Recent content by Gvnam

I've had two chickens (not full grown) start limping. The one started limping about a month ago and after a week it couldn't stand and could hardly move and I ended up shooting it. Last night I had another chicken with the same problem. I ended up having to shoot it too. Could this be a...

Does anyone have any idea or any pictures of what a Rooster Speckled Sussex x Production Red Hen would look like? And a Speckled Sussex Roo x Black Sex Link Hen? I am going to have to rebuild my flock this spring and have a young roo (or 2) to help with the process and was curious about the...

I have just sold 3 chickens (2 roosters and 1 hen) so now I have and opening for 3 or so more birds. I have been trying to find some hens around 4 months old but couldnt find any locally. I can only find chicks that were about 1-2 months old. I am wondering if I could perhaps put these chicks...

Sitting out on the porch watching my chicks run around in their coop when a mink comes running out of nowhere and starts attacking the fence. Ran inside and grabbed my .177 1200 FPS pellet rifle and came back outside. The mink was nowhere in sight. Went and got the live trap out. Shot a ground...

Already in the past few days they have begun to change. The white is going away some and coming in with black... I'm hoping they're both pullets!! :/

Well I guess it is the turner! :( Time to go back to hand turning.

My previous hatch I had a 90% hatch rate. This hatch I decided to go out and get an automatic egg turner. It had been working properly, the eggs had all looked great. After the 2nd week I stopped candling. Yesterday was the hatch date. After not hearing any noises from the eggs or eggs...

There's more/widerspread white on the one than on the other. It isn't as laced.

Haha, ok. And do you think that since they were sold to me as Pullets I could get my money back in the event of one of them being a roo?

This is my second hatch and my eggs seem to be mostly dead. I collected them on a hot week. I am hatching 41 eggs. And I marked about 20 eggs as questionable or infertile. At the 2 week mark (second time checking) It looked as though a lot of them died off at 1 week. They should be hatching...

Bought two silver laced wyandottes (and 1 speckled sussex) as pullets from the feed store. Been a month or so now and one of the silver laced is getting a longer tail and redder comb... Please tell me Gracey is not a rooster. We already have 1 rooster and if it is we will have to get rid of...

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