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I received fertilized eggs via USPS for the second time ever. Read a bunch about letting them set for 24 hours and did all that. I did read an article that stated candle before putting in to make sure that the air cells are attached. I ordered six they sent nine and nine are detached. I need...

We grind and make our chicken feed ration from local whole grains and buy out vitamins and minerals to make a healthy ration. When I say we I mean my husband that has patience to do all of that! I’m super cautious with my chicks when they hatch! I want to make sure they are getting exactly what...

I’ve been watching rheee for weeks and still not sure what other breed these two are. For sure blue silkie dad. What would the hen be? Mom could be.. Crele Pacenendeca Light Brahma Partridge Cochin Sicilian Buttercup Blue Breasted brown leghorns Blue Cochins

We hatch all of our chicks and have a passel of cuckoo Marans. We got this guy out of the bunch. Is he just considered “lighter” than the rest?

I have had consistent blue and splash chicks with my Blue Coppers Marans, Black copper Marans, and Cuckoo Marans. I recently started breeding them with my Cochins. In the big hen living area our squirrly Blue Silkie jumps the fence 😏 I have an assortment of hens in there. I had been collecting...

We have a Smokey Pearl Hen that had chicks with our black mottled Cookies and Cream Rooster. They had a Paint Pearl. Say you breed her with a blue silkie rooster? We did but trying to figure it out. Will they pass on the paint and ghost barring? The boys from the original parents had boys with...

I had a blue silky rooster get in with our blue and splash Cochin hens and our black silkies and blue silkies. I have a lot of cool blues going on! And a lot of black skin and legs. Some have yellow toe tips or black feet with yellow feet bottoms. Coincidentally I looked into fibro the other day...

we converted our dog kennel into a chicken coop. We live in Western North Dakota now that it’s starting to warm up a little bit. The frost is coming out of the ground. Our concrete floor in the coop is sweating. It sweats a lot. Enough to where we have to redo bedding two or three times a week...

Our little blue silkie rooster finagled his way into our big commingled hen pen! We have what’s clear a lot of blue sikies from the silkie moms but what I thought was the BCM eggs turned out to be silkie looking too. So I’m assuming blue silkie is the dad too obviously. What can we expect to...

Does anyone know the nutritional value in chickpeas?

While messing around with a combination of a few of our chickens we got a combination that makes paint hens and a white rooster with ghost barring. I’ve been trying to do my research on ghost barring and can’t find a lot as far as how to keep that going and maybe adding a certain color like blue...

Our rooster is in picture #1 and is black mottled. We have a few Plymouth Barred Rocks. These are the boys we got out of the combination! Woukd this be considered barred with the V look? Or? The few Blue Cochins we got with the mix with the rooster also had the V design on them. Any help with...

We have a cookies and cream rooster. Hens are ISA Brown, Black Australorp, Plymouth Barred Rocks, Smokey Pearl, White Cochin, and Blue Cochins. A few are pretty obvious they are not but I’ve been having a hard time with the black australorps, barred rocks (sex linked with this combo) and the...

What would you get if you crossed a Black Mottled Rooster and an ISA Brown Hen? How about Black Mottled rooster and Smokey Pearl Hen? Specific characteristics of both combinations please!

We make our own ration of whole grain feed. We do half a portion of grains dry and half of grains fermented. Everything is going excellent and birds are laying better then they even have even considering it’s winter in ND. Not many hours of daylight 🤯 We do use soy meal and noticed when I don’t...

We have ISA Browns, Barred Rocks, black austrlorps, blue Cochins, White Cochins, and Smokey Pearls. I want to hatch a specific breed this time and think I might know the Cochins eggs? First picture I want to say the last six in their side are the Cochins. Last picture I think the top row...

I ordered a few specific roosters from Meyer. When posted in a thread everyone said he wasn’t what I ordered and when addressed a Meyer confirmed. Bummed because he’s the only rooster breeding and we had a plan. When posted another time everyone said he was the first breed that confirmed wasn’t...

I purchased a few Easter Egger bantams and have been watching this one and it’s beautiful color! From researching I see that it is a wheaten blue? Could someone explain the genetics when and if he/she hatched chicks and what we could expect? I found one similar and they said it was a splash. I...

Ok my world changed changed today with playing with my breeds. I thought I had a mottled Cochin bantam. But from a mix up at the hatchery I either got a Green Queen rooster OR a cookies and cream! HELP! Now the babies are turning out a lot of blues and from what I see mottling. I know it...

We have been hatching our Smokey Pearl hen eggs that have been running with our Black Mottled Cochin bantam. We are getting what looks like our Smokey pearl hens with the yellow legs and feet and red combs. Then we are getting some with dark feed and tiny combs and paint looking. While watching...