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This aggressiveness in the Bachelor pad could have been caused by the Mothers of the birds. Cocks get their attitude from their Mothers. If you breed a meanish hen she will have mean sons. I have had this told to me several times. The hen determines her son's attitude. The Cock determines the...

Eldevron LOVES snakes ! He snatches them up...by the tail... flips them straight up in the air...catches it head first & swallows it down like a fat piece of spaghetti !!!!!!!!! Cannot imagine how it feels slithering around in his crop............................. These are coast garter...

HA! Love the pictures !! And at this age the Bucks are so gangly & scruffy looking...all legs & angles. Are their voices changing ? So now they make the "gorf gorf gorf" talk ? I actually have a day off ! First in about 2-3 weeks !!!!!!!!!!! So maybe getting caught up on other things besides...

I am having serious issues even finding a spec of time to log on & see what is up.......hope all is well for all. We are starting to order lumber for the house build and I am getting the garden starts IN the soil.................And I am (I really AM ) working on the 2 paintings !! So.....I...

Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh you are a hoot !!!

See chicks in the nest box to the far right? These 2 hens (sisters) are working jointly with ALL the chicks................. She hatched all but 1 egg, seen still in her nest...................Awesome heritage breed. OBTW~~~~~~~ The Java hen was not amused, and wanted out of the Coop...

happy to report (but not a bit surprised) that both broody Buckeyes have hatched their chicks...given 12 eggs each...it will be a while before the Moms get off the nest & I can see what is up, but, this morning, on day 21...I heard wee muffled peeps, and sure enough a little yellow head popped...

I agree with the folk art description.....extremely poor rendition of a Buckeye. I also raise Chantecler, and the body size, width & the stance is so close to a Buckeye...........not alot of difference in the 2 breeds as far as body sculpture itself, just a few diferences in feathering..I am an...

So, if the back is supposed to be rather long & slopes slightly downward at the tail............then a higher tail is not correct ? And a sloped back IS correct ? My Cockerel shown has a broad back which from the "shoulders", actually slopes upward to the tail at that 40 degrees, not a great...

Tailfeathers, not that I am in anyway an expert, I like your cockerel above on the grass, but I also think his shanks seem very short compared to their thickness, but I must say the bird's body looks excellent to me, a very robust bird, well filled out.

This is response to McCary's picture: Hard to tell with his stance, but is his back short/slanted? I also wonder about the long sickles/sickle color grey ? Hard to tell....... he seems very light in color also. Maybe just the light.......don't know ?

COOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have his grandbabies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is Tuscaloosa's brother, and he took BB & BV. What I am interested in, is why my hens are all labeled as "light in colour" but the male wins repeatedly ? hen I wanted to take is oh so broody so I took this one: Tailfeathers hen wins repeatedly, and my Cockerel wins...

The Quinoa has a full grain, so has the roughage needed (fiber) and hydration qualities, so no pasty butt here ! I also use "Broiler Max", as it has FULL vitamins & minerals, and rooster booster does not. Broiler MaX at 1/2 dosage for all my Buckeyes. Awesome stuff for growing large framed fowl.

Good for chicks : I ahave Celiac Disease, so cannot eat wheat, barely, etc and so I subsitute with other grains. One I use alot of is Quinoa (Keen-Wa) I cook it like rice, 2 cups of water to 1 cup of Quinoa grains, and at boil, shut off the pot & let it sit. It swells up alot & is very moist...

About cross beak...besides genetics, Stromberg's "A Guide to Better Hatching" says the beak is formed from the 6th to the 8th day of incubation. So a temp spike during those days can critically effect the beak's formation. Every day of incubation, a different part of the chick's body is...

Well I have been AWOL also, with so many hatchings going on...right after I set 9 doz eggs, I had 2 Buckeyes & one Black Java go Broody............... So I caved (finally tired of fighting with these girls all winter !) and set them all in 1 coop, and gave each one 10 eggs. The eggs should...

My Bucks, at chick stage or months later, at started bird stage, and even as adults, will jump into my arms...hands, whatever to be near me, and are not happy until I hold them close & snuggle, Cockerels or pullets, old or young. It is amazing how friendly they are..... That said...I wondered if...