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Hello, Olivia rose! Welcome! Dave C, we hatched out Welsummers, Crested Cream Legbars, Plymouth Barred Rocks, French Copper Marans, French Wheaten Marans, Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, and Brahmas. We're trying to build up our breeding stock with better quality birds. It's been work, but so...

Ok, so firstly, let me say "hiya" to the newcomers! Secondly, sorry I haven't been on in a while, but with that huge hatch we did I've been a very busy lady lol. Out of the original 250 eggs, we hatched out a total of 173, we've lost a few since then for various reasons but the majority of them...

I absolutely love my chickens! It is so special to be able to watch a mama and her chicks.

Went out to check on my broody mama and saw this!

Hiya! Welcome to BYC! I know exactly what you mean about restraint lol. I keep wanting to check on our new mama every fifteen minutes lol! She should start hatching tomorrow so now I'm really getting impatient! We originally were just trying to break her of brooding but she wouldn't have it, so...

My husband just looked at these and said they look like a blue laced red but with a double copy of the blue gene?

Whatever they are, they're beautiful. Is this a new lacing project?

They definitely look like a red splash but the actual classification would depend on how you got them? If they :)were a partridge based brahma, then they would be classed as a red splash. Mind you, I'm no expert at all, just going on what we've learned so far from other breeders here in the UK...

I found this on a popular uk website BM, this really cleared things up for us when we started on brahmas. Basically, what is known as Lemon Pyle/Red Pyle Brahmas are not, in fact, pyles at all. They are a splash. "In Brahmas in the UK, the following notation applies:- Gold Brahmas are eb/eb...

We have Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, Plymouth Barred Rocks, French Copper Marans, French Wheaten Marans, Welsummers, Cream Legbars, Brahmas, and a few Black Rock hybrids. My favourites are my Brahmas and my Marans. The Brahmas are really friendly and laid back. I don't really have any "mean"...

Hiya! Welcome to the group! I'm not far from you, near to Chester.

That's the same one we had, well still have, but when the hubby decided to do this huge hatch he ordered the new incubator. I love that little one, always worked great!

This is our new incubator, it's a Brinsea 380. Fingers crossed we get some nice pullets! This is the little broody mama.

I'm sorry you've had such a rough year with the vets and all! I hope your broodies work out well! I have one that ids sitting on ten eggs atm, she's actually my nephews chicken but when she wouldn't come out of her brooding we brought her here and gave her some eggs to sit on. Totally new...

We're sitting on a huge hatch atm, 275 eggs in the incubator! The idea was to have Pol hens for springtime. We've got some nice show quality lines in this time as well as a few new breeds just for my interest lol. We're hoping to get a dozen hens of each breed out of this lot. The hubby is...

That's great! You should never rinse eggs until you are ready to use them. Rinsing them destroys the natural anti-bacterial coating and can actually cause you to get sick. If they are really messy, I lightly wipe them with a dry paper towel.

You're very welcome!

With Brahmas, it's very difficult to tell until they get much older.

I find first eggs can range from normal but small to really strange or malformed. I'd give it a few days, if she doesn't start laying normally you might give her some oyster shell grit to help.

Congratulations! Prepare to fall in love!