Thanks both. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a girl but also have a few boy vibes. It's a very sweet timid chicken, and at 16 weeks maybe not long from laying hence the comb which has only just started looking bigger in the last 2 weeks.
Hi everyone. Can anyone offer thoughts on this 16 week old aruncana cross? I'm really hoping hen as if it's a rooster I would have thought there'd be more comb and wattles!
Hi all, I live in Trentham Victoria and have a few roosters that are free to a good home. They are currently in their own bachelor pad with about a quarter acre of land but I just wondered if someone may want one of them for their flock. If no one wants them they'll retire happy on the...
Greetings from a very cold Little Hampton in the Highlands of Victoria. This is my newest family member, hatched out of her little olive egg 6 days ago!
I agree, massage at least 3 times, even more if you can and when my girl had it I massage softly with a closed fist so my knuckles acted like different pressure points to break it up. Took a few days but it worked. Also i crushed up some tinned sardines with oil and they got gobbled up...
Hi all,
I have an abundance of fertile eggs for sale at $2 each (min 6 per order), and I am looking for the best place to advertise and sell. I've got olive eggers, lavender arancuna, black orphington, Bantam silkie, and rhode island reds.
Can anyone assist, I'm on gumtree but thought their...
Hi all, I live in Trentham Victoria and have a lot of fertile eggs for sale. Lavender arancuna, black orphington, olive eggers, silkie bantams, Plymouth rock and rhode island reds. Eggs are $2 each and sell minimum of 6, happy to post or drop off in the Trentham, Daylesford and Macedon...
Hi all,I have a lovely white arancuna rooster that needs to be re homed, he is about 10 weeks old in this photo and since has developed beautiful lavender tail feathers. I already have another rooster whose 2 years old and don't want to have two. If anyone is interested please email...
Got my first egg from coco today, it was a little olive coloured egg, she mmade her a tiny little nest in the back of the coop, very exciting as she hatched from a brown egg and there wasn't a huge chance sheshe would lay coloured egg.