Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I'm pretty sure I've got 7M-5F out of the dozen hatched so far (all back yard/heritage types), but I lucked out earlier this spring when my 5 straight run Blue Ameraucana all turned out to be girls!!!

But Blackbeard has her own ideas. She disappeared a few days ago so I assumed that damn fox got her. She showed up Saturday morning, all fluffed up, growling and attacking the other hens. Oh boy....more babies. Perhaps I should mention the fact that I already had 3 broodies out of 6 hens... make tha...

So far so good! Everyone has made it home safe and sound the past 2 days. Maybe it was just passing through...not likely though.

I saw him this morning, not 20 feet from my henhouse! Tall and lanky and healthy looking (or should I say hungry looking?). I thought we took care of him...last time we saw him was May. I have 13 chicks with 3 broodies right now, as well as a rooster, 5 juviniles, and 3 other hens and they all free ...

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I bought 5 straight run blue Ameraucana chicks, which at 3.5 months still all seem to be girls! Woohoo! But....here's the kicker...one has definite green between her toes which means yellow skin. Yellow skin is a disqualification in showing, and means they are really poorly bred or not pure Amerauca...

I have 8 chicks hatched from my mixed breed flock my rooster looks RIR/Marans with lightly feathered feet while the hens are just pretty, though all came from the same breeder. (Grey/blue has rose comb, white splash, light red/cream, medium red, black, double-laced light brown all have single comb) ...

I've had chicks hatch at home before but I've always let Momma hen and nature take its course. Bluebell hatched 1 egg last Wednesday and another Friday and then she was done. Took her 2 babies and left the last 2 eggs. Saturday noon i decided to throw out the non viable eggs that she left and as im ...

Glad she made it home! Peach got lost during the first snowfall last year. It was bitter cold and blowing. I checked everywhere and finally gave up...but couldnt just leave her so went back down an hour later, in the pitch black with my headlamp. Finally found her about 15ft from the coop, huddled i...

Name them after breeds of chickens! Serama, Brahma, Cochin, etc....nobody except chicken people would ever know where those unique names came from! lol