I started to sell off all my lavender orps last year because the chicks weren't selling around here as well as I had hoped. And there are quite a few people along them. But I find the hatching eggs do go pretty good online. I know in some areas people are still getting $9 per chick. The...
I'm seeing lots of good feather quality in some of these pictures. The first lavenders I bought had horrible feathers. Luckily, I've got better ones now. The poorly feathered ones of mine do carry the mottled gene and I actually like the mottleds. So I think I'll keep them around for a...
I only have 2 roosters and 2 hens at the moment. They are about 4 months old. One rooster is quite a bit bigger than the other.
My hens:
The larger rooster "#51". We just call them by their band number, no fancy names.
I had some eggs shipped to me this summer. After hatching them I noticed a couple looked odd, I called the breeder and she had thought maybe her blue splash maran got into the orpington pen during some pen renovations. I sold the birds (both roosters) only to discover about a week later that...