Aww, the first one looks the closest to Hawk, it will be kind of a shame if it’s a boy. He could be really handsome though!
What is your rooster’s name? I hope he does have the genetics for chocolate eggs. Olive eggs are so pretty!
Août is a Blue Cuckoo Marans, but it’s hard to see the cuckoo...
I went back to the picture you posted before, and Hawk looks a little like she might have the blue gene and potentially even a barred gene which is hard to see in her light feathers. I know my Août is blue and barred, and her barring is difficult to notice even though she is mostly a solid...
What a mystery! I bet the experts on some of the other boards would be able to explain why you got two different colored hatches.
Regardless, they’re cute as can be, and I hope they grow to be happy and healthy hens!
Welsummers tick some of your boxes, but not all. If you live in a cold climate I wouldn’t recommend them. Even the hens have large combs that get frostbite, and the roosters must be much more prone to it. Honestly, they don’t seem to be great for hot weather either, as mine get surprisingly...
They’re adorable! I think you have black sexlinks there, which means they are probably Domino’s (or another barred hen’s) babies rather than Hawk’s. Is that possible? If so, the boy has his dad’s feathered legs :)
1 egg today, from Helmikuu :)
Harvested an overgrown rutabaga today, and the girls enjoyed all the greens. I made soup with the root, which was surprisingly yummy!
Yep! They stop laying occasionally for many different reasons.
In this case, my Juin laid over 300 eggs last year (her first year) even though she’s not a production breed. Since winter ended she has laid sporadically, gradually tapering off to nothing by mid-spring. She needs a molt and a...