Rare Breed Chickens Website by Eni

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Chicken Breeding

Breeding flocks If you want your chickens to have chicks you need to choose a good, healthy breeding flock. You should choose birds that are 100% healthy. Their feathers should be shiny and smooth, they should have clear eyes and nostrils. The maximum number of hens you can have with one cock depends on the breed. . With big placid breeds like Brahmas you can normally keep two to five hens with one cock With a light, slender, very active cock you can keep up to ten hens. Fertilization All... [Read more]

My experiences

Sunday 27th December 2009 I read that if you cross a gold cockerel with a silver hen the chick will be gold if its a hen and silver if its a cock. Elphan Elvis our gold partridge Dutch bantam was crossed with silver star our silver Dutch hen before we knew they had CRD. and the offspring was a gold hen and a silver cock. the silver cock was called silver shadow. I compared a photo of a silver partridge cock and a yellow partridge and realized silver shadow was a yellow partridge... [Read more]

Diseases

DISEASES AVOIDING DISEASED CHICKENS · Clean out BEFORE necessary. · Disinfect house regularly. · Dose chickens in louse and mite powder every month. * · sufficient ventilation in the hen house is important. · Take all food that has not been eaten out of the coop every day. · Have birds vaccinated against incurable diseases if vaccine exists. · Feed well balanced diet. · Keep feed in a cool dry place in a closed bin. · Prevent your birds getting stressed. · Do not keep growers... [Read more]

Chicken fancier Mecca – National Poultry Show Stoneleigh

One of the most important dates on the calendar of Chicken fanciers and other poultry keeper is the national poultry show organised by the poultry club of Great Britain. This years poultry show takes place on Saturday 28th of November at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Apart from the fact that you will have the opportunity to see over 5,000 birds, there will be stalls selling chickens of various shapes, sizes and breeds and poultry equipment and accessories... [Read more]

Wyandotte Chickens

Gold Lace Pullet Wyandotte Cockerel If you are a novice in raising chickens, then it is advised that you go for Wyandotte’s chicken breed. They are both attractive and they have excellent egg producing capabilities. A fully grown Wyandotte chicken weighs 3kg ( 6 and a half pounds). The bantam variety of the Wyandotte breed is smaller than the large Wyandotte and weighs thirty to forty percent less. This breed comes in varied colours, some of which are partridge, blue, black, buff... [Read more]

Dutch Bantams

Dutch Bantam The Dutch Bantam is a desired, ornamental breed kept by many chicken fanciers. ‘Bantam’ is the wrong name because the Dutch are one of the few true miniatures as they are not a diminutive form of large fowl. These upright proud little birds originated from the Netherlands. Recent DNA tests showed that Drente and Friesian fowl played a great part in the Dutch’s creation. They have a single well-serrated comb and the wings are long and carried close to the body.... [Read more]