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If you didn't correct him the first time, that's why he did it again; he got away with the first time. Sometimes tho we don't know why they do it; when they are young and start getting hormonal and fight with each other, that is when they do it the most, try to bite or jump at me, trying to find...

You might not have seen or understood the reason. My hormonal cockerels tend to bite my hand when I first separate them into show cages because they are fighting. Boot camp never worked on a mean one here, just made them worse. What has been working is the first time they bite or jump at me I...

One of my favorite EE girls hatched this spring Hatched 1/27 she is a nice size and has a nice chest on her. Wider in the back and tail than her mother. Her very first egg is on the right. The one in the middle is from a pullet a month younger and much smaller. (the egg on the left is a...

No. Not at an APA show, there is no EE class and if you enter as Ameraucana they would either not place if they are close to the standard or be disqualified because they are no where near standard. I would suggest if you want to show get some standard bred birds. EE are mutts, pretty, useful...

hopefully nothing contagious. Maybe just dust? I've noticed some of my birds will sneeze and have a runny nose for a day or so when I put down new shavings or straw, from the dust in it. Because of course they have to dig and scratch and make the dust fly everywhere. You could try some Vet Rx...

those moon faces are pretty cool looking OK I have Earl and a couple of his sisters or half sisters that are really pretty. Their mothers were EE and their daddy was a Lavender Orpington. So here's Earl and that blur in front of him is one of his sisters. Here is a better pic of her; I just...

Oh the silkie is for sure a silkie! I don't know of anything else that could look like them; he just happens to be "pet quality". Most of my Black Copper Marans have decent to good leg feathering. I have one pullet that has clean legs, but had the most copper on her neck so she has been retained...

This is really great to know! I was given a little silkie roo that had clean legs; I bought him a girlfriend that has nice leg feathering but was thinking I shouldn't breed them. So now I know I could breed them and have a good shot at the babies having correct leg feathering. Also helpful with...

Well 3 oliver eggs in the bator, they are EE girls in a pen with BCM roos. Two have hatched, don't see any signs from the 3rd, maybe by morning. These are my first real olivers ;=)

oh that sucks. So sad. The dogs here learned they could jump up on the chicken wire and bend the top down, then went over. Added electric, but didn't get the gate tall enough so they went over that. Recently had a fox find a bit of a hole and get two pullets; cleaned things up, boarded up...

Oh that is terribly sad. Been there done that with people letting their dogs run loose. Do you know what it was?

Thank you; I may repeat the pairing at a later date once I get my new coop and pens finished. If I decide to start selling hatching eggs I will probably put a link in my sig line. In the picture here, yes. On my blog the picture in the page header of a bunch of chicks is of my April 8 hatch one...

I bred my pretty boy Earl to a sister/half sister because I love her soft gold and grey coloring and wanted more birds like her. Their parents were a Lavender Orpington and EE. The chicks are now about five weeks old. In this hatch were 6 chicks, 5 from the EE girl and 1 from my...

Well this round was all about the body. These girls were from 3 EE hens that are all badly pinched in the tail, a very old Welsummer hen and her young daughter that was laying a pretty dark egg (sadly have lost those two girls to preds this summer) and an old Wellie/ Leghorn cross that lays a...

Well, just went through 21 pullets and gave them the "Hogan test" (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=DiJDAAAAIAAJ) Basically at this point I was just looking for the birds with the most width between the pelvic bones and the most space between the pelvis and the end of the breast...

Well I got the first two pullet eggs from my birthday hatch (April 8), both very light brown. The girl that was singing the egg song today is a single comb bearded girl out of a Welsummer hen x EE roo. Oh well. Hopefully her pea combed sisters will lay olives.

whoa! A 14 yr old chicken?????? If you could prove it, I wonder if you have a Guiness record???? I sure never heard of them living past about 7-8

Well six new babies here. I think I posted a pic of my boy Earl the other day. I now have five chicks out what may be his half sister and one chick out of my real old Wellie/leghorn cross girl (she lays a ginormouse spotted egg every other day). Three of the chicks are yellow and white with a...

Last fall I bought a bunch of EEs of different ages from beehappy4ever. One of the boys in that batch I kept had a lavender orp daddy and EE mother. Earl Grey is really turning into a stud muffin! There are more pics of Earl and of some of my youngest EE girls (out of another boy) on today's...

Some of the youngsters growing out have Welsummer mammas so will probably lay light olive, but they are a bit calmer than their pure EE sisters. This fall I have some real sweet BOxBR girls and plan to breed the biggest one to Earl the EE roo; maybe their daughters will be calmer yet. Some other...