Hi everyone, yesterday we went and picked up new additions to the flock, day-old Indian Runner ducklings! We aren’t picky about colours, the woman we bought them from had many different colour ducks so we can’t know for sure what they’ll look like. The ducklings are covered in black down, with...
We are considering getting a trio (drake and two females) of sarcelle ducks from a breeder nearby. These won't be our first ducks; we've had plenty of muscovies, but currently want something a little smaller. We live in france, so sarcelles are common here and we could get them without having to...
My rooster, who is about a year old and started crowing this winter, has over the past few days developed a try croaky crow. Before it was quite high pitched and cartoonish (he's a frizzle bantam) but now it's gone croaky and it sounds like he has a cold.
On other threads people said to check...
Hi! My prefab coop which I brought a little while ago (we moved from Europe to France, so we've had to start all new with our chickens, we're 'keeping it small' for now (yea, how long will that last? We're picking up a pekin trio this weekend to add to our flock LOL) has the two nest boxes...
Hi I'm new to BYC and breeding but I'm going to give it a go... I have a question about Pekin genetics. If I were to breed my chocolate mottle frizzle rooster with a smooth chocolate mottle hen, what would the chicks look like and what would their chicks look like/carry the genes for? And would...
Hello! (I'm new to BYC, so... excuse my mislabelling and all that lol)
Anyway, we already have hens, and this weekend we're buying a trio of Pekins―two pullets and a coq.
The breeder doesn't have a camera/can't send photos and I just want to know what they'll look like so bad! I have a good...
Hello! Chicken math has struck and now I have a week to add on an isolation pen to our chicken coop. I can't build on inside as even though they are free range the coop is too small to take away space if I have to keep them inside for some reason. I'm going to use wood and some chicken wire we...
We live in France (having moved from America) and unless we want to drive for hours we have to buy local farm stock: French 'rousses'. Does anyone know anything about these chickens? We know they're layers and basic info like that but some more would be appreciated Thank you (We had chickens in...