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I have 3 light brahma hens that have taken to my Lavender Orpington roo, and my cuckoo Marans has gracefully sat upon their eggs, along with her own (cuckoo maransXbirchen marans roo). Can anyone tell me what the babies might look like? I am guessing that they will be black, but I don't know...

I got about 4 lavender orpington chicks that were born in January, and 2 ended up pullets, we had one pullet die overnight for no apparent reason in about March/April and then just this weekend had the other pullet die for no apparent reason. Is their a fatal gene in Lavender Orpingtons that...

I have heard that pheasants can transmit diseases to Chickens, and vice versa, and was worried about a wild male pheasant that I keep finding in my chicken run, and sometimes foraging closely behind my ladies when they freerange. Is this something I need to be concerned about, or only if I left...

I would like to start breeding my ladies and am looking to cross a Cochin to create a good winter-laying, cold hardy, and docile hen. I also need a roo that won't attack my wee people, cat, and dog. I love the look of the Golden Laced version, but would consider other Cochin Variations. I...

We have 4 Black Marans, 3 Barred Rocks, and 1 RIR, and we were thinking of breeding for more egglayers. It is cool where I live, most of the year and doesn't really get above 80. I also have younger children and would like a roo that I could feel comfortable having the kids around. If I bred...

I think these are a mixed flock of bantams, but a breed they might be from would be handy. I am terrified that I might have gotten 3 roos, but hoping I am wrong Not sure how to post images, so here is an album I made on facebook that is public...

Hi everyone! We inherited 10 chickens with our recent home/acreage purchase, lost one within 5 days of possession to sour crop (we believe), and are now wanting to build a new coop (the old one is of very poor design off the tool shed) and a new run. My questions are, with these ladies being...

Not that this is a pressing issue, but I have what I believe to be 3 Barred Rocks, 2 Rhode Island Reds, and 4 Australorps. I get mostly Light brown eggs, brown eggs tinted a pink color, brown eggs with dark spots, and occasionally....A WHITE egg?! I eat them, they taste good, but they are such...

I am a new chicken owner, we were "city slickers" that bought a tree/vegetable/egg farm turn-key and have been in the house for a week. We noticed one of our Rhodies laying around the run, not leaving it to explore and forage, and normally the chickens are still pretty skittish of us, but she...