Ended Official BYC Article Writing Contest #14

[Dottie the Chicken]

Maybe someone could write an article about rooster behaviors. Even just about weird things they do, like that weird scream.

 

[_Moon_]

Maybe someone could write an article about rooster behaviors. Even just about weird things they do, like that weird scream.

I know why they do the weird scream. I'll put it in my article for you.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

I know why they do the weird scream. I'll put it in my article for you.

Oh, thank you!!

 

[AvocadoAbi]

Heyy!
Here's the link to my completed article:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/so-just-how-loud-is-a-roosters-crow.76931/
I tried to make it as unique of a topic as possible.
Blessings on y'alls entries!

 

[PippinTheChicken]

How many entries are allowed

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Pippin's easy guide to silkie sexing

Hello there! When I hatched my own silkies, I studied and studied about how to sex them. I read that it was almost impossible to sex them, and that you had to wait for a crow or an egg. Raising and watching them helped me pick out certain traits that only belong to roosters or hens. These...

• PippinTheChicken
• Sep 2, 2021
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Hemp Bedding- Why is it the best?

NOTE: I am not responsible for some information as it was gathered on different websites. This article is just a gathering of information to explain why hemp is a good bedding. Thank you One of the most heavily discussed topics is: What is the best bedding? We all have different opinions, so...

• PippinTheChicken
• Jul 14, 2021
• 3.43 star(s) 7 ratings
• Comments: 23
• Reviews: 5
• Category: Housing & Feeding Your Flock

 

[AfiafiAfi]

I’m an awful writer but still I’m giving the pics srry because there’s a issue posting my article here

It’s so horrible!

 

[casportpony]

It’s so horrible!

You need to post this link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/so-starting-a-rarery-quailery.76932/

 

[gimmie birdies]

I want to write an article about how I created my gray egg laying avatar "Greyslyn".

I am going to go back to 1999, when I first got chickens for my family. There were only 3. They were just lay pullets a lady from the feed store sold me. They laid. Brown eggs. At that point I was not chicken crazed. From there I had gotten local eggs and hatched them, in experimental incubators. Which became fun for me.

One day I discovered gray feathered chickens, (Blue Andelusian) and then wanted gray feathered breeds. I became obsessed with owning fancy feathered birds, and it seems new birds that caught my eye appeared almost every day. Not long after discovering gray feathered birds, I bought eggs from a farmer that were gray shelled.

His eggs were not fertile though. But since I knew this was possible, I wanted to create my own gray eggs.

Our valley, I live in has a bulletin board that advertises free things, and one day a lady was giving away her whole flock. I was hoping she had blue feathered chickens and she said there were 2. I collected both. That is how I received "Sally" the mother of my avatar.

She was a pretty splash hen , and laid a lovely pink/purple egg...I breed her with a
frizzle rooster, "Silver", that had a dark green egg gene.

Together they created Greyslyn, whom I named even before I knew she was a gray egg layer.

Below is her egg..
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Since then she has been in newspapers, and I have even seen her picture on a Google page, if you look up "gray egg layers." She has had 2 look-alike daughters, and other chicks both frizzle and smooth. All that lay a dark gray egg. I currently have 2 of her daughters, one smooth and one frizzle, they are black in color, but I plan on breeding them with a gray feathered green egg gene, naked neck/ frizzle rooster I have. The daughters eggs have been in a recent Backyard Poultry magazine.

As far as "Greyslyn", she is almost 10 years old, and living on girlfriend's farm and still laying fertile gray eggs.

 

[casportpony]

I want to write an article about how I created my gray egg laying avatar "Greyslyn".

I am going to go back to 1999, when I first got chickens for my family. There were only 3. They were just lay pullets a lady from the feed store sold me. They laid. Brown eggs. At that point I was not chicken crazed. From there I had gotten local eggs and hatched them, in experimental incubators. Which became fun for me.

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One day I discovered gray feathered chickens, (Blue Andelusian) and then wanted gray feathered breeds. I became obsessed with owning fancy feathered birds, and it seems new birds that caught my eye appeared almost every day. Not long after discovering gray feathered birds, I bought eggs from a farmer that were gray shelled.

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His eggs were not fertile though. But since I knew this was possible, I wanted to create my own gray eggs.

Our valley, I live in has a bulletin board that advertises free things, and one day a lady was giving away her whole flock. I was hoping she had blue feathered chickens and she said there were 2. I collected both. That is how I received "Sally" the mother of my avatar.View attachment 2829886View attachment 2829889
She was a pretty splash hen , and laid a lovely pink/purple egg...I breed her with a
frizzle rooster, "Silver", that had a dark green egg gene.View attachment 2829892
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Together they created Greyslyn, whom I named even before I knew she was a gray egg layer.
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Below is her egg..
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Since then she has been in newspapers, and I have even seen her picture on a Google page, if you look up "gray egg layers." She has had 2 look-alike daughters, and other chicks both frizzle and smooth. All that lay a dark gray egg. I currently have 2 of her daughters, one smooth and one frizzle, they are black in color, but I plan on breeding them with a gray feathered green egg gene, naked neck/ frizzle rooster I have. The daughters eggs have been in a recent Backyard Poultry magazine.
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As far as "Greyslyn", she is almost 10 years old, and living on girlfriend's farm and still laying fertile gray eggs.

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