I have only given grit to Chickens who have no access to the ground and chicks in brooders and even then It is not a steady diet of it. Usually once or twice a week seems to work well. So if you chickens are on the ground I would not worry about it. They are good to go.
So the other two hens in the coop lay a pale blue egg and a darker brown egg. So per genetics a blue egg will never be green and a brown egg will never be green either. So then the only other source for the egg is the chick and no other birds can get into the run and coop.
the larger egg is a 1.2 oz. egg from one of my 22 week old project girls that started laying yesterday as well. She is in a breeding pen with another rooster and hen. So the little egg didn't come from them.
I am sure I am the only one who goes out to the chickens and cares for them. my husband can't he is very ill. and my son was at work. I posted some pictures take a look at them tell me what you think.
NO actually the shell looks to be almost green after the membrane was peeled off. I am assuming it was that color because of how thick the shell was it was almost like two shells stuck together. I have some pic's on my phone I will need to do that from my phone though as I am currently on my...
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I have not posted for quite sometime but I am hoping someone on here can help me out. I have a young chick who was hatched out on the 1st of July that makes her 9 weeks and four days old today. I went out earlier today to collect eggs, check waters give them some feed. etc. I pulled...
Hi I also live in Henderson. Do you belong to Silver State Poultry Keepers page on Facebook? If not check it out, we have a monthly get together of the members of the page. We try to do it in different locations on all four corners of the valley, so its is convenient for everyone to come at...
Hi I haven't posted for a while but I have questions. First how do you counter act the cream gene when trying to use crested cream legbar roos for the auto sexing factor from cancelling out skin pigment? Has anyone tried using another blue egg layer with the Crested Cream Legbar to create a auto...
Hi, I am trying to learn chicken genetics. I have a question if anyone could help me that would be great. I have a crested cream legbar Roo crossed to a Partridge EE hen. The result is my Legbar EE cross Roo. Whom I am planning to breed back to an brown partridge EE hen. Who is a cross between...
Kept this girl because I loved her color and pattern. It I thought was going to be her permanent color and her daughter looked just like her so I was so excited about that. Now I am breeding her daughter and don't know if next year when she molts if she will do the same thing as her mother.
So the topp and bottom pics are the hen that is molting now. Seems I dont have a recent pic of here before she started molting so the two middle ones are her daughter and they were Identical before the molt started.
What are you asking exactly? Do they have a chance to hatch? If your Roo is doing his job sure. You can check for Fertilization by cracking open and egg and looking for the germ disc on the surface of the yolk. It is a white spot. If the egg has been fertilized that white spot will look like a...
I have a project flock that I have been breeding. I am three generations deep in this flock. one of my second generations hens is about 13 months old now and this is her first hard molt. She is a BLRWxEE. She is a beautiful blue hen with red lacing. My question is this: Can and Adult chicken...