Eggs are tough to ship overseas, due to them not liking elevation changes in flying. It might take too long to move eggs via boat, thats why usually adult birds are what is moved, plus dealing with customs for live animals can be a pain.
You know, I once had an Englishman contact me about...
I tend to not handle the boys a lot. After puberty, if I want the boys to be friends, that's a better time to work on them. They are through the confusion of wacky hormones, and finally clear headed, so befriending them after puberty works better for me. I also eat any boy who shows aggressive...
halfway across Great Britain is not particularly far. You could fit nearly two Great Britains in just the state I live in, Montana. How many hours would the travel take? :lau
Finally found these stashed with the turkey nests. Next, I'll have to get them back to their own nests. If there's an egg eater, I'll have to send out dinner invitations, if I find the culprit.
Egg color is a guessing game. While I try hatching from the darkest color, it has been said before that even selecting for dark eggs doesn't guarantee dark eggs. That said, I feel like I have been pretty lucky in keeping pretty dark eggs. I should get a color card, but I have been a bum and not...
I like the hardiness of the Marans. They don't seem to loose their combs in the harsh winter cold as badly as some breeds do. They make good all around chickens, the cockerels make good chicken dinners, although they aren't the best for it, they certainly aren't the worst. I have not had many...
It has warmed up finally, and the sun has come at last, but since it was so dreary for almost 2 weeks, everyone stopped laying! Let's hope the sunshine and nice spring weather gets everyone laying again.
There is some parasitic white, it is more prominent in the original group. The recessive white showed up a few years ago ( I think my husband brought in the blue silver group for me in 2016, the whites came from them, because I realized that the rooster that carried it was blue. The first white...
It is hard to tell. She started out a black silver when she was about a month old, she started getting white feathers. She has since gained more and more white feathers, pure white, not yellowed at all. There is recessive white in the flock, but those usually are hatched white to start. I had...