hey its brandon
my friend gave my 8 silkies, but one of them seems to be different. she has no crest, and no signs of one, and has red skin on her face, yet black legs. im so confused!! the only reason i think its a girl is because i caught one of the young cockerels attempting to mate with her...
hey its brandon,
im confused!
will a silkie hen chest-bump/fight with a silkie cockerel??
i think s/hes a hen, pompom crest, a lot of saddle feathers covering the tail feathering (which is short and neat), making hen sounds, but she has longer legs than the other hens has a bigger body shape...
hey its brandon
ive had my 8 silkies for 3 or 4 months now
they were in a chicken tractor up the top of the field until a week ago, when i moved them into the adult main coop.
when can i let them out to free range over 3 acres????i dont want them going back to the old coop or getting confused...
hey its brandon,
i thought it would be fun to have a name game! you tell me the names of your chickens, and your reason for the name, maybe some pics, and i will judge 1st to 5th place according to, comedy value, most original, food reference, look-like-the-fowl, play on words, doubles that go...
hey its brandon,
i wanted to hatch chicks under a hen rather than incubator for a while now, and one of my hens became extremely broody....but shes a commercial egg layer, a warren(isa brown) which has supposed to have broodieness bred out of her.
so, should i put eggs under her and make my...
hey its brandon!
i see quite a lot of people on here claiming they have beautiful and amazing cross breed chickens,
so what do they look like?????
lets all get together and post pics of our crosses and info so that all us others can share your experience with some magnificent looking birds in...
hey its brandon.
at the moment i have 3 brothers that have been living together since hatch. they are living in the main coop with thier mums and 12 other birds. I want to breed them, so im planning on making three breeding pens all with a rooster and different hens eg blackrock, sussex, silkie...
hey its brandon,
i have 4 old english game bantam chicks, 2 boys and 2 girls. i really need to know how big they will grow, so i know how tall to make the new coop, if i can let them free range in the day etc, and what other bantams can they go with, to breed? (like my silkie hens?).
Do you have...
hey its brandon,
i have 7 3 month old silkies in black, partridge, white and buff, and need to know any tell tale signs of gender. ther are 2 distictive groups, both groups differ completely in looks, but the have the same size comb and wattles etc. any help would be amazing, i need to know...
hey its brandon!
One of my isa brown hens lays a double yolker every saturday morning around 9am!
They look huge! Why is this? Is this consitancy or co-incidence??
I dont know which one it is. I also have a light sussex and rhondda blue running in this coop with the 8 isa browns, could be any...
Hi I have recently aquired 12 bantam chicks(about 6 wk old)
7 are silkies, 1 rumpless game, and 1 barevelder, but what are the other 3?
1:
Shamo cockerel maybe?
2:
Shamo Pullet maybe? sorry about image quality, s/he is flighty!
3:
This one is a complete mistery. Head looks like a dutch...
Hey its brandon
I have recently aquired 12 bantam chicks(pullets and cockerels 6 wk olds), and the rumpless game i had has a tail! (almost a sebright hen style tail)!!!
Is it not pure bred, if so what is it crossed with, it has every detail of a rumpless except it has a tail!
Is it genes?
Here...
Hey its brandon
today about 5pm i went out and collected the eggs. At 9pm I went out and candled the hatching eggs. And one was clear, which had a fully formed chick the day before. It looked exactly like he hacthing egg. So i ran in the house and candled todays collection! One had the chick...
Hey its Brandon
So my Rhondda blue hen has been setting eggs for 2 weeks and 3 days now, and today one pipped. Well it looks like its pipped, i didnt see it happen, i just checked in on her and there was a break. It looks exactly like a pip, ive had lots of hatches before. The chick is not...
Hey its Brandon
Ive been looking for a Roo to look after my flock, and to hatch chicks, but my neighbor doesn't like them, and i found out the hard way. I had A RIR, he was WAAAYYY to loud and had to go, my neighbor has chickens, we live in a rural area, but he wont accept a noisy Roo, and...
Hey its Brandon
Got any really unusual, weird or wonderful birds you want to show off?
pure bred, cross bred or barnyard selections?
Show them off here with pics and breed info (nothing big e.g. PIC = RIR cross white Silkie, 5 months old)
Thanks for the Pics in advance, I will post mine soon!
Hey it's brandon!
so today i bought a cat ( she is tame and calm, scared of dogs and quite lazy MOST of the day, until about 10pm and then she went into crazy hyper active playful mood), but i didnt think about the chickens, how are cats with them? will she attack them? Its ok in the coop...
Hi its brandon.
I have quite a few chicks at the mo ( 20 or so) in a brooder. But i have decided to try using a broody hen. It is now days away from hatch date, and something dawned on me, how do i stop the chicks eating layers pellets and mummy eating the chick starter??? As you can see, I have...