I have been growing out some glw chicks with plans to breed. I have 4 roosters that are about 4 months old, and have been trying to work out which to keep for breeding. I have come to the conclusion they are all poor quality. 2 have nice gold lacing on the breast, but i read that you should...
I wasnt sure where the best place to ask this was, I'm not after the breed or sex, I'm asking about colour. I have Araucanas. I have a dominant white and a recessive white hen, 2 blues, a splash and a black hen in with a black roo. I was expecting blue and black chick's, with a few dominant...
A chick hatched out last night while I was asleep, and when I took him out of the incubator I realised that while lumbering around he had stuck his beak up through the fan grill and the fan has cracked one side of his beak. It looks very painful poor thing. Will it mend like normal broken bone...
I have a batch of araucana chick's Hatching out. For the most part they are blue, black and splash to solid black roo, so the outcomes are quite simple. But I also have one recessive white hen. The first of her eggs just hatched out and revealed a smoky not quite black chicken. Looks like a...
Hi guys,I have just had a couple of batches of my own fertile eggs hatch out, and I think I have some problems. I set 36 eggs, only 20 made it to lockdown, and then thanks to a bad temp spike during lockdown only 6 hatched. I then had to cull 3 due to neurological symptoms, including ataxia...
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My sussex broody is sitting on araucana eggs, and has been very clumsy. Quite a few eggs have broken over the course of the setting, but she made it to day 20 (today) with 6 eggs ready to go. When i checked this morning tho, another egg has been broken. I don't just mean cracked, i...