Have you already sold out of these eggs? I have a broody wanting to sit, and your birds look beautiful. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Christina
Dora'smom
I've got a lot of birds, and have only had two of them go broody. My birds are mostly hatchery stock, and that plays a part in it, as I understand that they breed broodiness out of their birds, in favor of more egg-laying tendency.
My reliable broody is a cuckoo marans, and her way of letting...
We started off with barred rocks, buff orpingtons, and rhode island reds, and they were all good choices, though the birds we had tended to pick on each other a lot. We added in some easter eggers after that, and really enjoyed their mild personalities, and the pretty eggs. Our easter eggers...
It looks a lot like my BR's eggs. Our Welsummer layed light for her breed, but still in the terra cotta range, and our BA lays a little darker than that. All of our EE's were late to start, so I think the winner is. . . The Barred Rock! Ours started laying earlier than all the other breeds, too.
I think he looks like a little roo. It's hard to tell when they're so young, but that comb development makes me think rooster. You will want to watch him for further comb and wattle development.
Bragg's is a common brand of ACV with the "mother" in it. This is what you really want if you would like to have the full benefit. When you look at the bottle, it should be murkey, and have sediment. If you use this, you would want to shake it first, to suspend the particles of sediment...
My birds have just recovered from a prolonged moult, and started laying again last week. We had about an 8 to 10 week drought. I wormed them during the early part of that time, before they were moulting heavily, so it all worked out, but jeesh! I thought I was never going to see another egg...
While I understand that you don't want them eating food with poop on top, I think it is the natural instinct to scratch in the feeder and throw food around. I see this with hatchery chicks, as well as those I have hatched with a broody hen. If I present the broody with a bowl or feeder full of...
Could be a combination of things. She may be going into a moult, but not seeing her, it is difficult to tell. A moult is very draining on a bird's system, and if it follows a month of broodiness, where she may not have been eating and drinking enough, it could be very difficult to handle...
Beautiful huge egg! In my family we refer to those as "Eees" because I once watched one of our hens lay one, and she did it standing up, and squaked "Eeeeeeeeeeee" afterwards. I'm sure it smarted.
Yes, they definitely can. A broody is a hen that wants to sit on eggs and hatch chicks. It is a hormonal thing, and can be difficult to break if you do not intend to give her eggs to sit on. If they have eggs to sit on, they sit, then mother the chicks until their bodies tell them it's time...
My experience is different from most of what I see posted here. I live in the city, but on a quarter acre, very near the edge of a canyon that is not populated. I hear the coyotes at night, and see raccoons during the evening and hawks during the day. I occasionally find feather rings in the...
Those birds (especially the big, red roo) are beautiful!
I had a hatch of mixed orpingtons (the lady I got the eggs from had only orpingtons---black, lavender, buff, etc.) on July 1. One of the chicks looks like a huge, fluffy robin, and another looks like it has yellow/red and blue barring on...
It seems to be a common practice in feed stores to call anything that might lay a colored (green or blue) egg an "Ameraucana" or "Aracauna". It is inaccurate, but what I have been told by local stores, is that the hatchery insists that the birds be labelled this way. I don't know if that is...
I haven't lost chickens, but I have lost eggs from under my broody when she was in a tractor with hardware cloth sides and a wide skirting on the ground around the tractor. I did find where something tunneled underneath the skirting, so I assume that young birds would not be safe, either.
As...
We decided on pellets before we got our first girls, and have never looked back. The only exception is that we put pine shavings in the nest boxes, and in the broody area. The pellets break down so quickly, and smell good for a long time. I use a little bit of DE here and there if it seems...
Will chickens eat roaches? I don't have any here, but I do have box alder bugs by the million at certain times of year and my girls turn their little beaks up at them. Picky eaters, one and all.
I have had one bird lay something that looked somewhat like your picture. She was fine, and went on laying for some time after, but eventually reproductive issues got her. I don't know that that is always the case, but I would make sure they are getting enough calcium in their diets, and keep...