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Yes this! Sorry I worded my previous statement not very clearly by using the word "formation". Yes, gender is determined by the hen while the egg is being formed. In the study I read, temperature didn't change gender, but showed that male embryos might develop differently than females, depending...

I'm getting a dozen eggs shipped to me this week. This will be my 3rd time hatching shipped chicken eggs. The last 2 times I ended up with a decent hatch rate for shipped eggs, but almost ALL males, both times. I used a different incubator each time. I read there might be some link to heat and...

I see them for sale a lot but can't seem to find an agreeing general consensus on what these birds even are. I've seen sources say it's a breed of its own completely separate from Sermas, some say it's just another name for Serama, some say it's just a name given to bantams from Puerto Rico no...

It seems our hawks around here have bigger fish to fry. The only flying predator I've seen go after rodents are peregrine falcons which are always welcomed. They're too small to bother our chickens anyways. The large hawks are always after my chickens, rabbits, squirrels or other birds. In the...

I've been diving into the genetics of colors recently. I think I correctly grasp the concept of complete and incomplete dominant genes. For example, blue is a co-dom and can be shown as Bb and when the two small bb's are shown it will create a totally new look aka the splash. Complete doms are...

Last night I found my hen sitting by the coop. When I went to pick her up she tried scurrying away but only stumbled a step or two and stopped. Worried at this extremely odd movement, I thought something may have happened to her leg. Physically she seemed fine, didn't feel egg bound and even...

Thanks guys. I have known about the migratory bird protection. I don't plan on killing these guys, but it did give me a mini heart attack seeing that hawk right next to them. I really just want to deter them. I think tree planting is in my future. More cover in their free range area would be...

I have a coop and run but free range my chickens during the day. Earlier this week I found a hawk sitting on the fence line next to the coop all the chickens ran into except one. After chasing it away like a crazy person, I put the last girl in and closed the coop. They haven't been free ranged...