Recent content by Blulaced Damsel

She definitely has or has had mites. I've been battling them for months, still am. I now have elector Maybe a tumor....

This girl has had this nasty looking thing on her neck for at least a month. I thought she just had lost some feathers from a near miss with a hawk until I noticed it was moving around as she walks. It's like a goiter and just kind of wobbles with her movement. It's on the side of her neck, not...

Help! I just went in to collect eggs and all over the eggs in one next were tiny mocroscopic insects! Crawling all over! I took them out, shot a video and then quickly dusted them in a bowl and then dusted the nest, but obviously that's like putting a bandaid on a giant crack in the Hoover...

There were about 10 eggs. I never thought her to be extraordinarily heavy, definitely didn't think she'd crush them since she's been such a diligent mama throughout the sitting period. She is a first timer though... I did move the eggs to the Bator in a hot moist dish cloth. Two were already...

I have eggs hatching today under my broody Marans and two have hatched but she seems to be smothering them and they die! One was just halfway out of it s shell and both chick and egg were smashed, the second was all the way out but I found it also smashed under her this morning... What to do...

This is an amazing account, thank you so much for sharing in such perfect detail. Really- this will come in handy for someone (maybe me?!). Thanks!!

[/IMG] One of my Blue Ice Cream Bars :) It's a Greenfire Isbar rooster (blue) x Reese CL hen. The pic doesn't do her leg color justice- it's really exotic. Oddly, I got one SPLASH ICB! The only white chicken in my whole 50+ (I'm scratching my head on that one..!)

Wait-- do you have MY CHICKEN???? I had the exact same situation- lame RIR hen- she was about 2 years old. Never showed signs of injury just was severely limping one day. I limited her exercise through confinement for a couple of weeks, but that only made the limp barely better. She was a...

The expecting father (22 eggs pipping now!)-- Looks like he's saying, "whatCHOO looking at??!?"

What does the darkness mean?? I have 22 in the incubator and at least 1/2 are dark. Its day 15..... Some are Marans, so they are more difficult to see, but others are blue from CLs

I have offered them finely chopped spinach- and tomato too, they LOVE tomatoes (must be the inviting red color?). Also, I know they say NOT to, but after about a week or 10 days I will toss tiny mealworms in there. I have a box of them that live near the brooder box, so I pick out the smaller...

I have two flocks right now (one ~5 hens, the other ~10). They all mostly grew up together and were coexisting well before we had a "massacre"... Something got about a dozen of them over the course of a couple of days and that's when I locked them in the coop. That was a couple of months ago...

I have two flocks right now (one ~5 hens, the other ~10). They all mostly grew up together and were coexisting well before we had a "massacre"... Something got about a dozen of them over the course of a couple of days and that's when I locked them in the coop. That was a couple of months ago...

I had two of these built for me!!! I love them! One really really important feature that I ended up adding was a hydraulic hinge (quite expensive- almost $30) after my favorite chick was perched on the edge of the brooder and the lid flopped down on her, killing her... so heartbreaking This...

Thank you, both RedBanks and AntFarm for the very kind words. I know Ginger doesn't conform to the standard, but I do love her unique coloring and I don't aim to show. One bird who stands out in their own crowd is bound to get some extra notoriety, for better or worse- and the fact that her egg...