I am looking for a bantam cock or cockerel that I can work on bonding with. Must be friendly at least to a point, yet not completely aloof, I need him to be a protector of the girls, but I want him to be human tolerant. I am not looking to break the bank. I am just outside of Mint Hill area in...
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Yes, especially my leghorn eggs. Her eggs were huge. My EE are fairly small in size compared to my other girls and a couple of them lay some really huge eggs. I've had a few with some blood smearing on them too. I just make sure they get what they need in protein etc, and they always...
I've had it happen with a couple of my girls. Ghost was only 4mos when she laid her first egg. My youngest ones have all started laying just before 5mos except for one of them who still hasn't laid yet (she's almost 6mos now).
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Yea, it will likely always be an olive/green color, but they may lighten a little over time. The color itself doesn't change. That's been my experience with all of my breeds I have.
Now I have a pink, blue, blue green, olive, and a green. One of mine still isn't laying. I'm hoping for another blue egg. The blue sure is pretty!! They all are, but I really love the blue one because it's also fairly large in size!!
I'm so sorry you've dealt with such losses :( I can't even imagine. :( All of mine come from places that supposedly vaccinate, but I worry about things happening. I've heard that even though vaccinated sometimes they can still get sick (but it's highly unlikely). I'm NOT saying the person...
I would leave them alone for now. If they are going to hatch they should fairly soon. I wouldn't mess with anything at the moment. It's possible they aren't alive anymore, it's possible they are. I'd just observe for now.
Mine were REALLY flighty when they were younger, but they've calmed as they've gotten older. My youngest ones flock to me now every time I go out there, but my cock doesn't like that so he tries to chase them off.
He'd be a cull here. There's no excuse for attack to a child. It will only get worse when he gets spurs. I had someone intentionally provoke my cock, and he got a spur to the shin for it. Granted, it was the person's fault, and he's been warned not to agitate the cock, but he did it anyways. In...
It's normal for some feather loss. What you want to keep an eye on is missing patches of them, excessive itching, and things like that. I have been worried about things like that because I see people talking about infestations on their chickens (mites, chicken lice, etc). I put food grade...
Oddly enough, he fell right back into his place (thankful for that though). The girls were so lost without him, and so happy to see him when he returned that they all flocked around him. They spent the week he was inside lost and trying to flock around me. They have all grown up with him except...
Also, I forgot to mention. It can be a "crap shoot" with EE, You can end up with a blue, green, brown, white, pink, or other off color. It doesn't guarantee they'll lay a pretty blue, or even a pretty green like one of my girls does. Thankfully, all of mine lay beautiful eggs, but it's not...
Also, EE doesn't even necessarily mean it was bred with a pure ameraucana parent. It means one parent has a blue egg laying gene, sometimes both, but not necessarily pure ameraucana parents.
She's an EE. EE can have grey, black, green, yellow, or even whitish color legs. What makes her an EE is the fact that she doesn't meet breed standard for coloring. I have EE and I have an OE. I get beautiful eggs out of all of them. I get a light blue, a bluish green, a green with white...
This is a newer behavior. I had never seen it before from Oreo. He always would just shake his leg and kind of charge sideways toward the girls to get them to move. He was injured and inside for almost a week. I brought him out once he was healed. That night I had a predator attack that killed...
Your BO in question is definitely a cockerel. I have a BO cock. I had a BO pullet, but I sold her to a friend of mine along with my 2 cuckoo cochins. His size was a little larger than hers, and his comb and wattles started pinking way before hers. His legs weren't THAT much thicker, but they...
Also, I already disposed of her before I thought about doing anything with her. There really wasn't much left. I don't have a trap or know how to make one. I need to figure out how without much cost. I have a dog that was out. I think the predator struck while I was out with my son during the...
I have wire strung across the top (electric fence wire but not hooked up to box) to keep birds of prey out of it. I knew it wasn't opossum and don't believe it was raccoon either. We believe it was mink or weasel based on entry point too. I didn't know until after this happened, but my son's...
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Charity I am so sorry I failed to protect you. You were so young and had several years ahead of you.
I am livid. When I built my coop and run I did the best I could to make sure the chickens were protected from predators. Something got into the...