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They don't do well going uphill, I know that. I myself am only at 3000 feet so not all that high for Montana, I am south central.

Let's hope they hatch alright!

halfway across Great Britain is not particularly far. You could fit nearly two Great Britains in just the state I live in, Montana. How many hours would the travel take? :lau

mostly blue, though, very little silver on this one. i still really like how the blue turned out.

yes

I like this pullet

That wierd mottled hen is nearly all white now

That is why I only have 4500 replies in 11 years. I mostly lurk, and usually come out when summoned or I see something interesting.

I tend to just lurk in the background and read everyone else doing stuff.

Finally found these stashed with the turkey nests. Next, I'll have to get them back to their own nests. If there's an egg eater, I'll have to send out dinner invitations, if I find the culprit.

Egg color is a guessing game. While I try hatching from the darkest color, it has been said before that even selecting for dark eggs doesn't guarantee dark eggs. That said, I feel like I have been pretty lucky in keeping pretty dark eggs. I should get a color card, but I have been a bum and not...

I like the hardiness of the Marans. They don't seem to loose their combs in the harsh winter cold as badly as some breeds do. They make good all around chickens, the cockerels make good chicken dinners, although they aren't the best for it, they certainly aren't the worst. I have not had many...

It has warmed up finally, and the sun has come at last, but since it was so dreary for almost 2 weeks, everyone stopped laying! Let's hope the sunshine and nice spring weather gets everyone laying again.

Still, I was wondering about mottling showing up as a random mutation, but that is a pretty rare to have such a mutation just spontaneously appear.

There is some parasitic white, it is more prominent in the original group. The recessive white showed up a few years ago ( I think my husband brought in the blue silver group for me in 2016, the whites came from them, because I realized that the rooster that carried it was blue. The first white...

It is hard to tell. She started out a black silver when she was about a month old, she started getting white feathers. She has since gained more and more white feathers, pure white, not yellowed at all. There is recessive white in the flock, but those usually are hatched white to start. I had...

I wish I knew, that's the hassle with flock housing, she's got 17 neighbors. She is also about as flighty as a wild bird, so I don't catch her on the nest often. Once we get a smaller housing units built I could isolate her and see. I am hatching, but they decided to go on break starting about a...

Remember the wierd mottled pullet from last year? She looks completely different now...