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I have a line of mostly Araucana with layers of leghorn & cream legbar infused in. The cream legbar heritage has produced some novel patterns and colors over the years and whenever I see red patterning I try to bring it out but historically they were always male, I finally got a hen last year...

So a couple of years back I set out to create a new breed of chicken that retained the intelligence and personality of an Isa Brown but pared back the laying output to about 90% so as to eliminate the host of reproductive disorders and cancers that doom so many of these birds to a short life and...

Owner says the last tenant paid $300 for this dubious looking character. I'm sceptical...

This query mainly relates to Mareks disease and how important vaccinations are to breeders/buyers of poultry. In my city monitoring poultry adverts it appears that large hatcheries that vaccinate are selling as many birds as they can hatch and breeders who don't are struggling to sell stock and...

I have a female from a CCL/hyline brown cross that I can't help but notice has the exact same dosage of the barring gene as a pure-bred CCL female if not the same coloring so my question is if bred back to a CCL rooster will the offspring be sexable? And would that mean that CCL and barred...

So I've just hatched 5 chicks that were from a cream crested legbar rooster over leghorn and hyline brown hens, I've ended up with 4 completely white leghorn chicks and one hyline that appears to be black and white striped and maybe a splash of red on the wings. I know the females in this hatch...

I have a wyandotte that's always excelled in finding the most inconvenient spot to sleep or lay eggs but she has really outdone herself this time, she's managed to create a secret nest in a ditch between a wall and a bank of loose sand that threatens to cave in every time I approach her. To make...

So according to https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/ a mareks vaccination is accomplished by injecting a chick with a harmless form of the virus (MDV-3) which allows the immune system to recognize and fight the deadly strain (MDV-1). If the bird...

Inspired by a conversation on another thread and finding a box of expired food I thought a competition for the most elaborate chicken dinner was in order. Please note this means a dinner prepared FOR your chickens not from them. Please post recipes and photos of the best meal you've ever...

Either an Ameraucana or a home-spun attempt at recreating one by crossing Araucana to OEG bantam which is how I presume the original was done since they come in the same colors as OEG apparently. I realise the legs are the wrong color which I why I suspect it was local recreation but definitely...

I recently got some 18 month old isa browns and was quite perturbed to find out that not only were their laying days effectively over but that they would be lucky to live past 3 and considered essentially worthless. And while I may be confusing the effects of hand-rearing with breed temperament...

It started some 30 years ago when my parents tasked me with taking care of the family flock, mainly australorp/leghorn hybids for eggs, a few silkies for chick-rearing duties and an OEG bantam rooster who I saw maybe twice a year as he would pop in to say hello to the hens before flying off into...