Thanks. I love my black Orpington hen the most and i felt we have a very personal connection, i treat her like my own child, and there's no way i can give her up. But i can give up on all my other hens.
I have four hens in total and no rosters. My black orpington ( i believe she is the head of the flock) is about 1.5 years old, she hasn't been laying for approx 3 month. One day i saw her mounting another araucana hen( like doing the real thing), i was shocked. My husband told me he has seen...
I feel my button quail are very shy and not get use to human contact. They will freak out even I just change their water. I collect my eggs once a while, every time after I took their eggs away, they will not lay again until they clam down a week later or even longer. They are also very flighty...
I was going to change my quail breed to larger quail. So I decided to sell my button quail and buy more Jp quail. I purchased my first male Jp quail for $1( someone wants to rehome him). Now I realized why... He could not stop crowing at night... If I put him together with other quails. He will...
I have a male JP quail, he could not stop crowing at night, 2am, 3am, 4am.....so i thought he is lonely and i put him together with two female button quails( at that time i don't have any female JP quails). He stopped crowing...so good i can sleep at night...However, one day i came back from...
Hi everyone, I need some help and advise here. I am new to hatching eggs, and so does my hen. I don't have a rooster so I bought some hatching eggs to put under one of my broody hen. After a long wait of 20 days, here is what I see today when I came back from work. I see a little whole, and can...
hi there, i live in Auckland. This is my little Orpington boy, unfortunately I have to re-home him, I was in tears for two days....Wish the council could change their rules...so I can keep him
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I need some help here, I am a beginner for back yard chickens. Recently I found out two of my girls have some black patches on their wattle, my little Orpington girl only just start to develop wattle. I did some research and think could it be fowl pox?? we have wild birds and pigeons...
I have two groups of chickens. The first group are two Orpington(brother and sister), the second group are three Australorp & Australorp X. I live in the city and the local city council does not allow have roosters, so I found a new home for my Orpington boy.
After the depart of my Orpington...