I have a 6 year old pekin bantam who long ago already has retired and isn’t laying and we want to put her into our bantam flock which has an active rooster.
First issue is she is about 80% blind so she manages to get around her space and find food and water just fine but we are concerned that a...
We ended up half splitting them. The sebrights cause they fiesty and the bug chickens cant catch them so they stayed with the larger flock but the pekins have their own mini flock.
We had fhe same thing with the top hen after returning from hatching babies… shes climbing quickly though. Itll...
Thanks for the response. I was more just curious about opinions and what other people think and do. More information is always better. I had my own plan before this was posted I just wanted to know what other people had experienced.
I have some bantams integrated with my main flock and the...
I have a mixed breed flock with a wide variety of breeds including orpingtons, wyandottes, easter eggers, leghorns, light sussex, marans etc and I have some pekin and polish bantams and soon to have sebrights too…
Whats your opinion on having a full size fowl with bantams in one flock or a...
Thats what I was thinking. There are definitely factors that fit in both breeds but nothing that entirely points to one or the other. The mixed breed is an option.
Ive never seen a sussex with a speckled wing or a venda with a completely white body…
Hi everyone.
I’m kimmi aka the loony chicken lady
Ive been a backyard chicken keeper for about a year now. Started out with 5 village chickens which wandered in and decided they wanted to live with us so we built them a house. Have about 30 in the flock now with a mix of breeds: orpingtons...
Hi all,
I recently got 2 chicks from a breeder which were meant to be light sussex chicks (in a bunch of other breeds) and as the feathering started to come through (they are currently 4 weeks) on the wings the one looks perfect but the other looks mottled which isnt very typical of a light...