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We replied in this thread with a photo of our polish/light brahma cross. Only in our case the father is the brahma and the mother is the polish.

Here is our little pullet Eskarina - her father is a Light Brahma and her mother is a Polish Crested. She isn't laying yet but we have hopes.

My daughters and I have a small mixed flock of 10 hens and a rooster. The rooster is a Light Brahma named StormFly. The hens are a mixture of Americanas, Polish Crested, Silky, Bantam, a giant Jersey, and a pullet who is a mix of Polish and Brahma. Some of our ladies are very old, inherited...

If you have a worm-farm you could try giving them worms for extra protein (watch out though because apparently earthworms can carry roundworm -- but then the soil itself has roundworm also). Letting them free range should enable them to obtain a few grubs here and there. We had a severe...

Hi, I'm posting this in chicken behavior because our chickens are definitely not trained to poo in an orderly fashion! I guess the massive amount of messy poo *everywhere* is what gives free range poultry a bad name. Thankfully, it is easy to rake up since we live in the high desert and have...

So I guess the general idea is that DE neither prevents nor cures roundworms in poultry? Dang, well I guess I can mix it with molasses and use it for fly bait in the summer. I'd still trying to find non-pharmaceutical ways to control the roundworms. I found this...

Yes, it was scary and disgusting. The was something inherently repulsive about it. So you can bet I'm going to be taking some of that food grade DE myself!

About a month ago we received four hens from a neighbor who is transitioning from standard to rare breeds. He doesn't free range, but we decided we'd like to do so after they'd had a chance to bond with their new coop. Everything was working out pretty well until... One of the chickens...