Looking to crossing for meaties.. o have a white rock hen and buff orpington roo. Was looking for a cornish roo but havent had any luck. What would the result be for buff/white rock cross be? Good for meat?
I have several different breeds of girls. Recently I have been getting a 4th egg a day.. only it has changes color and size? Looks different everyday all week..top left to right are my normal eggs from my older girls, which I got these today. Include SLW, black star, and turken. Bottom row is...
We are needing to build a new coop... we have too many for what we have now. Have materials bought and ready to go, have a few ideas, but a lazy husband.lol. needing some decent coop designs for 20+ chickens. Want it raised off the ground and easy to clean. A friend of mine has a 6x4 coop that...
I have raised chicks many times. But for the first time I have a chick with an oozing vent! What do I do?! Can I dip it in poroxide? Or something? Or just warm water?
Okay this is the only one like this in my entire mcmurray brown egg layers the rest are all darker like cornish and Ss. So what is she?. She is so much lighter than the others!!
I have several mystery chicks, some from the feed store and some from mcmurray in my brown egg layer assortment. To bigger chicks are 3-4 weeks old and from the local feed store. The smaller are 2.5 weeks old from mcmurray. Are they the same? Are they cornish, welsummers, or barnevelders? Or...
So.. my husband and I have decided to be less dependent on grocery stores and raise chickens for both eggs and meat. I found great deals on some hens and roosters pf wich we already butcherd all but one rooster. I ordered some egg layers from mcmurray since the hens we have will be nearly 2...
I ended up with several of these as well as some I ordered from mcmurray but this is the only breed I got from our tractor supply bin said brown layers.
These are all supposed to be female brown egg layers and a few I know but a few I can't figure out! Please help! [/IMG][/IMG][/IMG] one of them is older from our farm store and kinda looks like the smaller one but not sure and two of the little ones are feather footed. Any help would be fantastic!!