Gold Laced Wyandotte Roo x EE - 13 chicks (only 4 in the photo to show general colors, I believe all will be light green olive egger hens/roos)
Gold Laced Wyandotte Roo x the following - Dominique, Welsummer, Delaware - 13
Gold Laced Wyandotte Roo x Gold Laced Wyandotte hen - 3
Hatching eggs can certainly teach us about struggling for life.
I had 28 of 29 eggs hatch on day 21. Egg 29 was pipped but not making progress. I decided to give it day 22 to hatch.
I left home for a few hours and came back to an unhatched chick, with no further progress on the pipped area.
I...
Has anyone done this and what color of eggs? light green? (EE's all lay blue eggs and I am fairly certain are Auracana x Ameraucana as some previous chicks are tailless)
This little one was pecked in the eye by a 'littermate'. I discovered the injury when he was about 3 days old, mainly because he was off by himself and acting stressed. I gave him a big drink of water, very thirsty chick, and tried to make sense of the eye injury.
I separated him for a couple...
I wanted to share my review of the Matticoopx Incubator here, because I know there are folks out there looking for a moderately priced incubator. At $125, this incubator is affordable, at least to give a try.
I have had the 'big name' incubator, and also lower end incubators...
Looking at adding more Welsummers to my flock. My only hen lays this egg. Any thoughts as to overall quality? I will try to get a photo of the hen tomorrow.
I will be looking for some hatching eggs from excellent quality Welsummers in late January 2024. Please message me a price and photos of your birds. Thank you!
Three weeks ago I posted photos of the wings of wyandotte chicks.... I guessed two pullets and 4 cockerels, based on the huge difference in feather growth.
I put a leg band on one of the pullets to keep track of her.
Today I took photos of each. 5 gold laced and one 'mismatch' silver laced...
Put a good amount of hay in the chicken coop a few weeks ago. The scratch I have been throwing in there has been converted to greens for them 😂 pulled the hay back and voila!
A couple years ago I read (in multiple places) that when chicks are about 5 days old you can determine sex by wing structure... So, here are 6, 5 day old Wyandottes. I predict the first two are pullets (more developed flight feathers) and the last 4 are cockerels -- anyone have exp with this...
Got these chicks last week as part of the 'hen rainbow asst' -- 18 chicks, some are the same breed....help a gal out? pretty sure numbers 2, 4, and 8 are easter eggers. Not sure about the others. There is one not pictured that I am fairly certain is a white leghorn. Not sure about the one with...
About a month ago I picked up some pigeons off CL to use for training my bird dogs. 5 are white and 2 are white/splash colored...I have noticed one of the white ones has some feathers 'poking' out along his wings/back.... which makes me think frillback, of course... My question is, if a pigeon...
I have a brinsea incubator which has functioned perfectly for several 'hatches'. I have had chukar, duck, and chicken eggs mailed to me - all took about 5-6 days in transit.
First was 75 chukar, which I got 60% hatch rate, then 12 duck eggs, also 60% hatch rate... Then 3 different 'batches' of...
I had 2 brahma mix hens, one brahma mix roo, 3 deathlayer hens, 2 deathlayer roos, an 12 chukar. All hatched by me an never around other birds. There are no other chicken flocks within a mile, that I am aware of... The brahma roo has been dispatched in the last month...
About a month ago one of...
Hi all,
It has been a while since I had birds - now have 8 chickens (4 roo's and 4 hens, pretty sure). They are about 3.5 months old now. Started with 10 (that we hatched in an incubator) - just farmyard chickens from local eggs to get a handle on inubating eggs (it is a brinsea, so pretty...