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  1. M

    Is the color of the Red Sex-Link a variety of partridge/wildtype?

    the white bits in an isa brown looks kind of wildish
  2. M

    What will the offspring of this 2 chickens look like?

    Welsummer rooster cross hen from a white leghorn hen and lav araucana rooster, the hen is a typical ee looking hen with white feathers and some black feathers here and there, the welsummer is just your common welsummer
  3. M

    Does only one rooster crow in a flock if there is 2 roosters?

    My rooster is not crowing only my old rhode island red rooster crows the other fella is about a year old but he does not crow and he is nervous but Im pretty sure he is breeding with the hens.is he scared to crow or is the rhode island red rooster just top of the game and only he has permission...
  4. M

    would a hen go broody straight after raising a previous batch?

    i bought a hen from a farmer and the hen had some chicks with it they are about 6 weeks old now and the mother is losing interest in them. the farmer dude said that this hen always goes broody and i want to put my own chicken eggs under her to hatch out after i sell the other chicks. do i have...
  5. M

    What breeds are these hens?

    I bought these hens from a man who was getting rid of his excess chickens, the reddish one looks a little like my isa brown hen but this one has a more small size and more of a elegant looking shape, the bluish and white one look the same, i asked the man what breeds they are and he was a little...
  6. M

    where did my little rooster get his leg feathering from?

    My little rooster has leg feathering even though his parents are cleaned leg his father is a Welsummer and his mother is an ex battery hen called an isa brown i think.. I dont have any leg feathered chickens in my flock and i want to use this little guy for breeding when hes the age to breed...
  7. M

    Is this a rooster?

    This chick i hatched from my own incubator, if i can remember i think it is a Welsummer x Isa brown/Cochin, does he look like a roo? as a small chick
  8. M

    Flashback from my childhood

    Hello friends I just wanted to share a funny yet awful incident that happened to me when I was growing up as a kid back in Mauritius. Well one day my mother was making a stew in the yard of my former house, The stew was a mix of vegetables like lentils,peas and potatoes from what i can remember...
  9. M

    Rooster ate mango skin and seems to be resting a lot,Should I be worried?

    My Welsummer rooster Cadbury got into the trash and took some discarded mango fruit skin to eat, he is now just sitting in one place for the past 4 hours he is always running about. he is alert though but he is not getting up and mango skin are quite thick im worried it might have affected him...
  10. M

    when does a chick begin to poop?

    sorry for the stupid question but I am a bit worried that my newly hatched chick about 1 day old has not pooped yet my last batch had a chick that did not pooped and died, i later checked her body and she had a dry vent but i checked this chick and she had no dry vent. she is healthy running...
  11. M

    candled Araucana eggs on day 17 is it meant to be pitch black?

    I have 6 araucana eggs sitting in my incubator and i candled the eggs for the last time and some of the eggs have the large air cell and have a tiny black scrunchy like mass floating at the bottom while one is just pitch black and all my other eggs from my leghorn and isa brown are also pitch...
  12. M

    Does candling too much affect incubation of egg?

    I have a habit where i must check the development of a baby chicken every time I go to turn the eggs, I only candle about 2 eggs out of a dozen for example per day and I hold them for no longer than 7 seconds and I also use a not too strong Everyday brand flashlight, the eggs are on about day 7...
  13. M

    What is a good and low-cost diet for a hen that is going to be used for breeding?

    I have some leghorn hens that are going to be used to pass on some chicks, my last hatches were not that good i suspect bad diets the previous diets they fed on were corn and lettuce along with whatever weeds and creatures they found in my garden, does anyone suggest something better?
  14. M

    Welsummer roo over a Lavender Ameraucana hen=Color of chicks?

    Good day, I have bred my Welsummer roo to my Lav. Ameraucana hen, I am hoping the offspring will be a partridge looking chick, the welsummer roo is a purebred and he looks like your typical Junglefowl type colored rooster, the last time i bred a white cochin and a Silver duckwing mutt rooster to...
  15. M

    is this weird advice to stop a rooster from crowing?

    so i asked a local farmer if he has rooster that dont crow that much and he straight away guesses that i am a city folk that wants to breed poultry so i need a rooster and he was exactly right..... here comes the weird part he takes me out to his pens where he keeps his roosters and picks out...
  16. M

    wil leaving a rooster with hens for less than a day promise fertility?

    in my area i am not permitted to keep roosters but i have a friend who is willing to let me borrow his rooster to make my hens egg fertile so i can hatch them out?
  17. M

    healthy looking rooster but has a tumour like bump on padding of foot what is it?

    i believed i may have been ripped off by a farmer the rooster has a bump on his feet, walks normal but the bump on his foot makes him walk off balance and he also has very loose skin on his breast muscles. what kind of condition is this and at the moment he is roaming with my other flock of...
  18. M

    is a younger rooster better than an older rooster for breeding purposes?

    my current rooster who was hatched December 2010 has not been making the eggs fertile and seems to be less interested in mating shoul i replace with a younger rooster?
  19. M

    partridge silkie roo over buff silkie hen results?

    what color would the offspring be and would the chicks have chipmunk-like stripes?
  20. M

    is it true that what a hen eats will effect her quality of eggs?

    i hear that depending on a hen's diet her eggs come out different say if she lacks calcium the shell of the egg is poor and if a free range hen eats wild grass and insects the yolk is more rich in vitamins that is either good for human food or for hatching.
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