Definitely not a Speckled Sussex. Looks like some chicks i got from Jenks Hatchery in Oregon. They were calling them Silver Laced Sussex. Though the tail looks slightly different.
Great advice above. How Aart does it is exactly how i do it. I have one girl that it takes about 7 days to break her and the others only 2 or 3. Just make sure enough air is getting through underneath to cool down her underside.
Not really. In my experience they get a little less aggressive about it but they always seem to want to mate. It is their life purpose to mate as often as possible. They will need to be separated their entire lives unless you can bring your ratios up to 4:1 (5:1 is better) or remove most of the...
Hormones are probably settling for the year as mating season winds down. You'll likely have the same issue with over-mating next season. If your not wanting to rehome any then it would probably be best just to have 2 separate flocks. An all male one and either an all girl one or one that...
If they haven't already started laying and the days are getting shorter i wouldn't be all that surprised if you don't see your first eggs until next year. I personally just let nature take its course. They'll lay when their little bodies are ready.
I'm going to go with male. Based on what you've written i thought male and then you said they still have their baby voices. In my experience males take far longer than females. All females I've raised have gotten their voices between 3 and 8 weeks and the males have been closer to 12.
Just my...
So tell me if I'm understanding this correctly, a Speckled Sussex Roo doesn't carry dominant genes as far as coloring? Or is it just that the breeds of hens i have are more dominant?
Are hens the ones that carry the color genes?
Curiosity peaked more lol
I have some cream leg bar crosses (no idea what they are crossed with though, they are cream with black leakage around neck and black tail feathers. Any idea what this might look like with the Speckled Sussex rooster?
Thankyou for that and for the education. As i said just curious i've never allowed a broody to hatch or hatched any of our own.
So the barred rock babies should be sexable at hatch? Neat!
I've always bred Pekin ducks so i know yellow chicks, white adults. But never chickens so ...
My friend has asked me to hatch her out some chicks and I'm curious as to what they'll look like as hatchlings and also as adults. My Rooster is a Speckled Sussex. The hens would be BCM, RIR, PBR or...
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Yes chicken math is real and people don't understand ... until they do. My boyfriend has been telling me for a year that i don't need anymore chickens (basically every time i came home with more he'd say it). But in a odd twist i'm now having to tell him that we're at capacity.
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