Recent content by Laigaie

Anybody breeding Calls in the AR/OK/MO intersection area? I'm in NW AR and having trouble finding anybody willing to either sell me a drake or trade me drakes for a hen.

How did this turn out? My assumption would be that your Goose has a lovely wild migrant lover. Did they candle?

It's not uncommon in chooks with silkie blood in them. :/ But there's not a variety of oe (that I know of, anyway) that's supposed to have it.

Just found out yesterday that the cockerel we got as a chick from Tractor Supply appears to be a quail d'Anver! The wife is insistent that we keep him, but I'm having trouble finding anyone with pullets available. Surely someone else lucked out and got a pullet chick from them, but I guess they...

Sounds like you need to find another poultry auction or swap for him, then.

A little over a month ago, I acquired a black-and-white OEGB rooster. We keep our LF separate from our bantams, and were hoping to get more OEGBs out of him and our wee little crele OEGB hen. He's at the end of his quarantine, and I'm still a little stumped on a few things: Our bantams are...

I recently acquired an OEGB rooster, and he's been in quarantine. He was not kept in good condition at his previous home, and had nails in dire need of trimming, plus he was very dirty, so he got a thorough bath. All the same, we discovered today that he has a terrible infestation of lice. Since...

Some types of lice hatch in as little as four days, so repeat treatments are most useful at that interval. That said, frontline probably does not require frequent retreatment the way a spray or powder would.

I've never seen a chicken do it, but I've seen wild birds dust themselves in my fire ant mounds. I asked an old-timer birdwatcher at church about it, and she said they're getting the fire ants to kill the mites on them. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, it could be why your chicken was...

Yup! Your so-called "Black Star" is actually an EE, though your SLW looks good! Mine lays pretty pale tan eggs, so I'm glad to hear you're getting a heartier color.

Avoiding corn? Get flax or put flax oil on BOSS. They's probably rather have BOSS anyway.