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I know my hen has consistently laid 13 eggs before brooding and sat on them all. Is that unusual? Out of them all only 2 seem to be unfertilized both times and the first hatch she lost them all to fire ants so I can't say how many she would have abandoned on hatch day. The second time she...

Anyone ever cross a Japanese Bantam with a Delaware Heritage? I'm considering trying a mix on my Black Tailed White pullets and future Delaware Roo whenever the eggs I just got in hatch.

So I'm very new to Japanese Bantams and my question above about the chick being Mottled or not was based on the understanding that Mottled chicks are born with Pale yellow bodies that have a white spot on their head. I read on another thread that they could come in penguin or yellow with the...

new chicks!

I think it was the combination of a feral dog and a windy day. At first I thought I'd lost one and then he crowed and I saw him up there and couldn't imagine how I'd get him down. He did eventually come down that day on his own luckily.

I Thought I'd share a pic of one of my adventuresome roos.

Thanks for your thought, I'm still gonna wait it out in hopes. They all had the classic black dot on the head and came out of grey parents and like I said they started out with a lot more black as chicks. Guess we'll see!

Hey all! I'm wondering when mottleds start getting their adult plumage in? My current flock of chicks are almost 3 months old and have had a molt or 2 and while they do look different from their first chick feathers they are still painfully light. In fact this current molt has seen a loss in...

Trying to figure out what color these chicks are going to turn into. They came out of my Grey Japanese Bantams, which is a single type flock all Grey Japanese bantams with the short legs. This is the parent flock: This is George. It has very little white on it, pretty much just on the...