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Hi BYC community,
I've used this site for answering lots of my questions over the past 10 months, since we got our 4 month old pullets. Finally, I decided to join!
I live in Seattle, WA and have 3 hens, Welsumer, Australorp, and a Barred Rock, and 10 mixed chicks. Our ladies lay beautiful eggs reliably, they started up right at 8 months old in January nonetheless.
Chicks: Our BR went broody a month ago, so I purchased a dozen fertilized eggs for her from a RIR over a variety of breeds, including BR, RIR, BO, and White Leghorn. She rejected one right away and kept finding it and tossing it out. She was right, it was a bad egg. So she sat on 11 eggs and they started hatching on day 20 as anticipated. We had 10 chicks hatch last week. They are beautiful. And interestingly enough, the RIR X WLH created sex-linked chicks (which I know isn't a guarantee with WLHs).
Anyway, I love to talk about chickens, so I look forward to being a BYC member.
Best regards to all & happy chicken-keeping!
I've used this site for answering lots of my questions over the past 10 months, since we got our 4 month old pullets. Finally, I decided to join!
I live in Seattle, WA and have 3 hens, Welsumer, Australorp, and a Barred Rock, and 10 mixed chicks. Our ladies lay beautiful eggs reliably, they started up right at 8 months old in January nonetheless.
Chicks: Our BR went broody a month ago, so I purchased a dozen fertilized eggs for her from a RIR over a variety of breeds, including BR, RIR, BO, and White Leghorn. She rejected one right away and kept finding it and tossing it out. She was right, it was a bad egg. So she sat on 11 eggs and they started hatching on day 20 as anticipated. We had 10 chicks hatch last week. They are beautiful. And interestingly enough, the RIR X WLH created sex-linked chicks (which I know isn't a guarantee with WLHs).
Anyway, I love to talk about chickens, so I look forward to being a BYC member.
Best regards to all & happy chicken-keeping!
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