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Yay!! I'm so glad for you! ;-) My VERY FIRST broody hen (a hatchery dutch) has been sitting on six eggs... and they just started hatching this afternoon!! Four out of the six have hatched, and the last two have the first pip holes. ;-) And i know people say that you are supposed to...

One of my Buff Brahma bantam cockerels! He's my favorite... and he's so WIDE! I love how chunky he is. ;-) And the girls... Any other fellow virginians discover the wonders of Brahma Bantams? I LOVE THEM. ;-)

What was it like before i showed up with stupid questions? :-P

Took a walk through our field this evening... Our Dorking Cockerel decided that following me looked fun. It's so theraputic (sp) to have a flock of chickens clucking around me and come running when I step out the door. *blissful sigh* and then to have my yellow tomcat crawl up on my shoulders to...

Lol!!! One clarification, it was an outside dog... not an inside dog! :-D it was pretty gross... even if it did work. I think there are better ways to teach a dog. Lol.

Thanks very much ki4got. :-) good stuff. I'm not actually planning on doing it myself - I was just admiring all the different colors in cochins... and wondering what would happen if the colors were mixed. :) random question that was not meant to cause friction - it was merely hypothetical...

Thanks for replying A&A.... I got some good answers via pm messages too. I should have probably done a search about color percentages...I didn't realize that it would be an issue with different colors. I sure have not had it explained to me before, so not sure what posts you were talking about...

No, I'm purely asking about color... Not mixing breeds. :) what would be a color i could breed to a Red Cochin and still get colors that are accepted by the SOP? Like, obviously you can breed a splash to a black and get blue. Is there any other colors that work in a similar way? Say: if i...

No, I'm not trying to create anything... I just wanted to know what colors are compatible with eachother - and if I happened to be able to get a mixed straight run of Cochin bantams next year from Cackle Hatchery (I can't get any more chickens this year) Would there be awful colors showing up...

Hypothetical genetic question. What would happen if I had a pen full of Cochin Bantams - with no two the same color. Would the resulting chicks be weird colors, or would they still be throwing SOP colors? If that wouldn't work, what would be colors that would work with say the red Cochin? Or...

@ApiaryandAviary Im so sorry! That's quite the surgery. Hope it goes well and you recover quickly. And about your other post... When i was growing up, we had an airedale terrier that killed a couple of our new chickens... My dad took the dead chicken and tied it around the dogs neck, and left...

My first broody hen!! Penny (a hatchery Dutch bantam) is sitting on a clutch of 5 eggs! I think. She may have laid one or two more. :-) I'm curious how this will end up, because she just started sitting on them yesterday, but I just left all the eggs in there for about two weeks. She started...

Hey, I PMed you.. no hard feelings. :-) My policy is to be as polite and thorough online as I would be in person! If I ever get too blunt and/or unkind... someone kick me. I will be careful in the future. :-) I was trying to post with my phone, and wasn't being thorough and was sending too...

So when do the hormones start kicking in? My guys are about 11 weeks old, and they are crowing already, but they are getting along fine. I have 2 orpingtons, 1 dorking, and maybe a wyandotte cockerel all together with 16 pullets. So far they are scared stiff of my one year old Dutch bantam...

Makes sense. i was confused. :) all that i have learned from chickens is in the few books I've read, so I didn't realize that there were breeds other than the phoenix that were long tailed. sounds very interesting! Good luck in your genetic questions. I'll step out of the conversation. Sorry...

I like the looks of the fly ties I saw on Google Images. They look very classy!

So a phoenix is an onagadori??

Lol - I was just meaning I feel sorry for the birds with their horribly long tail... Do people ever trim them so the bird can live a relatively normal life? Edit: just read your updated post.. I never said you had a mill... I never said they are a bad breed or that you in particular were at...

@Our RoostYou'd get some cool chicks! I love cross breeds. :-D