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well, i'll have to snap some pics of my babies soon, but I hatched out 10 chicks from a BLRW rooster and eggs from 3 blrw hens and then a few other breeds, now that they are about 6 weeks old, its becoming very obvious which are the pure breds and which are the mixes, but for some reason, i...

Yep! she eats and drinks fine, i didn't notice right away, she was a few weeks old before it was obvious. I was curious because I will re home her so i don't hatch any of her eggs. I hatch for my own flock, just to replace older hens, and for meat, but i didn't want the chance of grabbing her...

So i have a special bird, is this genetic of a malformation from the egg? She eats and drinks normal, and has grown just as big as the rest of her hatch mates.... she's about 6 weeks old now.

WOW! i'm proud of my broody! she did a wonderful job! 8 hatched, 2 with peep holes and chirping, and the last two are chirping in their shells! so far, if everyone comes out of their shells ok, i have all the eggs hatch!

okie dokie. i love how they weave in the feathers of momma. how skinkin' cute! its a little cold today, so i set up a heat lamp in case they started to wander. they are in a spot of their own, so its chick safe! I separated my broody about a week into sitting, so no one bothered her...

well, i woke up this morning to a few peeps from my eggs. my broody has succeeded her first hatch. by 6 a.m. there were already 3 wet chicks, and after an hour i went to check on them again, and many more had hatched, some wet, some fluffy, and the eggs that were still whole had already shown...

hey all! i was really active on this thread when my chickens were little adorable fluffs. Fast forward to almost a year and a half later, and I now have a BLRW sitting on a bakers dozen (seems luckier to say it that way rather than 13....) Due to hatch on the 24th, this saturday. This is my...

This is my big boy, Blue. Very handsome, yes he is a little brassy in his hackle and saddle feathers, but what do ya do? He hatched around the 1st of may this year. He is very big, but i have yet to weigh him.

sorry how that post came out, i dont know what happened there.

Quick question, what color eggs should I be getting? I thought I had all brown (one white the rest are supposed to be shades of brown) A picture of the random colored egg. Most of the girls are laying, but a few have yet to, mostly my wyandottes, but i thought i saw this pullet in the box that...

I'm a little freaked out by the EE's. I think they look weird, i guess that would make em easier to butcher.

Well my leghorn is from a hatchery, so I'm to assume she got two sets of that dominant gene. I thought she'd be the easiest to try it with since she's the only white egg layer i have so i know which eggs I'm grabbing. Would crossing her offspring back to the blue Roo help with adding color to...

What would i get crossing a blue Roo to a white leghorn? I have been making stuff with feathers and want different colored feathers. So a couple mix breed butcher chickens would produce a ton of usable feathers!

Hello there, just wanted to share my idea for using feathers. These come from my mixed flock. I can ship too if anyone is interested. A small bubble envelope is cheap! http://spokane.craigslist.org/clo/3998056174.html

Well like i said, his offspring go to the freezer, and the freezer doesn't discriminate. However, i will always be on the lookout for better stock to improve on my own. No one within 3 hours of me breeds these birds, so it would be worth it to me to have good breeders to sell chicks. And...

Nooooo! Where'd all this orange come from? Up until this point, he has been all mahogany! Good thing he's a breeder for the freezer, and the freezer doesn't care what colors he throws. Lower right corner is my Rhode island red, for color comparison.

OK, im in the spokane Washington area, and i wanted to add a pullet or hen, i saw an add on craigslist the other day for pullets in the sandpoint idaho area, but now the post is gone, i think I've seen pictures on her before... PM me if you have any still or will again soon.

She was intended for eggs, I'm not trying to show, I'll dabble in breeding to replenish my own flock, and for friends, but they want mixed breeds anyways. I was just curious, a the others i got at the same time were spot on for color, a little disappointed with this one, at least she's friendly!

OK, i know my pullet is not looking like the best, but she's what i got.. . Can someone tell me what's going on with her color though? She's supposed to be a splash, and as a chick, looked very blue, in a splashy way. But the lacing she does have is on her back, and its reverse, the lacing is...

so earthworms are bad for chickens? mine have eaten them, how common is it? should i worry ? should i treat them just in case? how long after eating worms would a problem arise?