In some unfortunate news only one baby remains. Idk what happened to the rest, they were just gone when I went to move the hen.
Guess I’ll have to do a rebreed
Looks like I’ll have 4 little babies to share soon! 3 have hatched and the fourth has piped! Fingers crossed that 1 will be a rooster and the other 3 will be pullets. Hopefully these guys will be mottled
I got silver ginger breeding fawn duckwing to porcelain (which is Millie flour lavender with is a diluting gene), maybe ask Amer or nicalandia on what would be the easiest way to make ginger red duccles. There are tons of people on eBay and Facebook with colors that may be helpful or may even...
My plan for now if to breed my last remaining black mottled hen and brown red hen to my brown red rooster. Both brown reds are split for mottled. I would then only keep black mottled, bearded, vulture hocks and feathered middle toed chicks. Using the rooster and the brown hen will put me a step...
Unfortunately my little boy died. I let him and his friends out of their coop to around the yard a found him dead right beside the door of the coop last night. He did have slime all over his head so Idk if he tried to eat a slug and it suffocated him or it could be completely unrelated. Today...
I’m going based on the larger combs so it’s not a for sure that they are boys, sometimes pullets will develop faster. If they are boys watch for pointed feathers that will come in on their crest, hackles and wings.
Here are pictures of polish cross chicks showing a female then a male based off...