Hi All , I was very successful with my olive eggs I breed for last year. I Had a Mishaps with predators that left me without a Maran Rooster(mine was a BlackCopper Maran). So I Have a couple very nice 1-Blue-Copper & 1- Black-copper Maran Hens without a Boyfriend ...... So I also have a few...
We have 3 pure breeds/dominique, Ameracauna's, & maran, And we keep a productive rooster of each for breeding a couple times a year. Otherwise they live in a ajoining coop only separated from the hens by a plywood wall. And they all get along just fine after they decide their own pecking order...
Hi All, This winter we purchased some different breeds of chickens from the same person, One of the Groups of birds was 2- 5 month old aracana pullets and a 5 month old Beautiful blue aracana rooster. All were very friendly and great pure breed birds then one pullet became sluggish for about a...
We are fairly new to incubating eggs. We just placed our rooster with three hens. The hens have been in with other roosters. Question??? How many days should we collect eggs before we start to collect for incubation?
Also, how many days can we keep eggs at room temp safely before placing them in...
We are Jim & Phyl , Thanks for taking us into the BYC Family ! We have almost made a full circle on our little farm heaven on the ridge. Our kids when they were younger had done most all of the 4 H livestock projects that was possible, And we all had a Blast ! Now they have kids of their own...