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So i have read allot people have a hard time candling eggs when the shell is dark. So I have figured out that in this day and age of Technology the LED flashlight on our cell phones is a super bright light that can handle any egg no matter what color, including quail eggs. Obvously this only...

I now have two hens that crow. Menopause maybe? Both recently started laying everyday then suddenly stopped one day. One even went broody after three years of never sitting on eggs. It's hard to tell if they're "spent" or not because it's pretty hot here and egg production is pretty unreliable...

I have a Malaysian serama. She shows all the normal characteristics. I ha e had to clutches from her first clutch was beautiful but "pharel" very mean attacked and killed a few hens, so they had to go in the smoker with some oak and cherry in order to enjoy them. Second clutch was fun I thought...

When a hen crows it is an imbalance of hormones most likely due to some sort of infection in her reproductive glands. This damage can be a long term problem or a life long defect. Vitamins for chickens and calcium seem to help.

I am doing a little cleaning and some last touches of paint then I will post some pics...

At X-mas time Home Depot and Lowe's set up a tree coral for the sale of tree's, but after xmas is over they sell the fencing they use dirt cheap. It's a great start for an outdoor run. We wrap smaller chicken wire under and around and on top of course but a few 8' metal fence posts (we used the...

I made my incubator as well I have made a few slight mods to it along the way. I try to keep a cost effective frame of mind to the whole chicken raising and breeding. I use the old fashion still incubator technique and hand turn 3 times a day. My incubator cost me $20 to make out of plywood and...

One thing is make sure you have accurate light however you candle them. I prefer to look at day 7 then 14 then I check again at day 18 when I increase humidity. Make sure to keep the eggs upright, wide end up when candling. The lines are good, those are the veins feeding the embryo. Spots are...

I am in south central FL so we have the lizards everywhere. My RIR is like the lizard and bee hunter she likes to live on the edge I guess...lol It's kinda neat how she breaks all the little bones in the lizard up until there mushy and then gobbles them down. The bee's she grabs out of the air...

The fake plastic animals don't work well unless they're the electronic head moving kind, and even at that you have to move it all the time. I know this sounds redneck and depending on where you live you could get in trouble for it, but where I live the neighbors are very fond of fireworks which...

I have grown to love the color now from seeing how hard it is to get just the right color of olive. Although I am still a little confused as to weather she is an EE or Ameraucana, some say its an egg color thing others say it's all about feathers and form. All in all she is one of my best layers...

I had more than one roo, but they had plenty of room in the yard and they were from two different hatches so the older of the two was the dominant and had "his" hens and the littler had hens that hatched at the same time as him. I never had any fighting between them it just got really noisy in...

Sounds impossible but I had a polish cockrell start crowing at 3 weeks. It was scratchy and very high pitch but he did about 3 times before we had to get rid of him. I find that if you have another roo around the younger males will start to follow suit earlier than if they were the only roo...

Sue our Malaysian Serama. I just love her.

Ours is "Darla" our Polish. She has always followed me around ever since she was a little chick. She's got more personality going on than a psych ward! I leaned a trick for our chicks from my Sis's groomer in R.I. She uses a stocking cut horizontally to make rings, like a rubber band, to put...

Here is Sue Our "Malaysian Serama"...I think.

Here is our OE "Ebony" and her first olive egg. I originally wanted/purchased an Ameraucana hen for the bluish eggs but alas this is what we got...

Oh I forgot to mention I have been waiting for about three months or so for her to lay so I could breed her with her Roo who hates me and crows all **** day. I wanted dalmatian looking chickens that lay blue/green eggs.

So then my chicken looks like an Ameraucana but is actually a mix right, that's what your telling me. I understand the lineage behind how they came to be, and that they are NOT rump-less. I also understand that if you mix the colors between Ameraucana the Club people turn up their noise. There...