Last year when I hatched out my white orpington eggs one odd little fellow popped out. It was a white silkie orpington. Now he is not a cross he is standard size pink skined and has normal toes. At first I thought he was just shaggy after a wet spring and a dry summer but he molted again and...
We hatched this black orpington pullet from a batch of eggs I bought. I actually had 7 pullets and no cockreils but decided to keep only this one because she was bigger nicer looking. I was planning on breeding her to what I thought would be a pair or lavevder orpingtons to improve their size...
Is there any wayto ship him? I need a rooster I only hatched hen light and corination sussex from eggs I bought. I really need a corination rooster or a split light susssex. Maybe someone has one they can ship to UT.
:)Im not sure if they are a drop shipper or not, but I just got an order of call ducks from them. I ordered 15 they sent 17 and only 1 was DOA. I am very pleased with them. Everybody knows how difficult call ducks are to ship but they were well packed and even made it though a cold snap...
I had a similar experiance with Ideal and I must say my experiance was less than Ideal. I ordered 25 bantam chicks of which I have 5 left. Three were dead on arrival and most died within a few days. However some lived as long as a week before dieing. I think they were all just weak and inbred.
I was reading that if you put a red cock on white hens there is a sex link the first generation of chicks (hens are red and cock are whitish). They are different colored at hatching. I was wondering if buff is considered a red gene? If I put a buff orpington male on white orpington hens will...
I would suggest you buy some chicks from a hatchery for eggs. I got mine from darkeggsdaily.com when they ran a special on cuckoo marans for for $.15 a chick( can you beleve that). Marans are best lays their first year but decline as they start to go broody their second year and go more...