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Pat, I would be happy to send a photo to Backyard Poultry, but I can't picture writing an article...I know next to nothing about them except what I have observed about my own ( 3, a very small sample ) birds. I know they fly well and need a covered run. Mine are friendly enough but flighty and...

I seem to not be able to figure out how to put text with photos. Anyhoo, five babies in the photo, added one last hatchling later. Six total. I'm thrilled. First hatch for me, first eggs for the happy couple. : )

Oh my goodness, my first hatch *ever* and so far so good, five new Crevecouer babies as of this morning!! I guess I did not really expect them to hatch, given my surprise when I first saw the little pip holes. : ) Right after I set this first dozen in the incubator, I slipped two under a newly...

They look like perfectly normal eggs to *me*. Now there are four....

What?! Cockerel eggs?!! Pullet eggs, the first eggs a pullet lays, frequently rather smaller than they will be in a month or two. ??

Do small eggs make small chickens? Or are they less likely to be fertile? Or....? I have three eggs now ( if its the trend I will have one a day ) and by the time the hygrometer gets here and the incubator has been running a few days and is up to speed, should have enough to be worth the...

TWO eggs now! : ) What a piece of luck....I did not put the egg in the frig, but decided to leave it on the nest. We have been between 40 and 70 degrees. I can do as you suggest and put them in a cardboard egg carton in the storm cellar, which stays about 60. Waiting on more eggs and a...

I have an egg, I have an egg!! : )) Now what? I have an incubator. Do i put the one egg in the refrigerator and wait for more eggs? Store it in the cellar? Leave it as a hint to the other pullet?? My borrowed incubator is a Little Giant with fan and egg turner. The person who lent it to me...

My cockerel is practically drawing the girls pictures and still no egg has been laid. He breeds them, and shows them to the nest box. " Here, look!" Gets in the box, hunkers down. " See? Its nice! ". They chat back and forth. One of the girls gets in next to him, snuggles close and *they* talk...

I think he is just agreeing with your assessment of the situation. See the 2x? My girls are still all loud chatter and checking out the nest box, but no eggs yet.

Oh crap, I don't know. I know a lot about breeding dogs, but nearly nothing about chicken genetics. We need to ask someone with more experience....how hard is it to correct a comb? If its really difficult then breed to the best comb and select the biggest best bodied from the "litter". : ) But...

Weather is variable....I am outside working in a t-shirt today, tomorrow we may get snow showers. I don't provide additional lighting for my birds. In no hurry, just excited at the prospects. : )

Still much ado about nothing at my house.....

Haven't seen an eggs from mine yet, but they sure are making a heck of a pre egg laying racket! And the cockerel has been sitting in the nest box while the girls look on. Any day now....

My plan is to eat mine if I ever have enough! Only two pullets and a cockerel and the girls have not started laying yet. My understanding is that they are very seasonal layers, so that could be an issue as far as why they are critically endangered. Rarefeathersfarms says Sumatra are more heat...

Poulard, thanks so much for replying! : ) After nearly ten years of various breeds, these have become my favorites and I *am* going to breed them...first chicken in all this time that I have been interested in reproducing. These came from Ideal. : / I only have this cockeral and two pullets...

I was wondering if anyone can critique this young bird for me.