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Yes, we don't free range, have a lot of neighborhood dogs and cats, predators got all the neighbors chickens.

I'm sorry, I am not very good at posting.

Yes, everyone is curious with the new chicks and mama hen seems to be anxious, so it gives the new mama and chicks a chance to just get use to doing what they need to do. After a week mama has settled in to her routine and the chicks have grown some and learned what mama needs to teach them to...

We have been removing new mamas after chicks have hatched before integrating them back in the flock, it gives mama hen and chicks a chance to acclimate, mama to calm down from the stress of a new hatch and the chicks a week to grow and get their balance and use to what mama is teaching them...

We just hatched 9 from out of the refrigerator that had been in there a week or a little longer, all 9 hatched. Had place 4 under one broody and 5 under another, 100% hatch rate. OEGB eggs.

Should have added they had been in the refrigerator for a week or longer.

We just hatched 9 under to broody hens ,OEGB, 5 under one 4 under another, 100% hatch rate.

I didn't make myself understood properly,I'm sorry, I meant to ask is a Self Blue rooster a good addition to anyones flock, is it a good choice of roosters for a breeding program? We have several and are trying to figure out to keep them or not??? All we raise is Old English Game Bantam.

Built 2 grow-out pens for young chicks, chicks raised by mama hen in a coop by themselves, would you leave the pullet chicks with mama and separate the cockerels or separate both the pullets and cockerels, cockerels in one grow out pen and pullets in another when mama weans them? Then introduce...

The truth of it, we could only buy pairs ( pullet/cockerel) from a breeder, so to get 4 pullets we acquired 4 Self Blue cockerels, but in researching and asking questions learned that we could get blacks and Self Blue, was looking for Black, but also in hope for Self Blue pullets? We are Novices...

Right we have 2 paired with hens, but didn't know if Self Blue was a good addition being the carry a recessive gene, they are beautiful birds.

Thank you for the advice, we have been fortunate to find a nice bb red and hope to get some nice chicks from him and our pullets.

I have 4 roosters less than a year old trying to decide if to keep them in the flock or re-home them, are they an asset to the flock?

I think I understand that a self blue to a self blue will be more apt to get self blue and self blue to black more apt to get black. We bred a Self Blue cockerel to a brown red and looks to have gotten all black chicks, still early only hatched this week, but is there and asset to continuing to...

I have 4 roosters less than a year old trying to decide if to keep them in the flock or re-home them, are they an asset to the flock?

Is a Self Blue rooster a good addition to your flock?

Is a Self Blue rooster a good addition to your flock, we have several?