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On May 6-7 I hatched 27 eggs and ended up with approximately 20 cockerels. They're all nice friendly boys. All but one are olive eggers, a combination of Welsummer (very dark eggs), true Ameraucana and Cream Legbar. One is 3/4 Delaware and 1/4 Welsummer, he looks like a Delaware to me and will...

I've lost two hens this week and one more looks sick. A necropsy was done today and the initial report is crop stasis and impaction. The only good news is that something contagious isn't going around my flock. I'm hoping they will tell me what the impaction was, I'm guessing the grass hay I...

Hi All I've got eggs hatching right now! The rooster is a splash true Ameraucana from Whitmore Farm. The eggs are from a blue true Ameraucana hen and a Welsummer hen. So far three Ameraucanas have hatched and they're all splash and the Welsummer cross is black. When I looked this cross up on...

Found this white stuff outside my coop this morning, in several places. Lines of white stuff... and from what I can see online, hawks shoot their poop out in a projectile line. But I couldn't find any pics of what it looks like on the ground. If it is, is there anything I can do to keep them...

Hi All I've got BBS Ameraucanas, the blue and splash birds' feathers are starting to fade to brown from the sun. Does this also happen in Lavender colored chickens, most specifically Ameraucanas? I love the blue color but I'm not as happy now that they're turning brownish. The girl in my...

Hi all, I have four cream legbars that have been laying for a little over two months. Their eggs are still small, the size of pullet eggs. Greenfire Farms says the cream legbar egg size can be misleading since the diameter of the eggs can be larger than other breeds, but mine aren't. They're...

Hi All I have a splash true Ameraucana rooster from a breeder and am wondering what the chicks would look like if crossed with an ISA Brown hen. The chicken calculator says all the chicks will be blue, am I reading that right? Also hoping that the pea comb, muffs and beard are dominant. My...

I had two unrelated Welsummer roosters and lost one a little over three weeks ago. I quickly put his girls' eggs in the incubator and this little one is the only boy that hatched, so I'd really like to save him. I had rubbery shelf liner in the incubator and he's been on paper towels in the...

Hi All I'm thinking of hatching eggs from my Welsummer rooster and Cream Legbar pullets. Both came from lines that were autosexed at hatch. Will the new chicks also be that way since both breeds have similar coloring? Thanks :)

This was my first time hatching eggs, I used true Ameraucana eggs from my flock. My incubator is a Brinsea Mini Advance which I set with 7 eggs. Yesterday on day 22 four chicks hatched. This morning I float tested the three remaining. One was bad, I candled it to make sure and it's been...

Hi All I'm thinking of crossing my Welsummer roo with a Delaware hen, hoping to get red sex links according to this http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/2/2e/2eb469e7_13371_sexlinkedredr.jpeg chart. Does anyone have pics of day old chicks of this cross? Thanks!

Hi everyone New member from Kentucky here! I've been lurking on the forums for months and decided it's time to join. In June I got day old chicks from Whitmore Farm. Now I've got 18 chickens: 13 Welsummers who have started laying wonderful dark brown eggs, 1 Delaware who lays almost an egg a...