PETA euthanizes more animals than they adopt out, perfectly fine animals that can be rehomed. PETA believes *no animal* should be tethered by human connection, as any relationship with an animal is exploitative.
They're a terrible organization at the heart of it.
These are her siblings. The blue barred guy looks JUST like his grandpa. His mom is the OE*Brahma cross - she creates sex linked males for me since she hides the Barring gene.
One of my olive egger mixes is half brahma. Her mom is the splash brahma in the pen, but her dad was the multiple generations in olive egger mix. His legs were sparsely feathered, and even her mom doesn't have super dense feathering on her feet like the buffs have.
The olive egger mix daughter...
I forgot one - a buff olive Egger mix. Her mom was buff orpington and her dad was a generations deep olive egger. She has passed away since I hatched these guys.
I bred a Blue Copper Marans to my flock. I know her mom is one of my pea combed hens, and that leaves me a couple of options;
Buff Brahma
Splash Oliver Egger mixes (2 different hens)
Splash Brahma
Green Queen mix
Lavender Ameraucana
A blue/red Easter Egger (idk how to describe her other than...
I have the premier 1 poultry netting. The ducks learned as ducklings to stay out of it. Their baby down had them get shocked a few times, but otherwise after that they stay away from it. The chickens touch it a few times, sometimes just on accident (maybe more if they're not the brightest of the...
Definitely a Dominique.
Dominique
Barred Rock
Their Barring is fairly identical (to me) - they feather slow and get crisp barred markings. Their combs are very different, however. Doms have Rose combs and Barred Rocks have Straight combs
Some hens are NOT meant to be moms despite their hormones telling them otherwise (just like with people).
Some hens are excellent moms and others sit the whole 21 days before committing infanticide on every single hatchling they hatch. A neighbor had a bantam hen who would sit like a champ...
Hello again!! Sorry to pester but I was looking at a teenager grow out (the same blue chick above actually) and was wondering if I'm seeing Barring in their gold hackles. If it *is* Barring, would BSF2 be his mother? The Blue Copper Marans is still dad.
Thank you for getting back to me!! I was thinking Brahma too but the chicken calculator thing is throwing me for a loop. This color combo doesn't show up at all but I guess there's lots of variables and what's hidden underneath everything, or what lineage made the bird before it.
I didn't...