Recent content by MI_Chkns

I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but wanted to share this experience while it's fresh. I have a splash ameraucana who will be a year old in a couple weeks. She has a severe cross beak and spends all but her days inside so the can take the time to eat in peace of the others. She's only a...

Princess started with an impacted crop turned sour. Found a vet nearby, treated with Nystatin for a week. Gave it another week and she just couldn't clear her crop. Another trip to the vet, this times for x-rays. I was expecting either nothing, or some uncurable disease to show up, but wanted to...

Looking for some advice. I had a girl go broody in one of the next boxes. I left her there to complete the process. The last egg hatched last night and she's doing great. I can't leave them where they are because the others want to box, and it is about 30" off the ground. I plan to move her and...

I didn't think so either, so I disregarded my wing check, even though there are slight differences. I'll add they are 3 days old today and the picture was taken about 10 minutes before it was posted.

So I set 7 eggs from my pullets and 6 hatched (surprisingly) as a test run for my new Nurture Right. 3 ISA brown eggs , and what I believe are 4 Black Australorp eggs. One may possibly be from a RIR, but I'm 90% sure all 4 were from my BA. The Rooster is a Black Australorp. I checked wing...

No editing. I cracked 4 this morning, the only one with a single white dot was from my older ISA (Not much older, she'll be 1 in March). I cracked it after taking the picture just to compare because I was pretty sure it wouldn't be fertilized. Little Jerry seems to stay away from her and her...

Thanks! That's exactly why I'm asking. I'd usually just eat them, but have been thinking about trying my luck and hatching some. Better to learn on my own mutts before I go trying to find some new breeds to add.

Thanks to everyone for the worm welcome. Forgot to mention I'm in SE Michigan. Guess I need to work on my profile a little, He's a good looking dude and I'm planning on keeping him as long as he behaves, if I can. I could grow my own with a rooster. So far he's a big baby, but not quite to...

Hey All, been learning here for a while and finally decided to join. I'll soon be heading in to my second year of chicken stewardship and a lot of you have helped me along the way. Following the "Sample template" for introductions.... I started with 4 hens bought as chicks in March, but ended...