Hi guys!
My lovely Silkie girl Jaffa just hatched shipped Araucana eggs. 6 were under, 4 are out and about, 1 didn't hatch and other chick died after hatch for some reason. Hopefully will be at least 1 hen to cross with my silkie boy 😃.. looks like different coloured variety 🤔 it's cold here...
Hi all! I'm looking at getting blue egg laying silkie cross Araucana eggs, hatch them, then cross back a hen to silkie rooster, would they still lay blue eggs but have more silkie fluffy feathering?
I have 4 broodies currently, I bought a dozen Double Laced gold barnevelder eggs for them to hatch 🐣 I haven't had other breeds before but hopefully they'll grow up and all get along. I don't plan to keep Barnie boys.
I'm wondering what a Barnie cross Silkie would be like 🤔
Hi everyone, it's been a very long time since I popped onto byc! I've had a baby so not much time for anything lately ☺️
I've reduced back my flock to 15 chickens now for a more manageable number, still having a few go broody even though it's winter here, so many eggs too! It's like they don't...
This one really has got me guessing! ..updated pics... That tail 🤔 hardly any wattles and smallish comb still.. feet aren't thick.. but crest 🤔 .. what do you guys think?
My rooster Popcorn is not bearded is he? So doesn't produce the full fluffy crested babies but instead clean face / non bearded? .. I'm so silly I sold my beautiful fluffy cockerel Pumpkin 😩 surely he would have produced better fluffy crested bearded offspring 🤔
Popcorn..
..Pumpkin ...
All my flock is in together, old and young. Queen Chickaletta is 12 years old and he still grabs her even though she has always been queen and respected by all the chickens, he has no respect for her 😞 she's too old for stress!
Biscuit does chase off Popcorn, so most hens stick close to him to...
What do you all think of a rooster who chases hens and grabs them to mate against their will?
.. Popcorn is about a year old now and still doing that.
I have 16 hens between my 2 roosters and Biscuit my main rooster is always good to hens and people but doesn't fertilise (does mate but not...
Poor girl moulting 😞 how long does it usually take for feathers to grow back? I've never had one this bad before! ..maybe my rooster is mating her too much as well as she's moulting?
My friend sent me a closer pic.. still looking girly I think!? Looks like a single comb too, they do pop up every now and again 🤔
And this is the boy.. absolutely certainly a boy! 😅 .. another single comb too 🤔