Its breeding season here in Australia I think also in Asia? anyway I am locking in a small cage today a agressive silkie rooster with a guinea hen and in another small cage a malay roo with a guinea hen so I should get fertile eggs in a couple of weeks and will post pictures of the hybrid chicks.
Quote: Thank you, yes I do love them very much. They were completely unexpected. Late fall hatch.I found them just in time as we were going into a straight week of pouring rain here and I was able to scoop them all up and brood them almost from birth. Of the original 19 eggs (one mama not a communal nest) 11 hatched and thrived and I buried 5 unhatched eggs and three pipped but dead chicks up on the hill in my favorite flower garden overlooking where their brothers and sisters would later grow up and play.(I know I'm a sentimental wimp) Have greatly enjoyed watching every step of their development and guard them fiercely. Such interesting and amazing birds they are!
Quote: Are there any pictures of her still posted on here somewhere? I would very much like to see what she looked like. That is so very sad, I hope so badly that is not the case for your little ones, Bemba. I would have a hard time believing that you aren't already attached to these little buggers
Quote: Good luck with that
HI Bemba,Here is another pic of the eldest hybrid "Guinook" he she is such a character and very curious
Coincidentally enough I have seen a hen-raised turkey tom kept in a cage with a sebright hen, and the cage was literally a meter and a half square. He didn't try anything. She would have weighed as much as half his neck, there is absolutely no way she could have survived being mounted. Mating would not occur. Just crushing. She was possibly the best sebright hen I have ever seen, too bad her owner didn't appreciate her. Not that he was a bad sort, lol, just focused on breeding to eat, not to propagate and preserve good genetics. She'd been given to him, not his choice of bird.
