My Birchens started laying! They are the eggs on far left of the picture, 2nd from top on left and bottom of 2nd row, I think they are a very nice color.
I am thinking he will move in with my OE and EE's... Just need to cross my fingers like you and hope a nice one hatches out of these eggs... I have been excited ever since I ordered them. I guess I can concentrate on my AM's for now... kept a very nice Black cockerel out of my last batch. I...
Hoping the same. So you do not think he is a lost cause? Worse case scenario is he will go into my layer pen, and I have my OE's and EE's in there... may be a nice addition towards OE's as he came from a very dark egg.
I have some nice pullets, but this was my best hope for a roo, the others I culled earlier do to more gold bleed through. I do have some eggs on the way soon... :-) Hopefully I can get a very nice Cockerel out of them.
You might end up with the chicken on the right here, hatched from eggs I purchased that were supposed to be wheatens... I culled them out pretty quickly
I am looking for some Birchens, I had bought eggs several months ago and had a good hatch. However, the 4 cockerels that I hatched, all have a lot of copperish bleed through on the backs. The pullets look nice but do not want to breed with the Cockerel that has this much copper. Also very...
I gave all but 1 away, and will take pictures of her soon and post. She is very pretty, dark red, with copper hackle feathers and the wheaten black on the tail. She has a very pleasan disposition like my RIR's, I am very impressed with her and she lays a nice dark egg. .