I have for sale a pair of lovely Dutch Hookbills from Holderread if anyone is interested. They are a very rare breed of duck from Holland that lay a green egg.
It is my "almost white" pullet from Skyline that lays the wonderful plum coloured egg. So far they have been turned into crepes or omelettes before I have managed to get a picture. I was puzzled to see the colour seems to fade as the egg ages and is at its best colour in the first few hours...
It has what looks like a white powdery glaze and is a lovely purpley brown...... It is just impossible to get a good photo that really shows the colour. I don't have any white egg layers or I could photograph her egg up against the white ones so you could really see the" purpleyness". Pretty....
I am curious to have the low down on the pattern of behaviours you can expect from roosters as they grow. I have more than a dozen roosters at the moment of varying ages and the only mature roo is a bantam silkie who although a gentleman is overwhelmed. It seems to me cockrels are rather like...
Congrats Green Earth! I have 8 I hatched from Yashar a few months ago and I absolutely love them. Be warned though, you will soon be itching to try his Huastec and then Sweet Potatoes and then ....................Love them all!!
No No!! That is Turnip!! He is my Black Showgirl. He was the strangest looking thing I had ever seen when hatched. Looked like he had been sucked up the vacuum backwards and still does!
Oh dear, didn't mean to stir up such a storm! I haven't seen Mareks before and was puzzled as to how she could have it.
To fill you in a bit, she was vaccinated as a chick as a day old and arrived to be brooded inside the house. I have just moved to a new house and neither the old or new...