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She's a cutie, Bossy Bantams! She looks quite young there still, has she started laying yet?

Thanks Poularde, I'll use the time to study and plan. I'm the kind of person that has to go to the school of hard knocks anyway and had to see what's out there. One of the things I'm wondering is how many acres would be required to isolate the sound sufficiently? LOL.. I really hope you're...

You can try exop in Indiana, she has very good stock and may have older chicks available. Really, it's either her or Duane Urch, if you want quality chickens to breed. And Duane is in Michigan, I believe. I do hope you take them on!

I'm sorry, what are NN's? I get so confused with abbreviations! She is a cutie, hstave! Looks like a happy little girl! Is she getting along with the rest of your flock? On a very very sad note, I'm devastated because our neighbor was so angry at hearing the birds, he came down and...

popping in to report that these chicks have ridiculous crests, they don't flow back. Also, as Poularde pointed out, the beaks and feet are not getting better. I thought my Ideal birds looked similar when they were babies, but not at this age, and I think the old pictures show they weren't as...

Update on McMurray Crevecoeur chicks :) They have REALLY Polish looking crests! They act like Creves, in that from the first moment they came here, they were curious and adventurous, and seemed rather intelligent, but those crests are....no! A few of them have more controlled crests...

I know, it's so hard in the city. I'm designing a sound reduced coop right now. I hope it will work so I can put the boys outside. It has to be better than the kitchen or I won't put them in it. They are stuck in the Kitchen most of the day because it isolates their crows a bit, and my...

LOL, my babies are hitting that ugly phase! " What? It's my eyebrows!" "I"m not a chicken, I'm an Ostrich!" Actually, I'm a little worried the way those crests are coming in. The other birds I have had their crest come in Mohawk style, centered and they bloomed out from that point...

Thank you, I got 10 pullets. I ordered 15, but they didn't have enough hatch. One got killed because Belina is a klutz and stepped on it full force the first day, it never recovered. She's made up for it since though, being a good mama to the rest. I'll be keeping 3 of them. Boy, one of...

poking in to report, and now this is not subjective (is subjective, LOL), I could be biased, but it seems this McMurray batch of pullets have more heft to them (though I've been feeding them extra scrambled eggs, and a bit of olive oil in their feed (I also make it a bit wet, because I find less...

Here is a comparison of my Ideal chicks that I got in October 2012 and my McMurray chicks I got about 2 weeks ago. These are my Ideal chicks when they arrived. There is a lot more white on their bellies and their skull protrubance wasn't as large, I don't think. Here is another picture...

Ah, nice!. I've got to check them out ;-). . Have you weighed your boy yet? My boy is extremely small, he's from Ideal and was the largest bird. At 9 months old, he's just over 4 lbs! Anyway, I do have some chicks growing out from him under the most optimal conditions and they do seem to be...

He really is good looking, could you share where you got him?

Aww, he's handsome! Does it get hot in Albuquerque? My son is hiking at Philmont with the boy scouts right now :) (N/E of Sante Fe) It's his second time, the first time, 4 years ago, made him addicted to hiking, LOL. Anyway, your boy is handsome, how old is he?

Hi, thank you :) It's so hard to take pictures of a moving target! LOL Poor boy has such a diaper butt too :( He's such a love though!

Yes, he looks like one. Can't tell all of his points, so I can't say how well he matches the SOP, but in the USA, most black polish looking birds would be Crevecoeurs as black isn't a recognized color for Polish. However, it could be more in type of a polish when it grows out?? Or he could fit...

It grows slowly. You'll see it, I believe if I remember correctly, by the 14th week. It grows bigger as they get older, but for females, it doesn't show up for quite some time. Closer to laying age, and is quite small usually. You should see larger wattles on males, but you have nothing to...

Awww, he's so sweet! Nice crest there, are you sure it's a boy? Where did you get him? I got mine at Ideal poultry. I made the mistake of giving the one boy with perfect red earlobes away. I didn't know he would grow out like that, but I visited him and his earlobes ended up with no white...

Well, Belina's eggs are distinctly different from the leghorn eggs. They're smaller and have a creamier hue to them. It's possible I allowed one of the leghorn eggs to hatch, but I don't think so as all the chicks look alike and show no sign of odd combs. However, these are hatchery chicks...

Well, my oldest chicks are a little over 4 weeks old and it looks like 1 of the 3 is a boy (so my vent sexing was incorrect) He has slightly red wattles up under his chin, though they're not sticking out much, the other two, which are 1 and 3 days older than him have no sign of color. The two...