Which chicken lays the bluest egg? Blue Americana have a bluish green egg but are light in color, maybe a light blue green mint pastel look. Will the Blue Wheaton Americauna be bluer?
Anyone up for starting on April 9Th? We are very new to incubation and it will be our second go at it. First will finish this weekend ish. Day 21 is Sat afternoon. Could use some experiened folks leading the charge.
We've done enough reading and studying about still air incubation, with this unit, to be confidently confused and joyfully filled with doubt. Doing the dry run today and making adjustments tomorrow with a new hydrometer and thermometer. We get our Barred Rock eggs Saturday morning from the...
Just starting my build. I will post photos here over the next week. Currently I am using my cell and updating my chicken page on Facebook as I go. All of that will get transferred here too.
For those on FB my page is, Bert's Chicks. If there is more than one it is the one in Fayetteville, NC...
Mary and I are putting in two hives this spring. Our package bees will be available between March 28th and April 4th. Honey flow is between 1 May and ends around 1 June so we probably wont get anything this year, unless the late blooming cotton is planted this year. I am not sure where the crop...
My wife and I recently started our first flock together. We both grew up raising chickens and other farm animals. The memories of the farm life are something we felt needed to be passed on to our children. Mary and I had been discussing it for a couple of years when I surprised her on Feb 13th...