The barred rock cross is called a California Gray. Looks like a barred rock but with gray stripes instead of black. Females have darker gray stripes than males.
Last time my BA hen hatched eggs, she pulled big pieces of shell off the pipped eggs. One of the chicks didn't hatch/survive. Her current clutch is due to hatch Friday. Should I be concerned, or is it OK for her to "help" the chicks hatch?
I have a 9 month old white leghorn cockerel who needs a new home. I think he will be a great rooster, he tidbits and dances and alerts for danger. I just can't keep him. ☹ we are in Connecticut. Thanks.
Hi Heather, thanks for helping. She has been having shell quality issues, but her shells are not thin. Also, today's egg was perfect, but very small. How did you give the calcium and D?
My salmon faverolles is now laying body checked eggs - the kind with a ridge all the way around. For the last 3 weeks they have all been this way. Before that, they looked normal. She lays every other day.
She is my only SF in a mixed flock of 9 hens and 1 rooster. She is at the bottom of...
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She is so docile that she is a target; after I got my mixed flock I learned that salmon faverolles don't do well alone in a mixed flock. She has always been a target, but since the bullying got worse she has victim mentality, she cowers when one goes after her, and...