Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[mostin]

Just realised that I don't know what my little Dolly has been bred from. Can anybody tell me?

 

I'm sure it's a really easy question to all you breeders out there.

[Snowy]

The Amber link is from a Rhode island Red male and either a white plymouth rock or white leghorn hen (can't fing out for definite the hen breed, sorry!)

[mostin]

Thank you, I really should have asked when I bought her, but i was so excited, she was so pretty

[Aggienator]

Just realised that I don't know what my little Dolly has been bred from. Can anybody tell me?

 

I'm sure it's a really easy question to all you breeders out there.

 

Hi Mostin,

 

We are still trying to decide which breed to get for our arriving on Friday! We do want a fair supply of eggs, and I think the Amber Link look really pretty. Are they friendly? How well do they lay? Others in the frame are Black Rock or Sussex Star.

 

Thanks Aggie

[The Dogmother]

They are great layers too Mostin.

[ClaireG]

Mine is an excellent layer and very friendly

[mostin]

Hi Mostin,

 

We are still trying to decide which breed to get for our arriving on Friday! We do want a fair supply of eggs, and I think the Amber Link look really pretty. Are they friendly? How well do they lay? Others in the frame are Black Rock or Sussex Star.

 

Thanks Aggie

 

My Amber Link is the friendliest of all my girls, in fact she's a bit of a floozy. She crouches if you so much as glance at her . When she first arrived she was very, very shy but she soon got over that, and will now jump on my knee for cuddles and raisins. She is what I call "my cuddle chicken".

 

She has the most amazing feathers, that seem to self clean after she's had a dust/mud bath, unlike my light sussex who stays brown for a week . She lays really well, probably about 13 eggs every 14 days, but they are pale brown not white, if that's what you were hoping for.

 

In case you haven't guessed, I highly recommend getting one

[craftyhunnypie]

I've got 2 Amber stars (same thing) & yes they are little fusspot floozies too. When we are cleaning the nest boxes in the shed, they are there panicking that they won't be as comfy for laying eggs & that you are invading their space. But they crouch like anything, love cuddles, are very nosey & follow you everywhere. I truly recommend them, along with black rocks.

 

Emma.x

[Aggienator]

They all look gorgeous , but we only really have room for two and read somewhere that it is better to have two the same as they like the company of similar hens. Would you go for two Amber, two Black Rock, or one of each?

[craftyhunnypie]

One of each I would say!

 

Emma.x

[Aggienator]

One of each I would say!

 

Emma.x

 

Thanks, I think that's what we'll do, unless they only have one or other breed when we get our Eglu, in which case we'll be guided by fate

[mostin]

I got one of each at the same time and it worked out fine. Good luck, and post the photos when you get them home please .

[Aggienator]

I got one of each at the same time and it worked out fine. Good luck, and post the photos when you get them home please .

 

It will be a couple of weeks yet I suspect, but you won't escape the pics I can assure you