Posts by Slike

I need to find a home for my pet rooster Cricket. I got him from a hatchery some years ago  when he was a couple days old. He is a beardless, big-eyed, attention-loving Silkie rooster. We are moving soon and cannot bring him, so...

Same as karlamaria, my chickens (turkeys, too) appear to love venturing into the garden to feast on the tomato's leaves. While it may indeed have some cumulative toxicity to them, they do this every year and I've not observed any...

Here's a video of some SLW chicks (standards) I hatched last year. Pardon the extraordinarily shoddy camerawork. With the angle of the sun being what it was, I couldn't see much of anything through the viewfinder while filming. The...

My brats enjoyed some blackberry cobbler, watermelon rinds, a fistful of small plums, blackberries and banana.

I won't rule out everything else, but from the information you've provided this sounds like vitamin E deficiency. I've had several breeds of chick, all hatched the same day, eating the same stuff and sometimes there will be one that...

It depends entirely upon the species of moth. By default, moths are not inherently poisonous. For example, I feed the chicks, keets and our turkey poults every Plodia interpunctella (grain moth) I kill, and the currents babies are...

Have you observed him dirtbathing?   I would check him thoroughly for any sign of mites. Lift his feathers and check especially well around his butt bluff, saddle (the tassely feathers on his lower back), under-wing fluff,...

I am hoping someone can tell me what these color variations are called, or if they are simply happy "mistakes".     ^Acki has some very faint goldish linings to those dark neck feathers that don't show so well...

I have 2 grown white guineas for sale, 15$ each. Both are about 6-7 months old and were raised together. I am absolutely not willing to ship. I will meet to sell around the Santa Rosa area, north of SF. If you'd like to buy from...

Let me know if any of these are of interest. I have a lot more bronze feathers, but my camera battery is charging currently. I can get more photos if you'd like to see them. I have many different lengths and shapes.It doesn't show well...