has the potential to lay dark brown eggs. The darkness of the egg depends on genetics, with some Marans having very dark brown all the way to more of an average/medium...
I’m trying to decide which Black Copper Marans rooster to keep based on looks/SOP. Rooster #2 is more dominant and therefore is larger and flashier right now so it’s throwing me off (plus I’m new at this). He is also the dumbest of the two, so I only want to keep him over rooster #1 if he’s...
I recently received 5 Buff goslings and I have done a lot of research on raising goslings, but I’m getting confused by conflicting information.
To start off with, I ordered four goslings, they got lost in the mail for 5 days, and miraculously 3 survived. I let the hatchery know what happened...
I have another cockerel his age and a 3 year old rooster. They’re all acting normal.
I have someone coming by tomorrow to pick up the extra cockerel and I was going to let them choose between the two…but I saw him do this again tonight so I thought I’d better check and see if something was...
I have a 10.5 week old cockerel that I hatched from an egg and every time I let the chickens out to free range, he will randomly spin in circles. I never see him do this in the coop or run and I don’t see anything off with his eyes. Is he just a weirdo or is there something wrong with him?