This little one was given to me when I was looking for a couple of barnyard mixes for a broody to adopt. The woman told me it was an Aracauna/Welsummer cross. I assume she actually had an Easter Egger (not an Aracauna). Well, this little one is super slow feathering compared to the other two...
I'm in North Central Mass, and I'm looking for some hatching eggs. Maybe only 2? I have two broody sister hens who will not give up. I don't need anymore chickens, but I'm thinking hatching some eggs will be the only thing to break them. Anyone nearby have some I could buy? I'd prefer olive...
Yay! My babies are starting to hatch! They are Icelandic babies with a broody Buff Orpington There are six, so far with five more to come! Now I'm so anxious to see what they look like as they grow! They already have beautiful colors
Good afternoon fellow chicken lovers! I have 11 Icelandic eggs on day 14 under a good, broody, Buff Orpington mama These will be my first of this breed and I am very excited about them!
I'm looking for sexing tips. Are they similar to other breeds...for example, slow feathering are males? Or...
It's tricky, because the "rules" are there because they are *almost* always right. We can't know exactly what's happening with their genetics, just what is likely to happen! Good luck!!!
Yeah! She's just a bit of an anomaly! Her dad has that same comb. My husband says it looks like Worf from Star Trek
I was told dad hatched from a blue egg, and I know she hatched from a a mint green egg, so I was surprised we still got hers as a pale brown. I knew it could happen, but I was...
I just wanted to give an update on my babies! Scarlet laid hey first egg yesterday! She had EVERY sign that we expect to see in a young EE cockerel. Except that she always 'looked' like a pullet...BUT early on she had a wide, pinking comb, and red patches on her silver wings. Every thing I read...
Thanks, again junebuggena! Do you say this because of Scarlet's wide comb? That has definitely been throwing me! It just isn't even pink yet, which is also throwing me...
Okay! Here are my four babies...almost nine weeks now. I posted about them before. They all have the same daddy, a white and black EE. The two on the right have the same EE mom. The white one on the left was hatched from a SLW hen, and the white cockerel in the middle (Fabio) came from a Golden...
Thanks! I guess I'll just keep watching! The other roosters I raised were very red faced and obvious at four weeks. I'm so confused by these two Hopefully I'll know sooner than when egg laying starts in the spring!
I figured I'd post some pics so you can see what I'm talking about.
Ava on the left, Fabio (obvious cockerel) on the right.
Ava...
Sophia (obvious pullet), Fabio, Scarlet...
Sophia (pullet)...
Scarlet...
I have some six week old babies. Two are colored and patterned to suggest they are boys, but their combs are completely yellow. Another one has a very pink comb, and has always been an obvious boy. What age would you accept the comb as the definitive sign?
Thanks for all the great info! I'm anxious to know what my babies are...boy or girl They all had the same black and white easter egger daddy. He had a pink comb and pathetic first crow at 4 weeks!
My babies are 5 weeks. This little guy is Fabio. He has been obvious since hatch. His mama is a...
Ahhh! Okay! So, are the ones with both EE parents considered EEs, or we won't know until they lay, also? My EE hen, the mom, lays a mint green egg, so I'm assuming the two babies that are hers should get that gene? I was told the dad hatched from a 'mostly blue' egg.
I suppose then, that sexing...
I have a silly question...if you breed and easter egger rooster with any hen, are the babies considered easter eggers? Or just a barnyard mix? I hatched four babies from my EE roo. The moms were a golden comet, SLW, and two from my EE hen.
They will be five weeks this weekend, and I'm trying to...
Now that we are having some winter weather, it has me wondering...is there ever a time that you don't let the chickens out of the coop? Is there weather that causes you to keep the door closed? What weather (if anything) would cause you to bring them into a safer, warmer place?
My coop has no...
Do you still have him? I have wanted one! I have some SF hens and I've always thought that if I was going to get a rooster (intentionally ), I would like it to be one of these guys!