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But no matter what, Joannie stays, she's not a cull even if I stop using her to breed. Cull simply means you are not going to use her as a breeder. Moving her to the eating egg flock, keeping her as a pet, or a good reliable broody are all perfectly acceptable ways to cull a bird. It doesn’t...

Are you starting a 3rd clutch of eggs or taking over for one of the broodys?

I have a mixed flock including 15 hens 1 rooster and 13 chicks. They are fed an all flock crumble feed 20% protein. They spend most of their time in an enclosed run but I try to let the out for a few hours at a time on days that I’m home in the evening. Attached are the notes I have for my 2...

Thank you for your reply. His legs are pretty dirty in those pictures. I recently expanded the outside run and I have been waiting for them the eat down most of the grass before adding more wood chips. So when it rains it gets pretty muddy and the chickens love digging up worms when they get the...

Here are some updated pictures of my boy Axl. Hatch date was June 26 2024 so he is just shy of 11 months old. I know that he is nowhere even close to SOP so I’m using him to breed olive Eggers not Marans. I won’t be offended with a low score and believe me you can’t hurt his feelings he thinks...

Just some random rambling updates: My olive Eggers are 6 weeks old yesterday. They were hatched out by Gina my jersey giant. She was a great mother for 4 weeks then returned to the roost bar and left them to fend for themselves. She must have taught them well enough because they all did fine...

Her feet look yellow to me so I would guess barred rock. A Marans would have pink shanks and feet. yellow legs is a fault on Marans

So far my Snow White hasn’t slept in the box yet. She just wants to put up a fight when I collect eggs. Once the eggs are out of sight she finds something else to do.

Keep your voice down with this broody talk. I have a Light Brahma that doesn’t need any encouragement right now. I’ve had to push her out of the box a few times and I’m trying to annoy her enough that she doesn’t commit.

I’m certainly no expert but they look great to me. Bodies look like what I would expect. Leg color looks correct to me. The pictures are a bit fuzzy when I try to zoom in on their eyes but everything I can see looks really nice

One of them was purchased as a cinnamon queen and was chipmunk stripped the day I brought them home. The other 2 were yellow. The one in question was just a little bit darker yellow/brown in color. At the time I didn’t think they were different enough in color that they were different breeds...

All those single combs sure make it easy to tell the boys from the girls. Most of my chicks are olive Eggers with pea combs. About 1/2 also have beard feathers so they don’t grow big wattles either. So I’m still guessing on a few of mine.

I wish I had time but my twins high school graduation is in just a couple weeks. Luckily my wife is handling most of that, but that means I have to pick up some of her normal chores to balance things out and keep her sane. The garden needs lots of attention this time of year. Also the sturgeon...

I have been clicking around on Hoover Hatchery’s website. For now I’m thinking she is likely a prairie bluebell, starlight green egger or one of the other creativity named mixed breeds that they keep coming up with. I’ll probably just consider her to be an Easter egger until I’m convinced otherwise.

The chicken run expansion is nearly complete. I pushed the east wall out 8 feet adding an additional 128 square feet of space to accommodate the additional birds. I still need to finish up some of the predator protection like netting on top and skirting at ground level. I’ll probably loose most...

I got her from Family Farm and Home. They use Hoover Hatchery. As best I can remember chicks available the day I purchased were Buff Orpington, cinnamon queen, Rhode Island Red, gold lace Wyandotte, and Cornish Cross. I don’t think she looks like any of those breeds. I’m not heart broken that...

2 weeks ago I bought what i thought were 2 Buff Orpington and one Cinnamon Queen. One of the Orpingtons is feathering out a darker than expected color. Her legs are also very orange not pink/white like an Orpington. She is being taken care of by a very protective Wyandotte so it’s hard to get a...

Sounds like lots of chicks in your future. Now you need to train the broodys to leg band the chicks at hatch and you’ll be all set

If you are ever in my area I can give you some green eggs. Most of my green egg layers are Hoover Hatchery olive Eggers Americana x Cuckoo Marans so they should have one copy of blue gene and 1/2 of the daughters will inherit it and lay green/ olive color eggs. They are all covered only by Axl...

I saw you had one thinking about it but hadn’t seen she was fully committed. Congratulations