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I am in Midland Texas and have a back yard flock of Americanas. I need to get rid of some young Americana roosters. I will ship, if anyone is interested.

Hi I live in Midland, Texas and we have banty white leghorns and banty americanas. I would love to buy some older banty americana hens, if anyone has some within driving distance(resonable), robineggblue

Thank you for the replies. They help. None of our other 12 chickens developed any kind of illness. Because of the symptoms and because we have a clean back yard, our chicken vet thinks perhaps he pecked at a dead baby bird? a dead mouse?. We are fortunate to have both a commercial chicken vet...

Does any one have any experience with chicken botulism? I have a 2 year old banty rooster who has been diagnosed with botulism by the vet. We seem to have beaten the acute illness but he is still having trouble walking. I am feeding him baby parrot cereal, Insure and Pedialyte(vet instructions)...

What is a Blue Ameraucana?? Sounds verrrrrrry interesting. We have Ameraucanas

We keep ours in large metal trash cans with lids, beside our 2 runs, each holds 2 50 lb. sacks of feed.

We planted pampas grass all along the fence of our chicken run after several close encounters with small hawks. The girls head for cover often, but thanks to my faithful border collie we have not had a loss. Good luck

Absolutely, my old 4-H horse hated dogs. His specialty was ambushing them after they came under the fence on the south side and then chase them all the way to the north side.

Of course, I cannot spell either.

I live out in West Texas, but I would definately try to come.

I have an excess of bantam eggs. Our hens are 1/2 White Leghorn bantam 1/2 Americana. Do you want for hatching? I could send you a dozen in about 3 days.

My chickens chase mice. It is the funniest thing you ever saw. If the mice don't make it to the fence, it is dinner.

What is the chopped pumpkin seeds in buttermilk formula? Sounds like something this family would like to try.

Nope, it sounds like black comb disease to me. We just lost a beautiful little banty rooster to it. Then our big golden Lakenvaulker rooster started showing black spots on his comb. I took him straight to the vet who put him on tetracyline for 7 days. At first,, I did not think he was going to...

Poor Thing! What is the original problem??