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Sigh. Don't check with me for anything this fall or next spring. We had a horrible heat wave this summer and even with shade, ample water, and places to settle down in the cool dirt my big-bodied Giants keeled over. I had been saving eggs to hatch, thankfully, and was able to hatch out some...

I am, but just joined this past fall.

Just want to share a little bit of Giant excitement. I have some that are due to hatch between this evening and the weekend and some more that ought to come on Leap Day. For those of you who do show, what have you found to be the optimal age for showing your pullets and cockerels? Since they...

Thanks, Wynette. I know I've got a ways to go with my birds, but I think it will be worth the effort because I enjoy them most of the birds I keep. My plan is to use the two black hens I got this fall with my splash cockerel and then keep the best blue hens to use with the black cock from the...

I managed to stalk the splash cockerel from a distance. I've cropped the images to show just him rather than the entire woods. I know his comb isn't great with the blade back like that, but what do you all think of his overall outline? He'll be going in the black pen in a week so I can hatch...

So, I am all kinds of excited about the eggs I have in my incubator right now. 10 of them are from my Giant pen. What's got me so anxious is that I will be hatching from my own stock for the first time this year. My original flock started from a dozen eggs from Maria Hall. Last year I bred my...