Hiya, I've been given some eggs to hatch after admiring the farmers beautiful hens, he says they Polish X black rock. All three hens are a stunning black with a green sheen to their coat and two out of the three have the pom-poms on their heads. Their eggs are a stunning green colour, and I was...
I've got a chick! The incubation was a nightmare, 2 massive temp spikes (incubator was faulty), 4/6 eggs killed,sudden rush to knock an incubator together quickly, I was reallu doubting how the two remaining eggs could possibly hatch. It's bren a long 18 hours pretty much glued to the...
I have three hybrid hens and when I decided that I wanted to add to them I thought that hatching and raising my chicks was the best way to go. I read and read on the topic and acquired six eggs from the farm, candled on day 10 and all were clear.
A couple of weeks later I found some local...
Hi all, I'm 'Polkadots' and am an accidental, first time owner to my three girls (Polkadot, a large black hybrid with a beautiful green sheen, maybe someone would have an idea of her breed? Spotty, a black and gold bantam X something and Dotty, my ex batt) up until the girls were given to me I...