Hoping someone here can help me with a couple breeding/color combo questions. I want to hatch out for more females since my last hatch was only 4/12 females. I currently have 2 bachelor pads of reserve males and 4 females with 1 male.
Current setup of the breeding cage:
1 italian female
1...
Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to join this community entirely dedicated to our chicken friends!
My name is Alice, and I grew up in a small town near the mountains in Italy.
My parents have always had a small farm where I grew up and where we always had animals, including chickens.
Three...
Babies are 7 days old/just starting to feather. Almost all of them have wild-type striping to some degree, though many have more silvery marks, and few have red/brown.
Possible parents are: Pearl Fee, Italian, Pansy, Pharaoh.
These babies have VERY similar patterning (very faint silvery...
Alright, mixed story I wanna share, and pictures later if nothing goes terribly wrong.
A couple nights ago, our chicks that hatched last Saturday had an accident in their brooder. One of the Italians tried to get on top of the brooder plate by squishing between it and the back wall, but he got...
Hi, a few years ago me and my wife decided to get quail as we have an avid interest in quails and all animals really.
They made amazing companions, so sweet, harmless and therapeutic to be around, they cost barely any money to feed etc, so are perfect all round. Me and my wife built a fantastic...