Well...we started with 9 Lavender Orpingtons and 9 Isa Browns..until one day or several days..our hens went MIA. A live trap produced a opossum..not the killer. Another time, a wild cat...maybe, but then we saw a hawk!!!!?? Could be...every few days more went a miss.
Fast forward..down to 5...
Our Lavender Rooster cross with 4 Isa Brown and 2 Lavender and 1 i have no clue hens..
Love these chicks, very hardy but fearful...ideas on helping their anxiety?
They are about 2 weeks old. It's been years since we raised any..like the old Styrofoam incubator and manually turn eggs, watch...
We have a lavender rooster, 2 unknown probably buff and all.black hen with blue tinge to feathers, 4 isa browns, 2 lavender hens..
Hatching now... one chick out and all dark with black beak..
I know probably not a good cross but it's what we have and they are healthy. I'm well aware of isa...
Howdy,
We have always had chickens and years ago.We had a broody hen and raised a few of our own.
We recently decided.
To incubate some of our eggs from our current flock which is only sixhaens and one rooster. The rooster is a lavender and hens are 2 lavender, 4 isa brown, and 1 buff? And 1...