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How sure are you that only one hen is laying? young pullets don't necessarily lay an egg every day, perhaps they are both laying alternatively? Other than that its possible that the non laying hen is a slow starter coming into lay .... I used to Breed La Bresse Gauloise chickens and also Croad...

Hello Zooomama Welcome to the world of La Bresse Gauloise Breeding. In short ... "almost flesh coloured legs," On a La Bresse Gauloise Chicken are not normal. You mentioned that you had 5 chicks hatched ... would it be at all possible to post a photo of the parent birds and also all 5 chicks?

It all depends on how you personally keep and feed them. When i bred them i fed them on good quality chick crumb until they were five weeks and then Growers pellets ad lib ... they would also be on good clean grass, free ranging. Usually they would come into lay at 14 to 16 weeks of age from a...

Reading between the lines here Piglett, I think this woman is using her son as a bait to get unsuspecting honest poultry breeders to send her eggs or birds FOC ...its what we call here a scam.

Thanks for the nice welcome. I have many photos and i will share them .... just at the moment i am struggling to upload photos on a new chrome laptop ... im new to this cloud lark

I was only joking .. lol. It sounds like she could be lonely as you know chickens like company and her being cooped up all day alone wont' help.

Show her the cooking pot that usually works.

Maybe this seems a little obvious .... why not buy a bigger incubator? Personally i have used the octagon 20 for 7 years and find it a very reliable machine .. so much so i just use it for very valuable eggs i may have purchased from overseas. That success i put down to using the machine as...

Hey wow! Lovely photos ... thanks for sharing. Brrrrr that snow looks chilly.

Nice, well cared for and loved birds..... tis nice to see that. :-)

Say Piglett, Getting good results from mail order hatching eggs is such a minefield these days! you are sooooo reliant on many factors , For instance, the freshness of the eggs prior to posting, the handling of the eggs in transit and the timescale involved. Really you just cannot beat locally...

Yes I see that now Juststruttin sorry for the confusion.

I must have misunderstood the posts in this forum, I would never consider comparing a pure bred 'La Bresse Gauloise' Chicken .... with a commercial hybrid, here is me thinking we are talking 'backyard' Ooooops !

I would certainly agree with that. I would stick my neck out here and say that ' La Bresse Gauloise' chickens are probably the best Utility fowl around. I am saying this because my pullets usually came into lay at 14 to 16 weeks of age, and killed out at 5lbs at 18 weeks, providing they were...

And other than being 'pretty' birds ... i would breed them for being excellent sitters.