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Ditto that, I've only ever raised chicks on pine shavings, they've never tried to eat it and they love to scratch in it. I had a problem once with a tiny chick trying to eat an entire Japanese beetle once, THAT sure got stuck in her throat, heh. I had to come to her rescue with a pair of...

Not to mention that most of us are backyard breeders. I shipped out a lot of fertile eggs this spring, but I only hatched out so many for myself. I had a list of local folks waiting for my extras, and in the end had to turn a few folks away because I simply ran out of extras and I'm already down...

Good luck with your hatch! Spread those Doms far and wide! :)

Those pictures both look like girls to me. :)

Awww, look at all the sweetie-peas. I'm a sucker for the newly-hatched. :) Glad you had such a great hatch!!!

LOL, well I'm one of them so you could start by PM'ing me. ;)

There are three breeders just next door in NH. :)

A hen decides when she wants to go broody. Aside from providing her a decent place to do so, there's not much you can do to force her into it. Some breeds (and strains within a breed) are more broody than others. There's not much you can do about it aside from acquiring stock with some mothering...

I had a couple chicks from a Dom roo over a black australorp and also a Dom roo over a buff orpington. The crosses with the BA turn out looking pretty much like Doms but with roos and hens being about the same shade. Dom over BO gives barred birds with variable leakage of red/gold coloring. I've...

One's comb is definitely not rose, I'd say.

Yep, totally agree.

The friendliest male chicks always turn out to be the biggest butthead roosters. ;)

The boys taste good. :)

Haha, no I mean I am a she. Not the chicken. ;)

She. ;)

Heh, I would have guessed male. But it is hard with no other chicks to compare to. :)

It just means you have a Dom that does not meet the definition of a Dom. Both of its parents were, at best, heterozygous for the rose comb gene, and you got one that popped out with a single comb.

We're in the middle of our first hatch of the year right now, and we had a little fun with chick photos today. :)

Hey lazy gardener, I'm in NH and we've got fertile Dominique eggs from the breeding pen right now. You could eschew the hatchery altogether if you want. :)

Heh, you're a week ahead of me, my first hatch is due March 1st. It doesn't look even remotely like spring here, with 2 ft of snow on everything and more due tomorrow, but fresh peeper-cheepers will make it feel like spring. :)