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I'm not doing it, at least especially not this year, and if I did, I wouldn't sell anything as pure that I wasn't 110% sure was pure. I was thinking about it as a theoretical question/experiment. I will probably experiment for my own purposes, or just keep the faverolles hens in the pen and...

Very pretty! I know I'll be getting the Salmons from Sand Hill. I'm getting another, separate trio of Salmon Faverolles from a breeder, but I will have those in their own coop. I have no worries about picking out the pure SFs. What I'm more worried about is being able to pick out the pure...

I haven't gotten them yet, and I'm getting them from Sand Hill. This is all theoretical, btw. If they shouldn't ever do it, then great. I don't know much of anything about chicken genetics, I just know in rabbits (my reference point), you can have a pedigree going back 8+ generations, with...

I guess this is why it can't work unless you know the genotype of the chickens in question :/

My Ameraucanas are purebred. The Salmon Faverolles are supposed to be purebred. My concern isn't with the crosses so much as being able to pick out the purebred chicks without a doubt. So if I hatched all the SF eggs in one section and all the AM eggs in one section, I would want to be sure of...

I think you'd have to be pretty positive about the genetics of the chickens in question. For instance, if the Faverolles had genetics for 4 toes or non-feathered legs, automatically it would be a bust because it's possible you would get 4-toes, non-feathered mutts masquerading as purebred...

Based on what I can find, the Faverolle hens will be easiest to pick through by down. Ameraucana/Faverolle would have black down, Faverolle/Faverolle would have yellow down. For the Ameraucana eggs, all chicks would be black or blue. It would then be dependent on looking at toes and feathering...

BBS Ameraucana and Salmon Faverolles. I don't know enough about the Faverolles at hatch to know if it would be possible, but I'm trying to understand if it would work in theory. I know I'd need to learn more about genetics (such as feathered feet, color dominance, etc.), but I'm intrigued to...

Ok, first, I haven't done this and I keep my pens pure for pure breeds. I would like to put another coop in, but we'll see. But I have an honest question about how chicken fertilization works and how two roosters over a set of chickens could work. With rabbits, if you breed a doe of breed a to...

I've been trying to find out more information about roosters who are aggressive to the hens, but most of what I find is simply people saying, "He's just trying to mate with the hens and hasn't learnt yet." I'm not sure myself that's what it is, but since he was the one based on looks I wanted to...

OK, so I still have some time. It's only day 14 around here and I'm all anxious to candle and the next week. I know that around day 17-18 I stop turning and start going into lockdown. No opening of the unit at all. But I've also heard that the humidity needs to go up. So my question is how...

Here's some pics. They're not super close, but you can even see the difference in redness and size between the 2 & 3 pics and the rest of them. But any tips anyone has on sexing them (feathers or otherwise!) I would greatly appreciate.

That helps, thank you! I need to learn more about chicken genetics.

OK, so I am not here to debate Ameraucana/Easter Egger. I understand that crossing varieties that have different genetics (e.g., crossing a blue Ameraucana to a wheaten ameraucana) will not produce a bird to breed standard. My question is if I had a true-to-standard blue Wheaten or a Wheaten...

I will try to go out and take some pictures later this evening but I was wondering if someone could give me some tips on sexing blue/black Ameraucanas? My birds are still a little young compared to what my breeder told me (sex by feathers at 4-5 months old), but I'm noticing that three of the...

My 31 turned into 24 when I found 7 boys lurking among my Anconas and Delawares. So they had to go to auction. The goal all along (well.... all along since April) was to keep about 20 girls and 2 boys. Problem is my 5 olive egger ladies turned out to be 4 roosters and 1 lady. So that puts me...

We're actually building a brooder now.... But I plan on using it immediately to quarantine birds I get at the swap. So it may be bigger than necessary and will be a multi-purpose brooder, but I'm OK with that.

Looks like everyone's a bit all over Frederick :) I'm only a few miles outside of downtown Frederick, though the way it looks you wouldn't immediately guess it!

OK, so in good fashion, I like to do everything at once :) At some point this year, I would really like to get into raising rabbits for meat, but in order to do that this year, I need to start deciding which rabbit I want and talk to the breeders about getting on their waiting list. I've...

That link was extremely helpful, thank you. It supports what I told my boyfriend just the other day--we need to build more ventilation into the coop this weekend. That'll be our next step! (Followed by downsizing the flock, as our ultimate goal is 20-23 chickens.) If we add ventilation...