So im not in exactly the best of moods while writing this as it all happened within the last hour. but this evening I arrived home to find my Brahma x Black Australorp rooster sitting on my car in my front yard. This was already very strange as he has never jumped by 5ft fence that I can...
So for some context, I'm right at 1 year of keeping my own chickens, and i'm sitting at 6 Black Australorp hens, 1 Egyptian Fayoumi hen, and 3 Dark Brahma roosters. yes that's too many roosters, but since one of them is very social, I plan on culling the other two this weekend. one of my BA's...
For starters, forgive my ignorance as I have zero experience in breeding and hatching my own chicks. But I have a mixed flock which I've always intended to create crosses from, mostly for fun/curiosity, and the roosters are quite large, Brahmas and Jersey Giants, and the hens are black...
Hello there, I'm rasing my first flock of chickens and i've got two pekins mixed in that I got from tractor supply. They are right at 14 weeks, and I'm still clueless if they are male or female. I've tried listening to their quacks, but they only give out short ones so it's hard to tell, leading...
This is the first flock I've ever had, so I wanted some interesting breeds to mix it up, leading me to the Brahma. I ended up ordering all roosters with the intent to cross them with the Black Australorp and Egyptian Fayoumi hens I received. All of them were ordered from McMurray Hatchery and I...
I ordered 15 BA from McMurry and they are now 7-8 weeks old. (haven't lost a single one!) Now while most of them have the normal blue/pinkish legs with dark scaling, I've noticed that 2 of them have extremely bright yellow legs with the same dark scaling and also have quite a bit of yellow in...
Hello, my name is Andrew. After finally buying a house with some land I've decided to give raising my own poultry a shot. I am starting off my flock with some Black Australorps, Dark Brahmas, and Egyptian Fayoumi, all from Murry McMurry (along with 2 Pekin ducks from Tractor Supply). They're all...