I am so pleasantly surprised with how beautiful our mixed chicks ended up being! Maybe someone who knows genetics more could help me figure out which ones came from which hen. I had two roosters- sapphire splash and welsummer. I am pretty sure they are all from the splash rooster because the...
They ended up being the most beautiful mutt chickens! I think they were all sapphire splash rooster mixes though. But they all ended up being so pretty! I think the grey/blue ones are the cream legbar mixes.
I just hatched a mixture of chicks and I'm curious if they are crossed with my welsummer rooster or sapphire splash rooster! I believe I have a mix of both. The feather footed ones are from my light brahma hen and the others could be from cream legbars or welsummer pullets. I would love to...
I just witnessed my older hen (4/5 years old) mount another hen, just like a rooster! We haven't had a rooster for awhile now but why is she doing this?!
Recently I had 2 chickens get sour crop. Unfortunately, one passed away today. The other hen had recovered a few days ago.
I will give a little background so maybe someone could tell me what most likely caused it. Especially since it happened to two of my girls in the course of a week.
I live...
The darker chick with the yellow dot on it's head is throwing me off..and one of the striped chicks looks like a cream legbar to me (on far left)..although I know welsummer chicks look very similar to them!
I hatched 5 chicks- cream legbar cock over 1 marans (black copper or blue- I am unsure), 2 welsummers and 2 legbars. I believe I have 2 ccl roosters and the darker striped chicks are the welsummers and the lighter would be the marans? These wouldn't be sex linked right?
Legbars are autosexing, so yes. At least he's looking purebred so far..I'll post another pic when he's more fluffed up. I won't cull, I may even try to continue to breed my own 'pink' legbars. I'd love to have autosexing both blue & pink egged birds!
Very cool! I appreciate all of the information. My little pink egg pipped today..so I will update with pictures and see if a true legbar hatches! I have 5 other "normal" blue legbar eggs set to hatch as well.
Haha yes it can be a process. I finaly just started to get "regulars" to buy my eggs. Otherwise I usually had an over abundance! The purple eggs have been the coolest thing!! I dont have a good picture of the coated ones, but they are more common than my speckled ones