I would like to find out where there are growers and breeders of Silver Penciled Wyandottes. I currently have Gold Laced and Silver Laced Wyandottes and would like to get some standard Silver Penciled since they originated in this area. We currently have Polled Hereford cattle, Wyandotte and...
Just wondering when you should add supplemental light for a longer day so your chickens will lay all winter. I just had a small producer from the next town stop by yesterday to buy some eggs to resell to her customers because her chickens have slowed down on egg production.
I get up at 5 am and...
We have an 18 month old Black Australorp that about every 2 weeks or so will drop a soft shelled (immature) egg at night while she is on the roost. I assume she is sleeping while she does this. At other times she will lay a normal egg in the nesting area. I'm giving them a commercial ground...
I'd like to hear of other grower's experiences with Ideal Hatchery's various varieties of standard Wyandottes. I would like to order in the spring of 2011, probably Buff, Silver, Gold, Columbian and Partridge, 50 or 60 chicks. Do they have good type? Good egg producers? healthy?
How common is it to have blue eyes in a mature hen? This Buff is almost 2 years old and unlike all the other chickens we have, her irrus is blue (ish). it's blue on the outside and turns more green as you get closer to the pupil. Just wondered if anyone else has a blue eyed chicken.