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They are 1 week old today. I am going to need a bigger scale He weighed 22 oz 4 days ago, now he is 30+ This one weighed less than 19oz 4 days ago, now weighs 28oz

I will probably get some white californians again. I have around 200 layers, that I got in September, right now plus my showbirds.

I want to order another 50-75 for the layer flock. I will probably wait until late March or early April though. Right now we haven't gotten above 0 for 8 days, not good chick shipping weather

Chicks are a bit harder but adults are very obvious. Often times hatchery birds are smaller than ones that are bred to the Standard Hatchery Partridge Cochin A Partridge Cochin bred by M&M Exhibition Poultry 2 Examples of Hatchery Black cochins 2 of my Black Cochins, not perfect...

The spitz, jersey giants, turkens and sussex are all great hardy birds! The Lakenvelders I have never owned, and I do not know anyone who does, if I remember correctly they are cold hardy, but I could see there combs as being an issue. The polish are my biggest concern, I have never had luck...

My Faverolles laid through the winter, I do have artificial light in though. The Spitz will do well, I live in North Dakota and they tolerated the winter the best out of all of the breeds

Definently LF. Often times hatchery ones can be smaller than the ones bred to the standard. Sounds like a fun flock! I have had a couple of those breeds. The spitz are very fun looking and extremely hardy!

Cochins and brahmas are extremely slow growing. For males to completely mature can take up to 3 years. By one year they have usually finished growing in bone structure but have to fill out yet. Here are some of my younger ones from this fall. They may look different because they come from my...

I am weighing my 2 cochins as they grow just to see weight gain, and since there is only 2 it makes it easy! As you can tell this little one doesn't even tip the scale! The average Cochin egg weighs about 23 oz

I hatched out 2 LF black cochins out of my show stock almost a week ago. I really want some more though. I would love to have my dream flock put together, I guess it will have to wait 6 years though.