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Congrats on it being a girl. Yeah they are pretty poor layers I usually get an egg every other day. My 2 blue females seem to lay every day in a secret nest and sometimes in the coop but my black and splash lay every other day. Do you have any pis of the egg? I would like to see them.

Do you have a pic of her? The cause could be that she's broody with babies because my silkie does that with chicks I let her hatch. My experience with chickens is that hens don't attack you but some roosters do attack all the time. There's not really any way to stop the behavior unless you want...

I think sumatras are just harder to sex than most breeds until their older. Blue sumatras are alittle easier because the boys come in a solid color and most of the girls have lacing on their feathers. I think splash wold be the harder color to sex but also black. I think another way to do it to...

How many sumatra's do you have and do you breed them? I love the breed and only have a breeding trio of blue,black and splash. Do you sometimes sell hatching eggs or chicks?

It is alittle hard to tell even at that age because she doesn't have all of her tail feathers. Even the way the tail is now I think girl because the saddle feathers are rounded and not straight. Have you seen my pics of my splash Sumatra hen? I don't think I have any of her at that age so you...

Those are totally girl noises. I have 4 hens and 4 roosters and only the girls make those noises. I have my main breeding rooster Whiney and 3 extra boys 2 black and 1 blue. I could be wrong but those noises that were being made comes from all 4 of my hens. We'll just have to wait and see. Do...

I may be wrong too and it's a rooster but my splash hen Melon who I put pics up of. When she was young she looked almost identical to birdie at that age that I was almost convinced rooster but then turned out to be a hen. Do you still breed Sumatras?

Yeah I definately wouldn't want to go against the HOA if I lived next door to a board member about the rooster but I would do the chickens though. The very first time I got a Sumatra chick was 1.25 a chick but the last couple years they been around the 3.69 to 3.99 a chick. I would love to have...

Bummer a rooster. Can you have roosters where your at? I've been wanting to get a silkie rooster because I have 2 silkie girls. I love the very first crows because some do sound down right pathetic but cute at the same time :lau. I really wanna get some Salmon Favorolles. I did see them one...

I totally agree on most people not knowing the appeal until you have them. Alot of places and city ordinances are changing to allow people to have at least 6 birds but most still dont allow roosters. I really like birds that talk to me and that was also another appeal to the Sumatra breed for me...

I was looking at their website and don't see anything about contract with purchase. I know there is the poult ordering policy but tells you like minimum number of purchase. Have you actually called them and talked to them? Just wondering. It also looks like it's just the recessive ones and not...

For awhile I never really understood the appeal to having a bird as a pet like the parakeets and other small birds until I got chickens 6 years ago. Now I don't think I won't ever not have chickens around. I see how people say their like their own version of therapy. My sumatras sometimes talk...

They probably do bully each other quite a bit to establish a hierarchy. I have 3 true amreacauna and multiple easter eggers and 1 home grown olive egger and 1 olive egger I bought at the flock swap and a small flock of bantams and they all sleep in one coop. Birdie just really like those sun...

Do you have them in a shady area or do they get sun in their coop? More than likely she's just bullying the silkies over the food too. Sumatras retain a lot of their wild instincts compared to other chickens and another name for them is Sumatran Pheasant. Yes some people like to cross Sumatra...

It's always just one Sumatra who wants to be difficult and not sleep in the coop with everyone else. I definitely wouldn't put it past her if she decided to sleep in the trees. Yeah It sucks when you get that one person who doesn't like the crowing of roosters at 3 or 4 in the morning and wants...

Yeah I would love to try a hatchery but I know about the minimum which stops me most of the time. This spring I thought about trying Ideal hatchery because they only have a 25 dollar minimum and you can mix and match breeds. The predators around here usually pick up in winter and spring but more...

That's chickens for ya though.:lol: When I bought my first Sumatra I knew nothing about them either. My first Sumatra was Cobalt and she was listed as a blue Sumatra but ended up being black. After her I fell in love with the breed and have always bought new Sumatras for my flock. It took me...

It's very easy for a hawk to get a bantam chicken. Yeah they're definitely coming from the national forest. I have at most one maybe 2 hawks come around but during spring it's usually 3 or 4 and my guess is parents and babies learning to fly. You could try bigger breeds like Langshans and...

No I didn't get them from breeders. I got them from a local feed store. I would love to one day buy show quality/breeder quality birds but their a little bit more than my budget can handle at the moment. My whole flock came from hatcheries that the feed store uses. I have a few birds that I...

This is my breeding blue Sumatra rooster. The second pic isn' t very good. Whiney Whinerton. This is my black Sumatra Hen. Nevermore