I understand that EE’s are basically a mutt type of chicken. I know tracing what breeds they’ve come from can but nothing but a guess and I’ve seen a wide variety in the time I've been tasing a backyard flock. The attached photo is my rooster “Lil Wayne”. I’ve seen severa other people on here...
Interesting. I was thinking that if he carries the blue egg gene mixed with her olive gene that maybe it wouldn’t brighten the green eggs in her offspring. I’ve heard barring is pretty dominate. Wonder if the offspring would carry it.
thinking about hatching some eggs from these two. Any idea what I’d get? Rooster is EE and the cuckoo/barred pattern hen at the top of the pic is an OE. Her eggs are a darker green with speckles sometimes.
Definitely EE and I’m ok with that. We live our other EE. The Co-op said the hatchery they buy from is Mt. Healthy Hatcheries. Any experience with them?
got this supposed little lady at the co-op today. First of this little tailess breed that I’ve owned. What color would you say it is? I see a wide variety of colors online for them.
I have 13 chicks that are 75% English Orpington and 25% Australorp. They range from 7 weeks to 5 weeks. I’ve been told they are harder to sex until 8-10 weeks of age. When they reach that age, what will I be looking for to distinguish the different sexes? Bigger combs and wattles? I’ve also read...
I went out to my run/coop tonight to gather eggs and noticed my 8-9 month old Copper Maran was dead, lying underneath the coop inside the run. She had no apparent injuries, was stiff so I know she has been dead for some time. Definitely was not dead last night when I gathered eggs. She hadn’t...
Just hatched 3 English Orpington chicks. Their mothers are black, the fathers could have been a variety of English Orpington color. How early can they be sexed?
My RIR has been laying eggs like this for months. Just dawned on me that it may not be a hatchable egg with its shape. I have a few in the incubator that I started yesterday. Anyone have any experience with these shapes? Any knowledge as to why this occurs?