Well I haven't been in this section for a while... But it seems I'm now back and in a big way.
Back in August a lady from an old co-op put out a please for easter eggers. At the time I happened to have about 24 eggs I had saved up and sent them to her for the cost of shipping. She had some...
In the pen, I have a large hybrid rooster and an easter egger girls. Some of the girls are americana some are easter eggers.
The price only includes the blue and green eggs in the picture (those are the eggs) they have all been laid since Thursday. I'll be shipping as soon as someone claims...
I see some members with multiple listings. When I try to add a classified it says I can only have one open classified. At what point do you get to have more than one listing? I am a Golden Feather Member.
I have two flocks right now and two coops and two runs.
The one roo is an English Orphington and about 10 months old. He is the roo for my established layer flock.
The other roo is a black broiler and about 7 months old. he is the roo for my mixed meaty pen and has some younger red laced...
Somewhere in my coop I have an egg eater. I knew this and haven't yet caught them. My broody was sitting on 7 or 8 eggs. One was broken early I thought it was a mistake that maybe mama made. Well they are only a few days from hatching and 2 eggs have just disappeared and the other eggs have...
I have started hatching chicks from some of my experimental crosses.
For those who don't want to do CX's...
If you could get local chicks that were a cross of say marans x Orp that grew to 5 lbs./ 3 dressed lbs. in 13 weeks would it be something you would be interested in? Also that means...
I got this guy last weekend from a lady who didn't help any with breeds. She says she thinks it is a cross between her bantam and her big girls LOL>
His mix is so pretty got me wondering to who his parents might be.
Also I got more than one and this one is trying to convince me he's a...
I have what i call a lavendar (possibly splash) americauna hen
I bred her to a 100% Black English Orphington.
I hatched out a chick that is silvery very much like her mother was in the incubator
Really hard to see the color here can't get enough light in there.
So...
I have a Black English Orphington over some barred rocks. Will the babies be sex link? I have read you can put a black roo over barred rocks but couldn't confirm it would work with an orphington.
Will the males have white dots on the head or females?
I know with RIR roo the white dot is...
So for the most part my and hubby don't like any of the duck we have tasted. It is always very dark and greasy. While we like dark and light chicken meat, greasy food turns our stomach.
SO...... As I read more about ducks I would love to give them a go for their many fine qualities...
Title says it all. I was considering getting 2 emu's, though that would require a substantial investment in fencing. I've read the meat is like lean beef. They lay 15 - 50 eggs per year and weigh 110-140 pounds grown. So If I raised 6 per year I could maybe do away with my grass fed beef...
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I have a mixture of girls covered by a very well behaved large hybrid rooster. He is black with gold/orange around his neck. He also has a pen mate rooster who is an all black...
I have a nice english Orphington Roo over some very blue ameraucana's.
This should produce green easter eggers right? Not as dark as a marans over an ameraucana but green. If the parents are pure meaning the ameraucana has two blue gene's and the Orphington a true Orphington is there a...
I'm in Tallahassee. I'd love to have anyone who hhas tried this or has experience help me along or such. I am willing to travel. I'll have bird in about 7 weeks to caponize. If this is you let me know.
On the reverse side anyone in the area, if I do a day of caponize you are welcome to...
I bought some black broilers earlier this summer. Liked them and went back to get more. Well the lady who ran the place was gone and the helper gave me some chickens that I think was some kind of fancy grab bag. The one from earlier this summer turned out all black and grew a nice size, the...
I have a young Rooster about 16 weeks old he has started mounting the girls (mostly without their permission). Does this mean he's fertile and making my eggs fertile?
Some of my eggs have bullseyes when cracked but they've had that for a while because I got rid of a Rooster about 4 weeks ago...
Ok so I have mentioned before I need to speed up my process and some things just won't change but my hubby found a video with some things he'd like to try which may speed things up during processing.
First question anyone who snips the heads off or wings off with scissors what brand / kind do...
I see many people who put hardware cloth on the sides of the run and chicken wire on the top.
If raccoon can rip through chicken wire wouldn't they just climb to the top of the run tear through the wire and then 'drop' in?
Is there something in their behavior that only tests the sides of the...
I have a chick that was hatched today. He has a protrusion which from reading I believe to be a navel protrusion. It sticks out about 1/2". and there is a hole there that is about the size of a q-tip end.
The protrusion has gotten slightly bigger from early to now. When she moves around or...
Oh we need the rain here in florida and a tropical depression is nothing generally. But......
I'm in the middle of a hatch. Specifically I had one hatch out looking bad but 2 hours later still breathing the shell on half. Kept checking in on him. He as breathing (sure he's stop cause when...