Recent content by MontanaChickDoc

Goodness no! I want my birds to have plenty of room...

https://hatchingtime.com/collections/quail-cages/products/quail-cage-2-layer?variant=43028965359794 My husband is sick of helping me build bird enclosures (completely understandable) and I am a really crappy builder by myself. I was thinking about getting the Hatching Time fully ready to go...

Birds are tough, even wee little quail. With your patient care I am optimistic for a full recovery!

Never ever buy birds that already look sick or unhealthy in any way, especially if the place where you're getting them looks dirty. I'm sorry you had to experience this but glad you found a vet that could help.

I agree my teeny Phoenix hen and my Spitz hen are the smartest. Dumbest by far are polish and the Pavlovskaya. Maybe the crests suck the brains out of them.

The person I have ordered from in the past is no longer in the chicken business. Any recommendations for a good source of birds or hatching eggs? Thanks in advance 😁

I just ordered from Welp. I have never used them before but I really want NN and they are the only hatchery that I can find that has them available before May. I will let you know how it goes! 10 NN, 5 EE, 5 OE and 5 blue copper marans. 25 chick minimum on orders, and if you get "spring sale"...

No I sold him soon after this post.

I had a duck who suddenly had a limp leg. I assume it was a nerve injury as she was not painful. She could use it but it was really weak and she couldn't stand or walk. We splinted it and did bathtub water therapy. It took a couple of weeks but she healed completely. So you might try physical...

Here is one of the others, more obviously male.

I think he's a he too, but that is 100 % red dirt. I got 3EEs at a Tractor Supply parking lot chicken swap. All males apparently. I wonder if the seller knew something I didn't! At least the OE I got is a pullet. And too bad the chicks I got from Meyers Poultry in Nov had 2 cockerels out of 20...

Oh, that's mud. We live in VA, red clay abounds here! All the hens have red backs right now where the roosters mount them. These young guys climb all over each other at meal times.

10 weeks old. Suspect male but not as obvious as the other I have. Seems to have a 2 row pea comb. Large thick legs and suspicious watchful attitude. But no hackle or saddle feathers.

These are mature layers, 1-4 years old. I just can't afford to feed 70 hens through the winter with no return! I know I'm just shortening their laying longevity but if they get eaten by predators - which is not uncommon in our rural setting - then it doesn't really matter if I "save" their ova...

Are you finding the eggs just beneath the roost? Are they normal appearing otherwise? I had a hen with "poor sphincter tone" and the act of jumping onto the roost released her egg prematurely into the shavings below. I called her "egg-continent" :P She would also just randomly lay an egg in the...