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I just googled silver pencilled hamburg and got onto a website in Aussie called Blue Hills Poultry - they breed silver pencilled Hamburgs, I must say the patterning is similar to a pic where they show a silver pencilled wing stretched out? I guess I will just have to wait and see, will take another ...

Kracka - do you think it is possible that somehow I have ended up with a silver pencilled Hamburg?

yes Kracka, I had the silver Spangled Hamburgs locked up too for three weeks or more before I started incubating the eggs. It has to be a purebred. I have gold pencilled hamburgs too, but everything gets locked up in their individual breeds for the breeding season, apart from that they free - range ...

she started off looking like that but has now developed into what looks like a bizarre black and white patterning. All the other eggs are pure, and this one definitely is too as the chickens were shut away for several weeks, with the rooster before I started taking the eggs for incubation. Maybe whe...

here's something intersting, having had an issue with crawlies on my chickens, not sure whether bought in by purchased birds that had originally been isolated, or from wild birds, it got bad enough for me to notice tht my chickens were looking a little anaemic, so I decided to try something. I wiped...

I have apic of a bird hatched out of two silver spangled hamburgs, it appears to be some sort of throw back, and it is definietly purebred, any ideas? could I show it under AOC Hamburg? Can someone help me to upload a pic please? I have managed to upload it to photo bucket ok, but can't work out how...

I lost almost 100 eggs dues to thunder, hail, lightning, I was told tha tthe thunder and lightning takes the air out of the air sac? not usr if it's true or not, but they were fine until the big storm that hit Ashburton a while ago, nothing survived, had to start again.

on the topic of Brinseas, can anyone give me the ideal humidy for the htchmaker still air Brinsea please? Also while Im on the topic, can anyone tell me if I actualy need to change anything temp or humidity wise on my Brinsea, I have eggs in there all diff dates, so if I just leave it at the normal ...

sadly he just faded away until we had to deal with him in a humane way, not sure what it was def not any creepy rawlies, but he literally just faded away to almost nothing, it's very strange. Fortunately I managed to breed some lovely chickens from him this season, they are all fine and doing well.

Hi Valleygirl, I too have Araucanas, and I'm getting some intersting results from breeding what I thought were Lavender Araucanas. the first season (last year) produced two black hens (with brown fronts) and a lovely black rooster. I understand the black hens with brown fronts are called "splas...

Hi there, Can anyone post up apic of a young black Hamburg chicken please? I have ended up with about 4 I think (which Im happy about) in with some Gold Spangled Hamburg eggs bought down from up north, the lady had both breeds, I ned to make sure these are pure and it's a bit hard to tell (apart fro...

he doesnt appear to have mites at all, but he just stands there and lets another Minorca hen peck out his feathers, he is losing weight, doesn't seem interested in food but he did enjoy some dog roll, he is quite thin, his comb has flopped over whereas when i got him it was lovely and upright, not a...

I do't know of any up there, but I breed both golds and silvers, have bred almost 30 chicks - gold this season, and 7 silvers, two of which are sold. so I have some golds available for sale if anyone wants to buy some, some are a bit young yet although they are free ranging outside now.

I had this exact same issue with a little silver spangled hamburg chick, and eventually she did die - of Mareks I think, exactly the same symptoms sorry to say...

Hi everyone, the new poultry standards are out now and I took delivery of mine at the Christmas BBQ for the Ashburton Fanciers club yesterday, they are awesome - I got the ring binder variety.