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I can't tell where you live but summer heat is not necessarily the best thing for chicks. They do better in slightly cooler weather rather than HOT. Good luck with them though.

I think if you have layers and you want to limit the number of eggs they lay by reducing calcium, you're going to have more problems than you realize. Their bodies are going to make eggs. If you take away the calcium, you're going to have egg bound hens that die on you. You might try lowering...

Sorry 'bout that. Don't mean to offend. But I do like them. I like the chanteclers a lot too.

Ooooo, I wish I had room and money enough to take those for you. I LOVE RIRs! I really like the rose combed ones but wish they had smaller wattles. There isn't much of anything finer than a well-bred Rhode Island Red!

Yep, wet wattles don't help. I've thought about those little tiny drinking cups that only the beak will fit into but the winter's cold would freeze those up in a heart beat.

Fraid so!

Beautiful!!!!!

You can sort of work on them at the same time. You choose your breeders according to type and size, then along with color you can narrow your choices down to just a few to breed from. Out of those few, all other considerations being more or less equal, choose the ones with the best combs...

It's most likely a regional thing. He may have a heavy load of Marek's in his local soil and his birds might be particularly susceptible to it.

I'm pretty sure there are at least a couple of Chantecler breeders in Wisconsin. Maybe one in Minnesota?

It would probably be helpful if you were to disclose your own location... at least what state you are in. Then you could perhaps find local breeders.

Partridge chanteclers, I assume? Their ages will be a factor as the smaller one may kick it into high gear at some point if he is still pretty young. Does he have a wide head, and feet bigger than it seems like he needs? Is he gangly right now? He could still surprise you. The other thing to...

I don't know what they bring to the table. But I do know what the Delaware brings and I like it. I won't be able to eat Chanteclers this year as I only have 3 and they're still babies so I have to use what I have and work toward the Chantecler. I'm sure I'll get a taste of them by next fall...

I know this is going to seem like sacrilege but I am crossing breeds for better cold tolerance as well as heat tolerance and meat production. I started with Delawares last year. This past winter, several got frostbite on their combs. One rooster didn't so he is the one I bred from. I also...

What breed are you referring to?

I would not recommend red... especially on the vent... you know how chickens are! I have used this process of identifying eggs from which girls. My girls lay white eggs and I thought it would be easy to tell which egg came from whom. I can tell you, it is not. I think they must have a BM...

Make sure you let me know what you decide on the WFB Spanish. I know a woman in California who has been winning at all the shows she goes to with her cockerel this year.

Nobody has any thoughts or ideas or suggestions on where I could pick up a male on short notice? I'd really prefer a pair but that might tempt me to raise them and my Andalusians are a big enough ($) project.

I have almost decided what to do. We're having serious frost bite issues this year and I was thinking I would go with Wyandottes to cross onto my Delaware hens. But they have fairly long wattles too. So, maybe I could cross some Chanteclers onto the Delawares and they'd be able to take the...