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First crossing: A. Cuckoo Dorking rooster with Red Dorking hens. Second crossing: B. New Red roosters with A( Cuckoo/red cross) hens Happening now. Pen 1: Third Crossing. C.1 Best of B roosters, (Cuckoo with red leaking) to Best of B (red) hens:. Hatching now, so far one chipmunk and...

I have 5 week old chicks in their own pen in the coop, and I have 2 week old chicks of the same breed in the house. Is it safe to put the 2 week olds out with the older ones? they do have a heat lamp in the coop because is still gets below freezing here in Iowa. The older ones just seem a lot...

A Watched Hatch never Pips! LOL! Does anyone ever get used to waiting for hatches! 3 weeks fly by otherwise, unless I have a hatch! This is probably my 10th hatch and I am still excited and impatient!

I have obtained half of my flock from, Sand Hill Preservation center, who state on their website “We are genetic preservationists that are in this for the genetic diversity of this planet we all call home. Our primary mission is the preservation of our genetic resources.” I have found they are...

I have obtained half of my flock from, Sand Hill Preservation center, who state on their website “We are genetic preservationists that are in this for the genetic diversity of this planet we all call home. Our primary mission is the preservation of our genetic resources.” I have found they are...

Looking to add some Red Dorkings from another line to my breeding program! I live in east central Iowa. I would prefer a rose comb red, but type is more important than comb. Thanks

I have a broody with 6 chicks about 4 weeks old...is it safe to put it with the flock...if not what age, or do you wait until the chicks are almost full size? I have also heard that broodies sometimes wean their chicks..how can they do that if they are stuck in the same pen.or should I just...

Would like another line of Rose comb Red Dorkings to add to my small flock!!!

I have eggs in my incubator from by Cuckoo Dorking single comb rooster, over my Rose Comb Red Dorking females. What is my next step to work on creole. I used a chicken calculator that said that most of these eggs would be cuckoo. Any experts? Also, I plan on only breeding for rose combs.

Thanks again to Mary and Daron for filling my inci with my new prized flock of Icelandics! My lone rooster has to wait a while for his harem...only 20 days and 23 hours...........................................................................

These two roos are from a fall special from Sand Hill Conservation center. We moved right after we got them and I lost the list of breeds but they don't seem to match anything in the catalogue.

What do you think? Blue: Black:

I have a guineas that are 24 hours, 12 hours and 1 hour old, with one pipped egg, and two not doing anything yet. I am afraid to open the incubator until they are all hatched. How long will they be ok????

I have a chick that hatched a day later than the others. It throws its head back and lands on its back. It kicks out and is strong, but just doesnt stand right. I put it in a sling in a tall thin container so it has to rest on its feet in a normal position. I am hoping if I try this for a...

Does anyone have pictures of Cuckoo Dorking Chicks? I just got some from Sand Hill Preservation center and they all look the same to me, I though you would be able to tell the difference in sexes like you can my Red Dorkings! They are adorable, and the beginning of my Dorking Creole project!

My 9 month old Buckeye roo has been mating vigorously two of my hens. I checked some of the eggs and they had a faint bullseye. When incubated, they never developed. ( the other eggs by my other 9 month old Dorking, and my eggs from a breeder are doing well in the incubator). Is he...

I set 26 eggs on the 8th, 10 Ameraucanas from the mail, 8 pure Rose comb red dorkings I bred, and 8 eggs from my Buckeye roo crossed with a wyanndotte and chantecler hens. They all showed the spider developing except those by the Buckeye roo. I checked the eggs laid by these hens both...

So excited! I am setting my own home raised Red rose comb dorkings, along with some blue Ameraucana hatching eggs from a breeder, and finishing off with some of my own interesting crosses including Buckeye/buff chantecler, and Buckeye/silver penciled wyandotte.(my buckeye pullet is not old...

First of all I am avoiding any large single combs, as we get frigid winters. My best layers of jumbo eggs are my black copper marans. I crossed a BCM with my red dorking rose comb roo and got the BCM coloring and body type, with the dorking rose comb and 5 toes. She is too young to lay...

Here is my situation. I had all my hens and two roos together all winter. So on the 29th of December, I took the roos out. On the 4th of January I put the correct roos with the hens I wanted to breed with. So with my calculations the eggs can be fertile for up to 10days from a breeding. So...