I have about 10 RIR's that look and sound very mature. But they are only 5 months old! how old was one of your hens when she laid her first egg? Is it possible if some of my hens lay eggs at only 5 months or do they need to be oldder? When is the soonest a hen can lay an egg? Their earlobes...
One of my friends gave me 6 little Polish chicks about a year ago, i think they turned out to be very pretty birds. But the problem is that i know nothing about Show quality birds. so what do you think? are they SQ?
i would like to show some of them.... So what do you think?
I just bought 10+ silkie eggs off of ebay earlier today and I cant wait for them to get here. This is my first time hatching silkies and im excited!! They should arrive the 26 but i'm going to let them set for 12 hours before I set them. I couldn't wait for them to arrive to start a thread I'm...
I just bought 10+ silkie eggs from ebay but I heard that silkie eggs were harder to hatch. Is this true? if you have hatched silkies before did they seem harder to hatch (lower hatching percentage)? i really hope to get a good hatch.
Thanks
i went to TSC the other day and bought a few chicks, i also bought 12 chicks from the "Red Production" bin all but 3 of them look like i would have expected with a red color coming in as feathers
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but the other 3 look more like a buff color to me.. is there a chance that the 2 breeds...
i made the misstake of going into TSC the other day knowing that there would be chicks, so i came back out with 6 more new chicks! im starting to run out of room. but anyways i need help figuring out the breed of this one little chickie.
any ideas?
i have so many chicks but im starting to run out of names... so what do u think their names should be?
here is the first one, its a EE (i think its a pullet)
So lets hear those good chicken names!!
ill post pic of the others later.
this chicks is about a week old now and i was wondering if it was an EE or not. I got him at TSC in the mixed bantam bin thinking i might have an EE. so what do you think? Also if it is an EE what color will it feather out to be?
If you could post pictures of your EE that had this coloring...
he is only a week old, but i think that is feathers have come in enough to tell what kind of breed he is. i got him (or her) at TSC in the mixed bantam bin... Any guesses on what he/she could be?
Any guesses would help out, Thanks
i have white and partridge silkies i bought from a hactchery that are not even close to show quaility but i have buff, blue, and cuckoo silkies who are show quality. and i was wondering if in was to mix the show quality with the non SQ and will end up with white and part. show quality or smoe...
i just hatched out a few silkies and i was wondering how often do they go broody? i heard that they go broody ALOT but how much is that? i really dont have any more room but i dont want to have a broody hen not hatch any chicks. also what age do they usally go broody? its my first time having...
i have a bunch of sillkies of different colors (white, partridge, blue, buff, and cuckoo) and if i was to incubate their eggs what colors would i get? which color will would be more dominant? or would i get mixed colors like half bule and half white?
i want to buy some white or partage silkie chicks or eggs (dosent matter which one) but i dont know which hatcheries have good show quality silkies. i dont want any from a bad hatchery and get poor birds with small to no crest and little feathers on the toes. so does anyone know of a good...
i would like to show some of my chickens maybe my polish but most likely my silkies (all colors)
but i never done this before and dont know what they look for and what makes it "show quality"? can someone help cause i want to show some birds
i have a few non bearded polish and some EE and i was wondering if i breed them would i get a chicken with a beard and a crested that lays green eggs? has anyone ever tried this? would i get some that are EE and some that are polish but not mixed? how do you think it will turn out?
thanks
im thinking about geting more chickens but i dont know which breed to get.i want a very nice bird who will not fight will my other birds. so to give me an idea, whats your favorite breed of chicken and why? if you can i would like to have a pic of them so i know what it looks like. so lets see...
i have hatched eggs before but never shiped eggs so im worried. i heard it was hard to hatch shiped eggs and silkies. my eggs arived yesterday and they have been siting out for 20 hrs now and i would really like someone to join me. dosent matter what breed it is as long as you are hatching...
my shippment of silkie eggs arrived today and i was so happy. i took them out, recived 2 extras and placed the in a egg carton to cool for 24 hours. they where in perfect condition. i closed the door and went outside. but went i got back i saw that the dog was in the room with the eggs and has...
i bought 12+ americauna and 8+ silkie eggs from ebay and they should arive on the 5th. i have incubated before but they were from my own flock, never shipped eggs.
im super scaried though, i have a felling that they wont hatch, and that would mean $50 down the drain. i heard it was hard to...