Hi all! This spring I’m looking to increase my flock and also some new colors!
so far the breeds I have
barred rock
rhode Island Red
midnight mystic Maran
light Brahma
olive layers
white leghorn
I live in southern VT just for reference.
my local store will be ordering from Hoovers...
It's amazing to me how you wait and wait for your first egg and then all of a sudden you're inundated with them! I am up to 7 eggs a day out of 11 hens. I really thought that I was getting blue eggs until my girl Harriet started laying 😍
I am 100% sure that Patricia (EE) is laying the olive...
We had to say goodbye to our sweet Dolly this morning. She passed away overnight and we found her dead in the coop this morning. She had been sick for about 2 months now. She had lost a lot of weight (her breast bone was really, really protruding), her comb had flopped over and turned light...
Part 3 of my Coop DeVille project….squirrels, day spa, roost and poop board V 5.0, ventilation and Zen....
June 22. Squirrels! And this was the FB post - a fun notice to the Coop DeVille residents. So all is fine and dandy in the run until the squirrels. They got through the bird netting and...
Hello , we are first time chicken owners. We are getting ready to process our Rainbow and Australorp roosters this weekend and we have one gimpy Rainbow hen that we were wondering if we should process as well. She has a defect or injury she has been living with where she hobbles around and her...
This is a crossbreed project inspired by the Delaware breed.
The Delaware were created from white sports that resulted from mating a Barred Rock rooster to a New Hampshire hen.
I crossed my Barred Rock roo with Dixie Rainbow, which look similar to New Hampshire but instead of 5 to 6 pounds...
You are probably going to get a good variety of colors from these eggs.
Do not buy them unless you want big birds because I think these will be very large.
More about this breed in this thread.
One dozen (12) hatching eggs for $18.
Shipping is $12.80 to all 50 states.
Start a flock of Rainbow...
Yikes!! Just got a thunderstorm with some 70 mike per hour wind gusts! Nothing to badly damaged, thankfully! We have a missing hen, but for now I’m not too worried, she probally found a place to hide until it was over. I was working in the coop, to suddenly be hammered with sudden wind and rain...
I really like the idea of flocks where all the birds are the same color, but their eggs are not! So I'm putting together little lists. Because it's fun. Feel free to add any breeds & their egg color that I might have missed! Here is my first list:
BLACK Chicken Flock:
White Egg Layers...
This is Calico Jack, a mix breed rooster I hatched out for my father. He's still young, and his tail has continued to get a little bigger every time I see him. Here's his lineage...
Pure Bred Auraucana ROO X Hatchery RIR HEN (gen 1)
(gen 1) HEN X Crested Cream Legbar Mix ROO = Calico Jack
So...