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(deleted because I realized you meant CanadianBreeder, not Cape Breton...) My rooster is really nice with people and oddly enough--to the Brahmas--but he absolutely HATED his own kind--the other cockerel was quiet and not manly at all--he never left his perch in the barn and then one day I...

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I don't mean they aren't flashy--I absolutely ADORE my rooster--he looks like he's been polished--his sheen is phenomenal. He's gorgeous, except for that frigging white in his sickle. I'm not going to get rid of them--I couldn't. But I don't have the best stock, and all I've had with them was...

I hear you loud and clear, CanadianBuckeye. I have similar problems, only worse luck. Last year I started with 5 pullets and 2 cockerels. Culled one male as he was "dumb--like something was really missing "upstairs" and he had a super slow feathering thing going on. Bought another pair from the...

Beautiful birds! Congratulations on an awesome acquisition.

I have some torpedo shaped eggs too--same breeder--but in my Marans and a Welsummer. I can't see hatcheability being good on any of those eggs--no room for a chick to grow.

Last year I got 7 Buckeye chicks from a breeder here in Eastern Canada. They were absolutely not wheaton type (eWh) chicks, but totally wild type (e+) chipmunk chicks, with partridgey heads on a few. I really like the oldest male--he is beautiful, dark, large, and not nasty. To me, they are...

I'm quiet, but I'm also still here- still plugging away, collecting eggs and waiting and wishing for spring. (Also in Eastern Canada). I've had a lot of birds over the years, but Buckeyes really surprised me--they are the sleepers in my flock--laying huge eggs, active, busy and friendly. I...

Also, make sure you hang onto the parents to breed back to their best offspring.

One of my Buckeye pullets pulled a fast one and hatched out one Buff Brahma as a surprise. Surprise! This was her first clutch of eggs- she laid her first clutch and went broody immediately, I stuck some eggs under her to check fertility in the Brahmas, thought better of it and swapped them out...

LOl- yes there is. Sounds so exotic when it's sung by the Beach Boys. California Girls "Well East coast girls are hip I really dig those styles they wear And the Southern girls with the way they talk They knock me out when I'm down there"... (But he wishes they all could be California Girls!)

I may be biased because I think I have a sibling of yours--but I really like this guy- he has a nice neat comb. Like his colour as well. You are lucky to have more than one to chose from. I only have one- so he'd better be good enough. I lost one pullet to a predator- so I only have 4 pullets...

I'm really pleased with how my male turned out, he may not be show perfect but I think they are workable. I don't have any with single combs thnkfully, but I do have 2 pullets with almost nothing for combs, really close to their heads. So they might offset his high, not so perfect peacomb. I...

You will be surprised by their size- they lay a really large egg for the size of the hen. One lays a pretty tubular egg, but the others surprise me by the size they lay relative to my Marans.

I picked up a young spare Buckeye cockerel and a pullet this weekend, same breeder as before. I lost one laying pullet to presumably a fox, and with only 4 others I was worried. One is broody. And- yeah- I got two Welsummer pullets for my other Welsummer cockerels- plus a Wheaton and Blue...

I was worried when I noticed some of my chicks of different breeds had green or hazel eyes--but sure enough when they grew out enough, their eyes were the correct colour. Never realized their eyes changed colours until I went looking one night, and they had lovely bay eyes! The more I learn...

If she managed to lay/drop the egg and the white, hopefully she'll be ok. If some of the egg is retained inside they can get peritonitis, which is usually fatal. :( Sucks. I don't visit all the different breed threads as I no longer breed Old English--but the games as a whole have so many...

That sounded harsh, and I didn't mean it that way. I've always been interested in genetics of colour in chickens, and the light hackled guy is really neat.I'd like to try to figure it out.

Hope she is on the mend also. Sucks when you have a good bird sick. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. I hold my breath every time I open up my barns, but I'm blessed with very healthy birds overall--some of my Araucanas are 10 years old and still lay. Apparently they "heard" I am really...

He is BB Red in colour, for sure. As far as being a game-- he might be from fighting stock which I think is a mishmash of different types of game fowl. He's not Old English though. (You never said he is.) But he might very well be from fighting stock, which often don't look much like the Old...