I want some of these chickens!! :) I'm thinking I may have found my new favorite chicken breed. As soon as I can buy chickens again, I must get some of these lovelies.
Excellent suggestions for a long and narrow coop. I'm trying to revamp ours a bit. It's not quite as long, or as a narrow as yours, but enough to make it challenging.
Is there somewhere that shows a color inheritance for the Wyandotte. I was given a small flock of 6 birds. The roo is mostly white, and the hens are 2 BLG, 2 BLS and another mostly white bird. Of the 10 chicks that hatched, All of them are mostly white, with varied amounts of black. No gold at...
How do the eggs compare to the cream legbar? If I understand correctly they both lay blue eggs, yes? Are the differences primarily in the birds vs. egg or am I missing something obvious?
The Swedish Flower Hens have finally tempted me away from my Speckled Sussex, so now I'm looking around to...
I've had Speckled Sussex for 6 years. I am wanting some of these pretty fierce! It surprises me, because I haven't really felt drawn to a new chicken variety quite like this before. The added bonus is the winter hardiness of these girls, as we live in New England, and that's a plus. So hopefully...
Eggs are cool to the touch, but there's still movement in at least 2 of the eggs. They were 'bonus' eggs from a sneaky second hen...so they could be up to 7 days behind the hatched eggs. Are they saveable? is there some sort of quick and dirty method to incubate them the rest of the unknown...
Wow, what an opportunity! I will be sending you my resume as well. This is certainly an intriguing offer, and I would love to be part of Purely Poultry.