I have 3 silver partridge hens but no silver partridge roo. I have a gorgeous double barred red cuckoo roo and was wondering if I put him on the hens if I would get Crele with more red in them??? My Crele that I have lean more to the gold and grey. Thanks for your imput.
Thirty seven years ago I started with Australorps and the roosters were the meanest things I have ever seen. Hens were great. One rooster attacked my two year old son and gouged him with his spurs. Dinner! They were just really mean. I tried again with different roosters and they were mean too.
I have over 200 chicks and chickens and have just discovered fp in almost every run. I read that it is carried by mosquitos and there is nothing you can do for it. I had already put everyone on antibiotics because it seems it can create secondary infections and I had noticed some sneezing and...
I have been fermenting for several weeks now using a whole grains mix I am having milled at a mill and alfalfa pellets mixed in. It has been working great every day the white is all over the top. It hasn't smelled bad at all. I now have some sick chickens and so I thought to make it a bit...
I just received some 21/2 week old chiks in the mail. Two have bubbles on their chest that are abnormal. I am pretty sure it may be their crop. I have raised MANY chicks so I know abnormal. This has never happened in shipment before. One chicks lump is soft and squishy and is leaking fluid...