Recent content by Dexters Mom

I am not breeding! I just have a little Backyard Flock! Not a serious breeder!!! Or breeder at all! I just hatch a handful of chicks each year to keep my flock 'young' (I usually buy and set 6 eggs.) This is the first time I actually hatched my own eggs because I kept the rooster!!! The funky...

Headed out to take a picture of mom, dad and the baby in the brooder! I always assumed that two blacks can only have black offspring!

Mom and dad are BLACK! I got the eggs they are hatched from off a breeder. I made sure I kept the eggs from 2 different pens separated and kept one hen and one rooster. I only saw blacks at the breeders place!!! Not one blue in sight! Only have a pic of Daddy when he was about 6/7months old

Here it goes! I have no idea about chicken genetics! But.... I have a BCM hen and rooster. Both with feathered legs. I just watched one of their eggs hatch. The only dark brown egg inside the incubator! It just hatched. The chick is not black like mom and dad when they hatched!!!! What is...

Here it goes! I had a clutch of BCMs hatch on August 24th 2015. My first BCMs, the eggs were mail ordered. I kept one pullet and one rooster. The pullet/hen started laying 2 months ago and all the eggs I checked are fertile! (The Rooster is doing one heck of a job with my flock!) Her eggs are...

I am very pleased! The pullet and one roo will stay with me and the 2nd roo will find a new home with my friends flock. Thanks everybody <3

My 3 BCM chicks were hatched on August 24th. They are so much fun!!! Can't walk into the yard without them flying onto my shoulder I had 5, but sadly lost 2 to my neighbors cat. Hard to take a good picture of them, but I think I have 2 roos and 1 pullet! Two have nice red combs/waddles...

Oh thank goodness!!! HER Dad is not very keen on other men around the coop :)

Thanks for clearing up the whole "French" mess lol I am very happy with them! Mine hatched with feathered feet!

I am a first time Black Copper Maran keeper! These are my first chicks of the breed. I got 7 eggs from a local farmer and 5 hatched only 4 days ago. They are raised by my best Mom. A 2 year old Black Dutch Bantam. I do not show, I do not breed myself, I am in it for the fun and fresh eggs :) I...

Mom and Dad had one Baby! I can not take a decent picture of it, because it is skittish and lightning fast! Mom is done taking care of it and I was wondering if anybody had a good guess if I have another mini egg producer or competition for Dad? I just can not tell..... Baby (Tiny) Dad...

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! My entire family is relieved now I got very concerned, because they are so young but so much bigger than the year old Cinnamon Queens!

I am a bit in a panic! Sold as RED CROSS PULLETS at TSS. They are about 3 months old and tower over my Cinnamon Queens and are almost twice the size of my Barnyard EE Mixes. I was told there is a good chance they are Meat birds. That would break my heart! I have a few pics. Hope someone can...

I am so confused! I have been getting different information everywhere I turn :( Here is my dilemma... I got 2 Plymouth Barred Rock chicks at TSS. Turns out they are Bantams! No where did it say that they are! My top hens in my little Backyard Flock will take those little cuties apart. I can...

They did not tell me what Hatchery they got the chicks from :( Let's say you are right :) Will they look different from the Red Sex Links I already have in my flock?