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Two 2.5 year old English Orpington roosters for sale. Will sell together or separately. They get along great and are completely people safe. They have been exposed to strangers and are very good with all humans. They are both black cuckoo carrying chocolate, and are brothers. Sire was black...

Please be aware this drug is NOT APPROVED for chickens in the US. There are no reported withdrawal times. Therefore you cannot sell eggs or meat to anyone. Ever. You can consume the eggs in your own household only. Same with meat. Btw I hate how few drugs have withdrawal info available. But...

Is anyone interested in adding silver grey Dorkings to their flock this year?

Hi @wheezy50. Sorry for the delay in getting back with you. I will have chocolate and chocolate cuckoo English Orps this year if they ever start feeling like breeding. I know what you mean by some having incorrect body type. My current roo is a happy and handsome single barred guy who is from...

People need to be educated that Salmonella is real, potentially deadly, and avoidable. All of us have a duty to make sure our friends and customers are given the information they need. I believe the Indiana State Poultry Association on the Purdue campus has brochures available, or you can print...

Approximately 3-month-old solid chocolate and chocolate cuckoo English Orpington pullets available for sale. $20 each for the chocolates, $25 each for the cuckoos. Below are photos of last year's girls owned by a friend of mine. They are vaccinated against Marek's disease. The sire is from...

Does anyone know if LF Cochins are dominant white or recessive white? I got a Partridge cockerel and a white pullet in an assorted Cochin order. If all I'm going to get are whites (dominant white), then I'll sell them. I was supposed to get two pullets and the refund for my cockerel is coming...

It looks like a lavender Orpington. (a) They have fragile feathers to begin with. Trust me on this. (b) There is a recessive gene on the same chromosome as the lavender gene which causes REALLY REALLY severe feather loss in the tail. If you Google it, you can find old B/W images of it...

We lost our blue English Orp roo Junior recently. He was Cogburn's son and a wonderful boy, not quite as big as Cog but with a better comb. With all the rain, I had been avoiding the chicken yard and he was so fluffy Jay didn't notice until he was seriously ill. Crop impaction AND sour crop...

DH and I did coiffures on everyone's derrieres over the weekend to increase fertility rates. English Orps are so fluffy everywhere, including back there! We're getting good numbers of eggs now so it was definitely time. Cogburn was so concerned about what we were doing. He watched us like a...

@Faraday40, OMG, I pray your sister's doctors figure out the cause of all this and turn things around all the way! Sounds just awful and very scary.

A weasel took one of our chickens a few years ago. We could tell by the "manner of death" using one of the many charts online. Our coop isn't far from both woods and a creek. I have never personally seen one of the varmints in my life, and hope I never do. What they do to poultry (mostly...

@flyladyrocks Your tendon observation is interesting. Different. May need an entirely different approach but I may well not have what's necessary. Keep them fed but this does not sound promising or like "regular" crossbeak, so it could have an unhappy end. PM me, though! Send photos from...

Last post today. I'm having a fairly big deal medical test/procedure tomorrow morning, and will happily accept all well wishes from friends and friends to be. It has been a wicked 2 weeks leading up to it. I'm on almost no pain meds, for the test, and it has been brutal. Hit my max pain...