What do you consider to be the most desirable traits in breeding your barnyard mixes? A cool feather pattern? Beards?
For me it is orange feathers mixed in with grey or black feathers. I would absolutely love to breed in some beards to my marans as well.
So I need a large incubator. Like, 50-100 eggs. Preferably a tiered one but I can deal with single layers. MUST have auto turning. What would you guys recommend?
I saw this a few minutes ago in a chick that hatched about half hour ago, then took the picture cause she’s peeping like she’s in pain right now. What do I do?
Clearly the ram was up to no good, because we have a set of twin lambs that were popping out when my mom took care of her sheep this morning.
(Picture credit to my mom)
Supposedly there is one boy and one girl. Mom is planning on naming them Lee and Rosemary after the characters from When Calls...
So everyone seems to be doing this, so here’s mine! Ask away, all questions must be within BYC rules, and please do not ask about any personal info. I’m not going to respond to those :)
Today I found my dear Lancelot dead in the bachelor pad. All ripped up, head off, etc. I’m thinking not a Coon, or a weasel. I did not take pictures though, just buried him.
We will miss you, my dear rooster.
I was trying to post in the funny posting contest, but it won’t let me.
At first I thought it was just because of the picture, and I needed to add text, but it kept on doing it. Is something wrong?
So A little bit of backstory here so my hen fell underneath the waterer she was probably perching on it since it is a bowl, and then it tipped over and she got stuck underneath it so now she’s breathing funny she’s been stuck underneath it for about I’m gonna say 24 hours at least and she’s...