North Idaho / Eastern Washington

[gimmie birdies]

Fire Dragon, so cute, I am going to send my neighbor friend a pic! Good job, did you share your eggs, or was that all that hatched?

 

[gimmie birdies]

Arrakis, as long as you marked the original eggs, there may be a delay but will probably hatch.

you may want to seperate your limpy hen especially so she cannot roost a bit, it may hurt her leg worse.
I had a 11 month old SLW who hurt her leg flying off a roost, then she favored the other leg, but it would get worse as she tryed to get up and down off roost until both legs didn't work.

 

[Ducks4us]

Does anyone on here have or sell bantam chickens?
I got silkies this year, but i am not quite as into them as i thought i would be. I like being able to see my laying chickens faces. The silkies are so fluffy i cant see theiR eyes. I love how cute and fluffy they are. But i would prefer a different breed that i can see their face. Lol as silly as that sounds. And a breed easier to sex. I still have no idea what sexes mine are except one seems to be a boy.
So im going to try to find these a good home and then look for another bantam breed.
I would like something that still tends to go broody and somewhat of a good layer. Any suggestions welcome thank u.

 

[firedragon1982]

Fire Dragon, so cute, I am going to send my neighbor friend a pic! Good job, did you share your eggs, or was that all that hatched?

This was all that hatched. Had 2 clears, 1 blood ring and 1 that quit around day 7.

 

[gimmie birdies]

yup. that is why you always set more eggs than chicks you want. I am glad you got quite a few!

 

[gimmie birdies]

New to chicks, I have white bantam brahmas, male and female, you could just have.

 

[Ducks4us]

New to chicks, I have white bantam brahmas, male and female, you could just have.

Oh really?! How old are they? Are they a breed that will go broody?

 

[Ducks4us]

New to chicks, I have white bantam brahmas, male and female, you could just have.

Oh actually i just realized those have feathery legs dont they? I would prefer a bantam breed with clean legs i think.

 

[Ducks4us]

Although from what im reading looks like the most broody breeds tend to have feathery legs. So i may have to go with something like that. I kinda like the look of cochins, and seramas , ameracuanas. I like straight combs but dont mind the pea combs. I dont like the rose comb.
I will keep researching!
What are large breed chickens that go broody?

 

[firedragon1982]

Although from what im reading looks like the most broody breeds tend to have feathery legs. So i may have to go with something like that. I kinda like the look of cochins, and seramas , ameracuanas. I like straight combs but dont mind the pea combs. I dont like the rose comb.
I will keep researching!

What are large breed chickens that go broody?

I don't know but my 8 month old Ameraucana went broody, granted I shortened it by giving her mostly incubated eggs already (She was only sitting ~10 days before they hatched). She's a super good mom so far! But the only one of our Am hens so far to be broody. Maybe other large fowl go broody often? Which reminds me, I need to do a broody box soon because we can't be hatching out chicks every time a broody happens...