Recent content by Falconfree

Reading the description from My Pet Chicken, it sounds like bantam EEs lay green, blue, etc. egg colors just like their standard counterparts. Today I was checking out the new chicks at the feed store, and the employee told me Easter Egger bantams lay white eggs. He said lots of people say...

Oh, and we finally actually electrified the electronet the chickens live in, and nobody has flown over the top since. It hasn't been long enough to say the problem is solved, but I'm hoping they've gotten it through their heads that they need to stay away from the fence.

He's a Border Collie (I have 2). I don't see him actually ever learning to where I can trust him at all. He actually isn't interested in the chickens hardly at all unless they are flapping wildly by his face. He has issues with self control and reactivity to movement. It sucks, and affects...

I know the pictures don't help much. They are on her back and side, close to one wing. At least one puncture looks quite deep (the top photo). The other one is more of a wide gash. It's like, well, like she was flayed open maybe 1/2 to possibly 1 inch deep, about 3-4 or so inches wide under her...

No poultry vets at all around here. Even our dog/cat vets aren't super. This is the 2nd chicken my dog has attacked, the other one was dead when I found her. Since then I put up an electronet, but sometimes the girls fly over the top. I always check before letting the dogs out, never thought...

I already know what I have to do, she's not moving much at all, but it's a first for me. Sick to my stomach. My poor girl. And now I'm second guessing myself. She's up and walking a little, alert. Nothing appears broken when she walks, so I suppose it is just a question of internal damage. It...

Thank you so much! I very much appreciate all the advice, it is absolutely invaluable. I'll be doing this full time, in addition to my little Etsy/local business. Thankfully, I worked in a couple different barns growing up, partly to make my horse hobby a little cheaper, so I'm eyes wide open on...

I'm going to just jump in here and say hi everybody! We have a mini-homestead here on slightly less than a quarter of an acre with veggies in raised bed gardens (that are largely unsuccessful... but I'm learning), 4 hens, and a few fruit trees. The really exciting thing is that my parents made...

My about 8-9 month probably old mixed breed hen has only missed 1 day since she started laying a few months back. Suddenly she hasn't laid for 4 days straight. I haven't noticed her losing any feathers, though the 3 younger hens (who haven't started laying yet, 3 months old) are losing feathers...

They are 17 weeks old. I sure hope she ends up being a hen, guess we'll just have to see if eggs start showing up from her. She's so different, behaviorally, from the two roos we had. She never makes a noise (unlike Belle who talks to me the entire time I'm outside, lol), is super skittish, and...

Fun! Thanks everyone. :)

The second one was the Isa Brown. Bahahahaha. That farmer...

I have a couple hens (I'm pretty sure, the 2 roosters have already met the processor) and I'm wondering what breed they are? The old farmer sold them to me as a Buff Orpington and an Isa Brown, but he also sold me a Dom that ended up being a mixed breed roo. :) Appreciate any help! Tell me if I...

Just wanted to say that the people at Johnston's are exceptionally nice. I've never had them process anything for me (yet, though we have a couple surprise roosters that they might be seeing, if they process birds), but we used to shop there every now and then when we lived in Tally. All very...

Of course, like a legitimate dog breeder versus a backyard breeder. I just don't have the chicken knowledge to tell them apart yet. :/ I've actually been skeptical ever since picking them up, because he feather sexed them in front of me. Then I found out feather sexing only works on certain...