We have 4 sillkies. 2 whites, 1 black, and 1 blue/grey. I've never had silkies before so I'm try to learn to sex them. The black one has attitude ~ would not surprise me if that's a roo. Hoping the fluffy faces if the others mean females.
I really love the roo on the cover of the McMurray catalog this year. In fact I love it so much I was going to order 15 males of the breed. Supposedly the cover pic is a BB Modern Game Bird. However when I google images of the breed they look nothing like the cover picture...if I do order...
I have 1 Easter Egger chick that has strangely mellow behavior. It lets me touch it, doesn't run with the rest of the flock when I show up, doesn't mind being held, and appears generally sleepy alot. I have noticed its poop seems to stick to its butt a little - not like diarrhea more like the...
We recently bought 9 chicks of different ages. 1 black Orpington and 4 Bresse (all about 1 week) and then 4 chocolate orpingtons who are considerably older. I'm not sure exactly how old but they have lost more than 50% of their fluff and have feathered wings, back, and some have tails starting...
I went back to the breeder's house where we are buying our chicks from today to pick up 2 more Bresse chicks. Last my husband went with me thinking I was completely nuts being so excited about chickens. Then he saw the size of English Orpingtons! He was so impressed by them he told me we should...
Hi Everyone! I am not a first time chicken own, in fact in my teens I was quite involved on this very forum learning and chatting everything chicken! My old account was Banty-Hugger but I haven't used it in 6 years and couldn't recover the password so I made a new one. My life has changed a lot...