Category Archives: breeding chickens
It’s Go Time!
This is going to be big! Time to start a new farm! Inviting you all to come with me!
An Invitation to Come on a New Journey
The death of Rindle Ridge Farm beckons the birth of a new larger idea – and a request for help.
A Tale of Too Many Roosters
Sometimes when you volunteer to do a good deed you end up with a coop full of roosters…
Marans & Basque Hens
Well our incubator spiked at 103 for six hours… Was sure that the whole incubator got fried, and two and a half of the drawers indeed did (we lost half the bantams we were incubating as a favor, the Dorking, and the Brabanter drawer.) Despite this over 30 Marans hatched! I will be keeping them …
Chocolate Colored Egg Madness
In January I wanted to bring on some more Welsummers (as I needed a good rooster) some Rhode Island Whites to make sex links out of, and some Marans for chocolate eggs which I could also cross to the legbars to make olive eggers. People seem to love getting weird colored eggs. It’s a real …
The Long Wait for Barnevelders
When we first got into chickens I wanted Barnevelders. They’re a Dutch breed and they laid big dark eggs and had a pretty lacing pattern. I had bought some eggs and they were some of the first birds I hatched — but they died of Marek’s not long after that. This was on the old …
The Mille Fleur Leghorn Search & Result
I wanted some pretty egg laying machines to add to my laying flock after eating egg sales started to surpass expectation. To keep up with demand I needed something stellar – I needed some leghorns. The thing is I don’t really like leghorns. They’re usually all white birds who do well in heat but not …
Plans for Spring Hatching
Well, we will be setting everyone up in breeding pens this weekend if all goes right which means in a few weeks we will be collecting eggs for hatching of the following breeds: Gold Brabanter Silver Gray Dorking Heritage Rhode Island Red (Rose-Comb) Silver Penciled Rocks Cream Legbars Seramas (frizzled and smooth) Experimental Sex-Links (RIR …
Brabanter Roosters are THE WORST
A mob of roosters terrorizes a barnyard and drives their owner nuts in the process!
So how tiny IS a day old serama chick?
This tiny! (Yes, I’m sitting here brainstorming everyday objects to photograph little Mighty with as my boyfriend mucks about with making a UFO – long story there!) First up – An ordinary Milk Bone. Second up – a spoon. I thought this one would be more impressive… I call it chick in a …
Tales from the Birdello 