This is precisely why I got the breed. All my other breeds are dual purpose, and horrible at paying their rent(eggs). Now Hopefully I hatch a BL rooster. Next Saturday is hatch day.
RIR, Barred Rock, Buckeye, Silkie EE, EE, Welsummer, Brown Leghorn, White Leghorn or Lavender Orpington. I lost my SF roo and just looking for ideas on who to put them with. They are currently in with my RIR.
This is my duck hut I built by myself since the hubby is always working. It's a repurposed swimming pool frame, repurposed skids, recycled metal roofing we got for free 😃 all I've had to buy so far is the screws, sheeting screws, hinges and L brackets to sturdy the door. The large logs on the...
So I'm super excited. My Welsummer has laid her first egg finally. I bought 5 hens and 5 roos in April and I'm down to the single pair. So the question is does this look fertile to you. It looks like the "start" of a bullseye to me?
I just came across this post. I just wanted to share my experience with the whole medicated chick feed/layer feed. I start all chicks with a big bag of medicated chick feed once that is gone they switch to layer crumbles or pellets depending on what I have available. (Feed store usually only has...
You must be a cat person Lol. I have three month old pups that know what they are doing wrong. Yet I have a two year old cat that gets removed from the table daily.
I breed poultry and waterfowl. I have never had issues with Drakes being aggressively. Unless Cayugas or Pekins. Both breeds I...
I understand that this is an ancient post. But from everything I have researched about ducks. The original mallard is basically the god duck of all domestic ducks. I have seen a lot of information that they are a smaller duck not quite as small as calls or wood ducks but pretty close. Alot of...
I'm working on building my Wyandotte Flock and possibly get buckeye chickens in the future. I currently have sapphire gems, black diamonds, GL & BLR Wyandottes. I don't mind other chicken breeds and when I moved here and bought the house it came with a half dozen chickens mixed flock. My mixed...