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I've had some strange eggs over the years....double yolkers, misshapen body check eggs, no yolk and no shell. But I've never seen anything like this one with a stem?????? It seems like the inner membrane came through an opening in the end of the egg and twisted up. Kinda reminds me of when we...

We are in fogelsville

these are the parent birds of the BLRW. The EE was from auction eggs.

Several birds available 2-3 months old. I have 2 blue BLRW cockerels, 1 splash BLRW cockerel, 1 black EE cockerel and 2 splash BLRW pullets. The photos do not do them justice, especially the EE. He has a good beard/muffs and shines purple/green in the sun. Cockerels are $10 each. If you take...

Back when my husband and I were just dating I used to take my Guinea Pig along when I would stay at his parents for long weekends. Every time I went over his father would ask to hold the GP, heft it up and down a few times, then hand it back and tell me it's not big enough to eat yet. I could...

My grandmother always had siamese cats when I was growing up. When I was little they were very tolerant and even let me dress them up in doll cloth and feed them milk out of a little bottle. They were also very loud, meowing about everything. Meow im in the same room as you! Meow im leaving the...

They are adorable! Great job getting them fixed up. I'm hoping to get goats at some point but I think it is still pretty far in the future. But if I ended up in your situation I think I would have done the same thing. Good luck with them!

I got 6 TSC pullets this spring and they are the friendliest birds I've had yet! I love how excited they get when they see me coming, climbing over each other to be the first one to be let out and petted. One very persistent bird will continue to follow me around, pecking at my shoes and pants...

Two weeks have passed since my first banty chicks hatched. I'm still amazed how tiny they are. The three chicks I brought inside are doing very well. We ended up with 2 Olandsk Dwarf and 1 Serama. I can't wait to see how these guys turn out. Now I have another broody hen...I'm trying to...

After three years of having chickens I had my first broody hen this spring. I know a lot of people try to avoid broody hens but I have not allowed myself to have an incubator (because I know I would be hatching eggs ALL the time) so I saw this as an opportunity to finally hatch some chicks. I...

i got them from a local feed store...not sure what hatchery, possibly hatcheries, they got them from. they have "chick days" where once a year they take a TON of orders then you go and pick up your birds. they are priced really well because so many are ordered at a time. they are all in labeled...

i had put in an order for pullets....hatchery pullets.... 2 EE 2 BLRW 1 russian orloff 1 partridge rock 1 welsummer the blrw, orloff and one of the EE's were guess-able but im not sure which is the partridge rock, wellie and 2nd EE. being hatchery birds i wasnt expecting them to look perfect...