Hello all! Been awhile since I’ve posted & I hope this is the place to do!
i have a rare opportunity to acquire & breed a very rare breed of chicken here in Canada & I am looking for adivise, tips, yes or no, etc The breed? The Golden Phoenix. I found a place that has recently be able to...
Yes I imagined that they’d be separated for breeding purposes. I read they aren’t known for bloodiness so I was going to house them together for fertilized eggs, like I do with my RIRs, then let them run with the flock for a bit. My only concern is integrating a new Roo with my other Roos...
First I’d like to say apologies if I’ve posted in the wrong area, I couldn’t think of what this thread would fall under.
I have, as many know, a small, growing flock of beautiful diverse chickens & I have recently come across an endangered species & I would love to help with conservation but...
He has two behavioural traits. I can tell his bullying from the other behaviour I’ve questioned. He can be quite a … cock 🙈 but it’s distinctive. I am hoping I don’t find any injured birds in the morning, they have all been moved to their outside home this evening.
I believe he is 7 or 8 weeks old.
he is with three others including the one I brought him home with - the one who’s sex is in question lol. Hen or not Big Red has not tried mounting that one so I left them together & put in a couple other Roos so they aren’t lonely. The fighting & mounting...
Development with question:
My red & white Roo, I’m calling Big Red these days, seems to be maturing way to fast & it’s causing some arguments between my BF & I as he says ‘it can’t be happening.’ He is crowing & trying to mate with any hen around. I had to separate him & place a barrier between...
You could be doing more harm than good by interfering that much, you could even unintentionally break her broodiness. Mom will have a great temp reading on the eggs and will get off them if she feels they are to hot. Much like us moms when we hold our babies with a fever, momma hens will absorb...
Truly it’s a ‘let nature take its course’. She know exactly what she’s doing & what those babies need.
My list:
* keep her safe from other hens & Roos (depending on your setup)
~ ~ other hens can be wicked.
* maintain daily rations of food & clean water - she’ll eat & drink as she needs
~ ~...
Well I am officially frustrated by this 🙈 my first thought was to get a cream legbar but after a suggestion of the blue barred Easter egger I went with these two.
Guess I still have time to figure something out as my momma went broody again anyways and is sitting on some RIR eggs.
I just...
I believe it’s a three week difference between the black one and the red/white one. But honestly I cannot remember the ages. I remember when I picked them up there was a big size difference, although now you can’t really tell that lol
I’d like them to just be smaller versions of themselves lol my research has told me cochins are large chickens. So perhaps not so Cochin-ish would be the goal.