I hope I am not disturbing anyone by butting in.
Wanted to add one thing to this ‘odd’ flocking behaviour.
Shadrach has mentioned time and again that he has observed the chickens somewhat following the saying “birds of a feather stick together”. My observations have been similar.
If we take that...
I’m not sure the mods are to blame for this. I have seen them locking two threads on this topic when it was made clear that the OP only wanted to troll.
In this particular thread no one wants to see abused or mistreated chickens.
It has been made clear by my posts that indoor chickens are not...
Ah, I’m very glad one of the parrot experts I was thinking of agrees:D! Oops, apologies for missing your post! I admit I did not read the first few pages of the thread very thoroughly, as it appeared to be focused around OP. I will go back and look for your reply!
Agreed:).
My favourite chicken breed, and my favourite production breed are quite different :p .
The former is much harder to answer, but with some caution I will say serama or aseel.
Both of which are terrible options for what you’re looking for.
My favourite production breed would have to be the...
In the last few years I’ve had the privilege of working with hens with minor and more major disabilities. Breeds ranged from serama, to ISA brown.
Injuries and other conditions unfortunately left them with mostly mobility issues. Both the hens that I’ve cared for with mobility issues were...
Oh I have broodies, just not the kind I want! The bantam pen is chronically broody, 5 members at a time (or more!).
Last time they did not do well with adopting eggs though, and they are generally very clumsy, so I don’t think I’ll let them
Yeah, that’s what my research has concluded as well. I’m not sure yet.
I know that what I got with the Tsouloufates was not what I was expecting. With this particular landrace there is an ethnic pride involved (some Greeks are way too proud for their own good, IMO), so things get blown out of...
Same as @Ikslo . As was my hope last year, I hope all official hatching will we done by LF broodies, if any decide to sit. Not a very likely scenario, but not entirely unlikely.
As for the incubator, I’m not sure. I do really want to bring in some new blood this year, but I don’t know when, how...