I've been wanting turkeys for the last year and finally talked my husband into getting a few. In February we bought 4 broad breasted bronze from a feed store and 3 survived to grow big. Right now they're big enough to slaughter, and watching them hobble about convinced me that what I really...
As soon as I get another hen that goes broody she will definitely find her way to the soup pot. A year ago, a few days before she was scheduled for the pot, a raccoon killed over half of my flock. I couldn't bear the thought of killing her after so much loss and her persistent broodiness has...
I have a bantam easter egger who is a serial broody that does an awesome job of incubating the eggs. Unfortunately, two days after hatch she always kills them. After the first time I thought it might've just been because she was new, but she did it a second time. The second time I caught her in...
Thank you! I'll keep an eye out for those dagger sharp saddle feathers. I'm still crossing my fingers I have more than 4 hens from the 10 chicks I bought.
Hello, I previously posted about these chicks in a different thread thinking they were something else but am still unsure what breed or gender they are. I bought 4 from a blue egg layer bin and 4 from a green egg layer bin. 4 have straight combs and 4 have pea combs. They're all about 8 weeks...
Thank you all! I did miss identify the rooster's comb. I think Wyandottes7 really hit the nail on the head. He looks identical to some of the Belgian Bearded D'Anvers I looked up. He definitely fits in the personally description too. He attacks anyone not willing to go through the effort of...
I adopted 7 chickens about 6 months ago and I was able to figure out the breeds of most of them but two remain a mystery to me. Any help would be appreciated. The two in question are the rooster (pea comb, slate legs, low hanging wings) and the blue/grey hen (lays light green eggs, pea comb...
Thank you for your input! So if not EEs, what do you think they are? They were advertised as blue/green egg layers. I thought EEs were essentially mutts with the blue/green egg gene.
I have 8, 5 week old EE's from a feed store and I suspect a few of them may be roosters based on what I've read here. I really crossing my fingers at least one is and my sister in law wants one if I have two. I appreciate all of your help!
The first one is white with red on the chest and random...