I have a chick with a fine strip of feathers down her legs. Mom is an Easter Egger (solid blue-grey, lays blue eggs) and Dad is an Australorp / Easter Egger cross (solid black with a few streaks of gold), both are clean legged.
The last time the chicks mom was out with our other rooster (who...
Ah, beautiful chicken math.
Anyway, mum and I decided to hatch a few eggs from the girls a few months ago, which hatched August 24. Ever since this one little Australorp-EE Bantam cross hatched, s/he's been my little buddy. Now, at around 5ish weeks s/he's beginning to grow up- s/he is just...
I was making cookies with an egg from one of our Rhodie Reds and happened to notice a little blood spot on the egg. Now, I know that it's common and perfectly fine to eat an egg with one, but I still had to do a little inspection. I didn't find anymore spots, but I did notice that the white...
I was just nervous that he'd get rough with her since we only have one female to him right now. But if you're saying it would surface early on, that makes me feel a little better based on their behavior. I honestly think I just got a bit freaked out after seeing how aggressive some drakes will...
I currently have two KC ducks (avatar): a drake and a hen, and I'm getting a Blue Swedish and a Cayuga as babies. Anyway, the KC drake is starting to get his *ahem* manly urges, and he seems to have succeeded in mounting her. He seemed to be rather gentle, not pulling out any feathers. I'm just...
The youngest chickies were out foraging for their third or fourth time when they decided to into some overgrowth from the woods behind our house. I tried to herd them back to a more open area, but they wouldn't budge. They'd discovered a rather large bush with little, round, red berries and were...
Thanks everyone!!! Would you believe they've all accumulated over just a little more than a year? They're all little sweeties too, in fact, as I sit in my room typing this, I have little Onyx perching on my shoulder!
Hello, I'm new and am not quite sure how to introduce myself...
How about I start with the birds, the site's sort of made for them, eh?
Our Beautiful Girls:
4 Rhode Island Reds:
Amber
Ruby
Emerald
Sapphire
3 Easter Egger Bantams
Onyx
Diamond
Amethyst...