I have this beautiful peach female. No idea which breeding pen she came from - I tend to put eggs from all the pens in the incubator at the same time. She is currently with a Rossetta male.
Would you recommend breeding to a wild male to get more peach colours? If I can breed more - is it okay to...
It all started when my head lady Violet went broody. I put her in a wire cage to bring her out of it.
One of the others (Rose) decided to sleep ontop of their apex coop roof to be next to her. The coop isn't very high and the raised cage sits level to the roof. The next night another joined her...
Background - I hatched a beautiful male recently and had no females for him. So I sold one of my other males and gave him the girls. I moved them all a different pen. This was yesterday - today I found him badly beaten up. His eyes are also swollen shut and weeping slightly - not sure if they...
Background; Brought 4 new Pekins recently. As you do - I quarantined them, in a dog crate in my garden room and sectioned off a bit of a run for them. All went well and so it was time to introduce them to the others.
To do this I sectioned off the run, so they would be able to see each other...
I am new to hatching babies and have no idea what my babies will be - other than the Pharaoh. I have one completely yellow. one yellow with stripes and one with different shades of silver - pictures below.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
New in the sense that I have just started hatching quail - my silkies failed :(. brought from e-bay, the guy sent them a week apart - lied about not sending them all together. Most of the eggs were infertile and they were actually...