Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

ok so due to some mishaps with some predators I am left with a lovely Mottled Java Roo (the one no one picked..he is hansome!) and no hens. I have...

The chicks are coming! The chicks are coming! Yaaaay! :stars:

Uhmm, wait a minute, I'm a grown man, what I meant to say is, so yah I think some...

has anyone bred Lf to bantam? does it work and what sizes would the babys be? i would be wanting them to stay small as a bantam but hope some of the...

On Thursday evening we had a crazy crazy storm. Our power went out around 7:30 pm until 1:30 am. My chicks are due Monday. I covered the incubator...

I bought Welsummer eggs at an auction, it was at the end so I got them for $3 per dozen. I thought the guy said 3 dozen so I took them all, it was...

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Today I finally got an egg from one of my new bantams! For the last week two of the new bantams were making nice nests but no eggs....

Inquiring minds need to know, if you are willing to share,
How many?
What breeds?
How many for yourself?
How many for sale?
Incubator or a broody hen?

I've recently acquired a pair of Pomeranian pouter pigeons. I've kept them in a cage separate from my other birds for quarantine purposes. I have had...

OK so got to thinking. Don't know if I got this right. 2 colours of eggs white and blue. Brown is a wash over the white and green is brown over blue?...

I am in business, today both little hens laid an egg, it was exciting to see Hillary standing in line waiting for Monica to finish, :laying egg:...

With the year of the Rooster now upon us....so is the new hatching season.
It has begun!
My test hatch showed excellent fertility!
I hope to hatch...

I am way behind this year but oh well, I figure I won't have to brood them in my shower this year! So this afternoon and tonight I would like to set...

I'm thinking about spring and to be honest, I have no desire to hatch anything. The trio I have are the worst layers I ever owned. One egg every 3...

Poultry princess post inspire me, we haven't visited this subject in a while.
This is the time of the year when decisions are made on how many chicks...

The last couple of weeks I have been getting eggs from my little bantams, they kept laying them on the wall plate and cracking them but now I finally...

At least I think It's F 4, hard not to think I have a couple of extra F's in there, I could have done without. ;)
The original goal was to outcross...

throw science and logic aside, if you could magically have any new phenotype in chickens what would you want?!
new colouration, comb type or colour,...

So I have read that I may need to trim or pluck some butt feathers from my Cochins in order to ensure fertile eggs. Liza laid her first 2 eggs this...

Hey lady! Hahaha, yeah you know who you are! What if I had red sex-link hens and a white Chantecler rooster . Would the chicks all be white when they...

I just separated my bielefelders from the rest of my flock into their own coop, I have 3 hens and a rooster, just wondering how the breeding process...

Finally, after several years of waiting for my mille's to go broody I have one of my girls sitting on a small clutch of eggs. I have not had much...

If anyone is doing a chick order for Murray McMurray hatchery and would like someone to order chicks with I would add to an order. I don't have time...

So I've beer perusing the idea of ordering birds from this hatchery. The chicks would be flown into Ottawa by Westjet. Shipping price is based on...