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Thanks for the response I did order some aprons but they seem to have been lost in transit. The company did refund my money the other day but they don’t have any more available. I guess I’ll try ordering new ones from another source.

That sounds broody to me. It is normal to stop laying while she is broody. Don’t be surprised if her comb and wattles lose color and her belly will probably be picked clean of feathers and feel hot to the touch. It’s all part of the process. Good luck breaking her they can be really stubborn...

I let her sit once and she hatched 7 of 9 eggs and was a great mom. Temps were in below freezing at night but she kept the eggs and chicks warm and healthy. I have found that if I want to break her I need to collect eggs often and push her out of the nest several times a day. She growls and...

I have no experience with egg bound hens but I have a Jersey Giant that goes broody all the time. When a broody sits on eggs she sits differently. It’s hard to explain but once you see it you know it. They lay flat like a pancake. They look like they are melting or something lol. Here are a...

Some of my girls are looking pretty rough. I assume it is just rooster damage and sunburn do to missing feathers but I would like some insight from people with breeding experience. I just want to make sure it isn’t mites or something. I don’t see any bugs or eggs but admittedly my eyes aren’t as...

Sorry for your loss of Captain Jack. Honestly the way people go off topic in this thread is a big part of why I like this thread. I have tried a few Marans Facebook groups and most of them will totally roast someone for posting an olive egger. I love my Marans but I do keep a mixed flock and...

She is now 6 weeks old. Comb and wattles still look pullet to me but those legs are awful thick. I still don’t have any good guess as to breed other than possibly some colored egger like blue bell or whiting true green/blue. She just doesn’t look like anything specific to me

Maybe a mystic onyx? They are a silkie cross they commonly have black skin and feathered feet. Yours doesn’t appear to have a head tuft or extra toe often associated with mystic onyx but I don’t think those are required. Anyway that’s the best guess I have.

Man I gotta learn your secrets of the 10 I hatched out this year I have 7 cockerels and 3 probable pullets. No broodys here. Gena finally gave up after about 2 weeks of collecting eggs several times a day and pushing her off the nest. Lacy decided she has thought her babies everything they...

I haven’t had any experience with this yet but the video sure makes it look like an easy fix.

Gena hatched out 7 chicks and mothered them for 3 weeks then I added 2 more 3 week old chicks to her group. She seemed to accept them well enough. The 2 new ones always sort of stayed somewhat separate from the group but momma was happy to keep them warm or protect them any time they needed her...

I was surprised to see them crowing this soon. I was fairly sure they were cockerels a couple weeks ago based on comb development. Then about a week ago I noticed the saddles and shoulder patches growing in so I knew the crowing was coming. I just don’t remember my other boys crowing until they...

I just can’t do anything with my hair from all this humidity.

The chicks are starting a band. I saw 3 unnamed cockerels from Gena’s hatch worming up their singing voices this morning. I managed to get one on video. The pullet named chicken and noodles is learning to play the xylophone

I found some time today to get on the river. The fishing was great but the catching was just fair. I cleaned one sturgeon and one silver carp that jumped right in the boat.

That looks like a cockerel. The white feathers on his wings is really common at six weeks old. He should molt out of those white feathers and the grow black ones in their place.

The first round of chicks are now 8 weeks old and the second round chick and his 3 friends I bought are now 4 weeks old. Everybody is doing well. I believe I ended up with 3 pullets and 7 cockerels.

But no matter what, Joannie stays, she's not a cull even if I stop using her to breed. Cull simply means you are not going to use her as a breeder. Moving her to the eating egg flock, keeping her as a pet, or a good reliable broody are all perfectly acceptable ways to cull a bird. It doesn’t...

Are you starting a 3rd clutch of eggs or taking over for one of the broodys?