Posts by Gvnam

I've had two chickens (not full grown) start limping. The one started limping about a month ago and after a week it couldn't stand and could hardly move and I ended up shooting it. Last night I had another chicken with the same...

Does anyone have any idea or any pictures of what a Rooster Speckled Sussex x Production Red Hen would look like?   And a Speckled Sussex Roo x Black Sex Link Hen?   I am going to have to rebuild my flock this spring...

I have just sold 3 chickens (2 roosters and 1 hen) so now I have and opening for 3 or so more birds. I have been trying to find some hens around 4 months old but couldnt find any locally. I can only find chicks that were about 1-2...

Sitting out on the porch watching my chicks run around in their coop when a mink comes running out of nowhere and starts attacking the fence. Ran inside and grabbed my .177 1200 FPS pellet rifle and came back outside. The mink was...

Already in the past few days they have begun to change. The white is going away some and coming in with black... I'm hoping they're both pullets!! :/

Well I guess it is the turner! :( Time to go back to hand turning.

My previous hatch I had a 90% hatch rate. This hatch I decided to go out and get an automatic egg turner. It had been working properly, the eggs had all looked great. After the 2nd week I stopped candling.    Yesterday...

There's more/widerspread white on the one than on the other. It isn't as laced. 

Haha, ok. And do you think that since they were sold to me as Pullets I could get my money back in the event of one of them being a roo?

This is my second hatch and my eggs seem to be mostly dead. I collected them on a hot week. I am hatching 41 eggs. And I marked about 20 eggs as questionable or infertile. At the 2 week mark (second time checking) It looked as though a...