Hi all,
I just want to check with you on the wing feathers of my broody Silkie hen. The ends are getting stripped/broken. I have just inspected her, no feather loss elsewhere. It's summer now where we are, with high temps. I do observe her pretty closely and do not know of any bullying going...
Hey fellow Silkie enthusiasts, I've got 2 roosters and 8 hens in a lot of different colours, and am wondering what groups to form and what offspring they could produce.
I have a Buff rooster, and a Splash one.
For hens I have:
2 Buff
1 White, I assume recessive
1 Black
1 Grey-ish
1 Black...
We're now the proud owners of our own Barbu D'Uccle flock, and are so excited! The roosters are less common colours, and so I'm looking for breeding tips on who to pair, or what pairings to avoid, and what expected outcomes could be.
Here's what we got:
Porcelain hens
Millefleur hens
Silver...
I was lucky to get one single Groninger Meeuw bantam hen. They're quite rare. She was with a rooster before she came to us, so we have a chance of incubating her egg.
She arrived at ours, together with some other chickens, on 22/10. Since then, a few eggs have been laid - but they could be...