I’ve had the pleasure of owning a good handful of polish roosters throughout my chicken journey and unfortunately i’ve never met one with a good temperament. They love to attack and seem to be ill tempered always looking to flogg a leg. Have i just had bad luck with them or is this the norm for...
Silkies: the broodiest mother of all chickens breeds in the poultry kingdom. Whether it’s a hundred or seventeen degrees out, you can alway count on having a least one broody silkie hen. I can track my health throughout the year by looking at my unplanned hatchings, You know…the stuff that...
Chicks. I sold off the two dark ones and two paint chicks. Ursula and Hulk are paint silkies and i suspect that one of them is actually a dark blue paint.
I recently got a new rooster and he turned out to be a total jerk. He attacked my hand tonight when I was trying to clip his waterer back into place. I grabbed him and evicted him from his coop. My female Guinea hen normally loves roosters, he squared up and double barreled her right into the...
I think I made a frankencolor! Dark comb, red wattles, pigmented patches on neck, dark around eye skin. Is this critter recessive for the mottling gene? An alien species?It’s a….that looks gross while grooming itself. Only six weeks old.
I have a silkie pullet that has learnt that if she pecks the top of my boot twice, I’ll pick her up and put her in my lap for snuggles. She can be so demanding sometimes, I’ll cuddle her for a few minutes then put her back on the ground, she’ll come back peck the top of my boot for more. She...
I have several broody hens and I’ve run out of brooder pens for when the chicks hatch. I also collect roosters for some freaking reason! I hope my hatch isn’t mostly roosters because I’ll for sure get attached to at least one of them. “Raise chickens they said, it’ll be fun they said” It’s fun...
I have a micro project that I’ve been working on for a few years and their temperament is absolutely amazing. They pretty much hatch out of the eggshell already tamed. They love to be cuddled, picked up and are so loving that I almost step on at least one every day.
They are right underneath my...
I’ll start. This is Casanova, he is a mutt bird that has some sort of game bird in him. He has the guineas and the hens wrapped around his feather. His eyes look like a ring of fire!
Two little fluff butts hatched on Saturday from serama eggs. One chick has five toes on both feet and the other only has nine total. They are cute little blue buggers. I know they’ll be satin feathered but I wonder how big they will get, right not they are tiny little cotton balls. One appears...
I’m a true crazy chicken lady, I moved a few pet large fowl layers from the pasture pen to a Fort Knox pen (the silkie/ frizzle/ funky crew). I had to move some birds out to the pasture coop to put the pets with the silkies. I have a max number of birds that I’ll confine in a coop together. I...
I have this chick that came from a paint and black pair. I know it’s partridge colored. I’ve seen something about dominant white gene having mutations. So both my paint and my black have carry the eb (partridge) gene. Cock is Black but Carries both silver and gold. Hen is paint? This chick looks...
I’ve only been learning about poultry genetics for a few months, I’m absolutely hooked. My curiosity started when I bred a splash polish to my mottled rooster and got a chick with bright red down. I was like wha???
Chick down is red
Sire as a cockerel
As a cock