Search results for query: *

Wow, @BGMatt and @cubalaya those are impressive lists! Ga noi? They are something else!

I've not kept Australorps yet but they are on my want list. The black ones especially 😍

Broody hens are indeed very useful!

What are your favourites?

My list would be half as long on top if I included all the cross breeds! They have their own charm and character don't they. Also, you never quite know how they will turn out and the guessing is fun.

Because we have so much rain here, that it's only dry about 3 months of the year. The rest is just constant wet and mud. I live rurally and the chickens with feathered feet end up with muddy clay clogs half the time. And I've had real problems getting rid of scaly leg mites in those breeds. I...

That's me, trying to get as many breeds and colours in a small backyard flock as space will allow! I was offered a Partridge Brahma bantam recently and was really tempted because they are so BEAUTIFUL! But my 'no feathered feet' rule prevailed and I declined. Little bit sad though.

I had a Pekin bantam, which is what you call Cochin bantams. She was the sweetest chicken ever and lived quite a few years. I've decided not to keep feathered feet any more, or I'd have that breed again in a moment, just for their tameness and lovely nature. Also such pretty fluffballs.

Wow that is some list!!! 🙇‍♀️ What are your favourites?

Yes my welsummer is bossy, reactive and so noisy! Always complaining about something and nothing! 😂 She is so beautiful though, and lays lovely milk chocolate coloured eggs. But what a diva!!

Totally agree. Heritage breeds for longer happier healthier lives for me.

I love this! My red line now is feathered feet. Our winters are SO muddy here, and I've had so many issues with mites that I won't get silkies or other feathered footed breeds again.

They are really pretty birds!

Sounds interesting! I have had loads of fun breeding my own mixes and working out which hen laid which egg. I had a paint silkie cockerel for years and he fathered a fair few interesting mixes with his genes.

I've seen some of your wisdom on the gamefowl. You seem to know a lot about them! I find them fascinating, and weird and really hard to tell all the varieties apart. Dominiques are pretty.

Wow, what a great story and such a chickeny family you have! ❤️

Black Australorps are on my wish list. Never kept Rocks but I see they are quite popular.

I hear you on the egg production. That's why I won't keep those breeds any more but I started out with them. Having a hen with a really bad prolapse was pretty traumatic, and losing others with egg peritonitis quite young. That being said, one of my red sex links lived for years, even with...

That is very true! You have similar objectives to me. I've only in recent years added in the idea of coloured eggs. Hence the Welsummer and this year the Marans and Auraucana. My Cream Legbar didn't last long so I never got eggs from her.

I have never heard of Tsouloufati! What are they like?