Category: ebitz

Chicken Identification – here’s Ebitz – the starlight green egger Hoover Hatchery

Melba the cuckoo maran rooster, tops the scale of our chicken flock weighing in at 3# .9 ounces. Compare that to Ebitz at a 1# .3oz, and Little big Bird at 2.0 ounces, and Tiny, our tiniest bantam weighing .7 ounces (smaller than a 1 ounce silver coin). That’s pretty…

She is one of the prettiest and softest pullet chicks we have in the group. She’s becoming more friendly/sitting and being cuddled by us. White Leghorn Years ago a small amazingly productive chicken breed was imported from Italy through the port of Livorno. “Leghorn” became the Anglicized word for that…

She was a tiny little white fluff in a mix of other chicks. Of course she had to come home with us. We’re not sure what she is, though she is getting the faintest hint of greys in her feathering – perhaps she is an isa brown? itty bitty ebitz…