Is anyone planning to cross a french copper with a blue this year? We had a French copper / blue cross last year and unfortunately it was killed by a raccoon who is now in the afterlife. We really want to get another. She was the light slate blue color with a rust colored collar.
So, we have 10 chickens. One of them is a two year old Ameracauna that lays Large grennish blue eggs. The chicken herself is only about 5 pounds. Then there is a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte which is about 8 pounds. She is about a year old and lays eggs that are so small, you would think they...
The chickens were all full grown standards. I lost an Ameracauna, a giant blue splash maran that weighed 9 pounds, a black Orpington, two Cochins, a jersey giant and a very well loved tolbunt polish that my little 3 year old girl goes out to say hello to every morning. No pics of the coop but...
I have lost over half my flock in the last two weeks to something. I have covered the run. ran chicken wire along the bottom two feet of the run and buried a foot of it. There are no holes or areas which have been dug out. I am at wits end here. I have raised birds for many years in the past...
I have one that looks identical to her. I have been told she is a splash and a blue. Would like to know as well. She is a "1 a day" layer. She is also 9 pounds!!!
All the Tolbunt Polish birds i have seen definitely do not have that much black on them. I was thinking she was a mix or something. I see a lot of black with white crests, but this one also has the brown mixed in faintly. She is getting some iridescence in her neck feathers which is mixed...
Here are pics of the Polish i inquired about. I got this Polish as a chick and was told it was a tolbunt polish, which was ordered from greenfire farms but i believe i got something else. I could not locate any other polish chickens being sold by Greenfire though. Who knows.
OK...so i have a 3 month old polish. How can i tell if it is a rooster or a hen? I never had one before and this one was picked out by my 2.5 year old daughter. She loves it to death but no rooster at my house...so i need to figure out if he is going to be changed out or not. I will post...
Anyone ever see a yolk sack on a 6 week old?
I had two marans (down to one). They are half the size of other chicks of the same age and only have feather out about half way. Still fuzzy on the chest belly and neck. The other chicks are feather out nearly completely. Anyway, one of the...
Just a quick question. I got a Tolbunt Polish chick recently that is a month old. It is all black with a white hood and a bit of white on the wings. Should I expect this chick to remain this color?? The chick came from greenfire farms.