Hi,
I’ve been keeping chickens for about 5 years and hatching our own for fun for a few years.
This year I’ve hatched lots of shipped eggs from reputable breeders with hopes to start our own little breeding flock to sell chicks and hatching eggs. I’ve been researching breeding; however, I’m...
Hi,
We just hatched 4 little chicks. We place a RIR rooster with a buff orpington, chocolate orpington and brown chicken we got from a hatchery which I think are rhode island red or ISA brown wasn’t specified when we got them. We got four totally different chicks. Anyone have an idea of what...
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows if there is preference with breeding orpingtons and rhode island reds. We have a rhode island red and buff orpington rooster and both breeds of hens. We could do both possibilities. Which do you think is best? Will there actually be a different...
Hi Im a new member
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
we got our first 4 laying hens in May 2016
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
8 laying hens, 3 buff orpington chicks and 15 meat birds
(3) What breeds do you have? 3 buff orpington, 6 rhode island...
Hi everyone, Ive been looking through info on the website but this is my first time posting.
We've had laying hens for over a year but this year we decided to raise 15 meat birds. I kind of wish we had chosen a different breed than cornish cross... I guess this is how we learn.
Onto the...