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Yes, she looks like a silver penciled rock. Looks like a single comb too.

Hello, I'm from PEI too. I keep silver-pencilled plymouth rocks. We also have some leghorns and some meat birds and some geese. This is a great site.

Egghead, I feel your frustration. I have a hatch of 19 eggs due this week. I'd like to incubate a few more but my breeding rooster injured his leg so the current eggs are probably not fertile. Hens are slowing down on laying eggs, so it's a bit iffy whether or not I'll get more spprs before the...

Hi all So far I've a small hatch of 6 chicks from the new rooster and more are due this month. I'm selling a few eggs and hope to grow out some replacement pullets and some breeding trios to sell this fall. A Woods chicken house would be wonderful! Good luck with the build Egghead Jr. We have...

Wyandottes are beautiful too. You will need to hatch out some to start, then choose your best ones to use in your breeding program. There is a good explanation in an old Standard about how to choose mates to get the best feather patterns for the males and females. I hear that it is best to work...

Mine have been quite broody, but sometimes they were broody when it was way too cold. Last year I was taking the eggs from my only two hens that were laying and trying to incubate them. (Most weren't fertile - but that was because I had a slow rooster.) So they didn't get a chance to collect any...

<Archived profile pic inserted above.>Sadly, most of my hens were killed by a predator a couple of years ago. I'm looking forward to building up my flock again. My current hens' legs are quite dusky, so I'm hoping the new rooster will help with this. Glad to know that I really can sex the...

Thank you for your kind comment. My sppr hens also have quite dusky legs but oddly the males do have more yellow in their legs. My new cockerel from Cape Breton has very yellow legs so I am hoping that he will pass this on to his offspring. I have been able to sex the chicks by the colour of...

Hi Merrymouse, I'm in PEI, Canada, and there aren't many sppr here. Where did you get your hen? I had to go out-of-province to find another bloodline for breeding. Am very happy to have a cockerel from Cape Breton for my breeding program this year.

Yes, it was warm enough today to do a complete cleanout of all the chicken pens. The laying hens are truly enjoying the new sawdust bedding. They are dusting themselves as if they were outside in a sandpile.

SPPR's ~ I still have them, and am glad to see this thread. I finally got a new cockerel late this summer and will breed him to 5 young hens next year- when they all mature.

Hi Donald Wayne I'm Janet D. from PEI. IThink I may have spoken with you about silver pencilled PR's last spring. Only 5 new sppr chicks hatched this year. I had lots of eggs, but poor fertility. Do you have a sppr rooster that you are willing to part with? I'm planning a camping trip to Cape...

Me too! My 4 leghorns have been laying all winter. Now the silver pencilled plymouth rocks are starting to lay. Yeah!

Hi lcraig, I replied by personal message. I hope to have fertile eggs for sale in June.

Hello fellow PEIslanders I`m from North Wiltshire. I raise silver pencilled plymouth rocks. I have just 3 hens and one cock now. We had a mink attack last fall. I plan to hatch out chicks this spring and enlarge my flock again. Bye for now.

Loving it! It surely has style!

Your coop is beautiful. Do you have any chickens?

Hello Highland Spirit I'm from PEI. I got my silver pencilled plymouth rocks from George Nauss in Brookfield, NS, not far from you. I don't know if he is still around because he was over 80 a few years ago, but I am very pleased with the birds that I got from him.

Hi all I think it may be natural goldfinch behaviour. I saw one just this week at work. The goldfinch flew up to the boardroom window during a meeting and stayed perched on window ledges looking in for the whole meeting. It moved around to different windows during the meeting but really looked...

Thank you Clayton. I love the look of your birds too. Hello Back At It. I wonder where you are located. I have not heard of Ruth Whitney, but I have only recently started my sppr flock and do not know many breeders from the past. (I'm from Canada, but someone in the US may know of her.)...