Recent content by purplechicken7

Hello! I’m located in North Carolina, USA, and I am wanting to become NPIP certified. I just ordered chicks and they came with NPIP certification under the hatchery. When would I need to have a technician come out and certify my birds again?

I’m pretty sure one of the first birds I ever bought from a man was infected. I was a novice and didn’t consider disease then.

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Hi all! I was just wondering how long MG lives in the environment without a host. I culled all my birds back in November and have sanitized EVERYTHING. I now have baby chicks coming from Ideal, Meyer, and Cackle. I have even invested in a pair of rubber boots that I will ONLY wear at home...

Thank you! I actually JUST placed an order for three black mottled and three lavender.

Hello! I was wondering how to effectively breed lavender mottled bantam Cochins. I was thinking of starting with just black mottled and lavender stock but then I had another idea. Should I also include solid black with the lavender and black mottled stock? I’m new to genetics and would really...

No, I don't. However, he hasn't started crowing so I assume he's about 5-6 months old and about to start.

Now I'm just hoping that everything ties together and he's really an Australorp.

This is not a hatchery bird to my knowledge. I was given him and a trio of Cream Legbars. I will look at the bottoms of his feet.

I was given a cockerel and told he was a black Australorp. However, I have a couple black Australorp pullets and their legs are darker than the cockerel's. Can someone help determine what breed this cockerel is please?

Blue Ameraucana — unsure if cockerel or pullet. I'm going to go with cockerel since it does have one awkwardly long tail feather. Approximately 4 months old.

I think that I will post some more pics once the chicks get older. They're only 2 days old right now so it's hard to be sure what any of them are. I think my Sumatras could actually even be some kind of bantam.

Thank you! I think that these chicks are standards though. The smallest chicks I have are the Phoenix. I thought they were originally standards but now that I'm looking at them they're much smaller. These silver ones are actually some of the largest chicks.