I'm sitting at school thinking about my silkie babe back home. I just want to be back with my chicken! This is more a life question than a chicken question, lol, but what do you all think I should do: I really want to breed chickens, but I'm almost 17 and will be moving away from home in the...
So, I've had chickens for between a month and two months. My dad designed and built the coop himself. Up until a week ago, I had six 7-week-old chicks and three easter egger hens and didn't have any problems whatsoever. Then, one day I came home from school and went out to collect eggs as...
Definitely the right coloring, but mine looks awful small compared to the hens pictured. Hmmm. Maybe the breeder just started inbreeding smaller birds that happened to have the right coloring.
He said it wasn't mixed. I mean, he surely could have been mistaken. But I specifically remember him saying specific breeds for two of the three hens I bought off of him and saying the third was a mix. But the one he said was a mix was this girl:
Does anyone know of a good online source for first time breeders? I'm interested in it and can't seem to find a really good site.
Also: Can you get show quality birds eventually out of breeding a pq with an sq? I don't necessarily mean in the first generation, but second or third. Do...
Why, thank you! When I first got my hens my boyfriend and I were determined to hold them and we chased them all around their little yard until we each had held every one of them. I wasn't used to holding chickens and couldn't always hold their wings down. I screamed every time they flapped...