i live in a place where i cant have roos either, i actually found a breeder and asked if they had any culls left adn thats what i got, they had crooked toes...doesnt harm the bird on bit and i got birds i know are pullets. he got rid of birds that where useless and i got beautiful birds that i...
well i think i see 5 toes on one of the feet and the only 5 toed chickens are dorkings silkies and faverolles and process of elimination makes me think silkie or silkie cross
more then likely she wont milk much. you need to get very good lines to get much milk from pygmys and angoras if anything will diminish the amount of milk production...
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i was thinking the same thing...im just out of high school and think that your def. one of the most beautiful girls that i ahve ever seen, and the fact that you dont mind getting your hands dirty ie you take care of animals makes it even better. even if they think you are ugly now give...
they are not the best for wool????
from the research i ahve done there wool is fantastic because it ahs the most barbs per inch of any wool and it makes the best mixing wool, like with angora, or alpaca and because of the barbs it mixes well with shorter hairs. am i wrong? please correct me...
i have 2 ameraucanas that i got from a breeder as culls because they have curved toes, it doesnt seem to harm them in any way, and i got some really nice birds out of it...lol
i think they can come in white but i havent seen any on a hatchery website. there are other colors but you will have to go through a breeder. check out feathersite to see different colors
ok so a friend of mine has otters(all but blue) and she has siamese sables and siamese smoke pearls. i was wondering after looking through her colors book if it is plausible to get any martens out of a breeding. after looking over possible genetics i *think* she should be able to get a smoke...
i hate to be the bearer of bad news but if thats from a hatchery then its a Easter Egger not an Ameraucana, and you can never tell what color they will be, because they are essentually(sp?) mutts
kikos are more resistant then boer goats disease wise i was told, but if you want to look at your goats, ie watch them kikos in the us are predominantly white, boers are mixtures of black red and white, and spanish is everything in between. personally i wouldnt go with pygmys because many people...
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Usually they're a little tougher (because they actually USE their muscles ), but they have had more flavor, from my experiences...
yes and no. meat birds ie cornish cross arent because they are butchered so young. but layers and roosters if left to grow over time are tougher, makes...
a black bird crossed to a splash will ALWAYS give you a blue
blackxblack=black
bluexblue=25%black 50%blue and 25%splash
splashxsplash=splash
bluexsplash=blue and splash
bluexblack=blue and black
splashxblack=blue