Yes, I want to keep a trio of their solid black full sibs to use. So to start, pen one with the pair. A second pen with a pair of black siblings, possibly a pen with the 2nd cockerel and a black sibling, and a 4th pen with wheatens. And then swap roosters between them as needed. Any tips possibly?
That is the pair that I kept, he has just started mounting my frizzle CB and silver Birchen CB hens that are also in there with them. The furness pullet hasn't started laying yet.
That is the younger cockerel. I am going to keep him too.
The pullet I kept as a chick.
The other pullet I had...
I just found out about this color today, and I have a pair that I hatched out. They came from a pair of black cochin bantams that there solid blacks, solid whites and a few odd colored chicks that I decided to keep a pair of as they were cute. I got to talking with a guy on FB and hes working on...
Thank y'all for replying, I sold the other pullet, but of the one I kept, she is very wheaten looking. The older cockerel is very dark with some brown, and a younger cockerel is just as dark, but with more brown/red. I've been able to sex them on how they start feathering out.
First two are of...
Geese, as well as ducks and chickens are not vegetarians. They'll eat them if they want to, it's not going to hurt them and they'll probably love it if you haven't fed them any sort of insects or fish before. If you haven't, that in itself is them lacking a fully balanced diet.
I had posted some pics of a few cochin bantam chicks I had hatched out under a thread "What color are these cochin bantams?" However it was deleted for "hijacking" I believe and I never got to update.
So, here is my first pullet, about 2 months old My second pullet about a month old And then...
Bantam cochin, ameracaunas (ees and ameracauna crosses too), barred rock and silkie. I absolutely love my bantam cochins and silkies, they have the best personalities and make great mother's. My BR hens have so much personality and are first to run up to you and talk. My ameracaunas are my...
My black cochin bantam hen went broody on 3 cochin bantam eggs, 5 blue/green eggs and two other cross eggs. I set one of my incubators with 8 cochin bantam eggs, 7 blue/green eggs and 7 sex link green layers. So we'll see in a few weeks if I can grow out some more cochin bantams of that color...
He really does look like it, it took me forever to come across the blue red, although it could've just had been a mislabeled blue wheaten. What would be the expected color of him over the splash? I hatched three eggs from her, and they're feathering out blue looking. I know everyone else in the...
The hens can be considered EE, but I know for sure two of them are cochin and ameracauna cross. The splash hen is pure, shes just a little bareback, the boys like her. This is Blue, with the splash hen behind him, and the ameracauna/araucauna cross rooster, sterling in the back. Left to right...
My last post with pictures were of pure ameracauna chicks, they're all the same color, they're from my splash hen and my blue red rooster. Everyone else are crosses, I said that already and yes thats why they're a such a variety in color between them.