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Question for the genetics folks... Im thinking of getting a couple of nice quality barred rock hens to add to my flock, and hopefully produce some black sex links to sell. Am I correct that if I put my lavender (split to Isabel) orp roo over the barred rock hens, I would get a sex linked F1...

We bought this little tolbunt polish from a friend as a grow out. It’s sister is a proper polish but this one appears to be rumpless. No tail bud, no tail feathers, just a few feathers angled down over its bum like an araucana or guinea, otherwise perfectly healthy. I’ve never seen something...

I recently lost about 70% of my mixed flock of chickens and ducks to a fox attack. I have read that geese, while they won't take on the foxes, should they return (my place is now secured tighter than the Federal Reserve), will raise the alarm and make quite a racket. My run is 1000 sq. ft., and...

I was wondering if anyone knows what I'll get out of a clutch of eggs from my pair of cayuga/mallard crosses. I adopted them over the winter from a guy who had them and my muscovy drake Howard. He told me that if I hatched out their eggs, I would get 25% pure cayuga, 25% pure mallard and 50% the...

Hey y'all, I have a question, I'm hatching out chicks for a friend, and in addition to the polish and CCLs, my friend gave me a dozen of his own to hatch for him. He's got a mutt roo and a ameraucana roo, and the first chick to hatch is a lil silvery black thing out of a brown egg. It's got a...

I have two black silkie cockerels out of Catdance lines - they are second generation but their grandparents came from there and they are looking like they have show potential. One is a vaulted, the other is not, but both have huge poofy crests and beards. They hatched in early December 2013...

Hi everyone, I hatched out a blue palm the day before Thanksgiving, we hand raised him, and he is now having some problems. He was growing up big and healthy and strong...until 2 weeks ago. He has been housed outside in his own house since before the snow melted, and he does mingle with the...

So I've got two young'uns from this spring which my DH and I purchased as sexed pullets, to augment our flock with a couple of ameraucanas, Muffy and Skye...unfortunately Skye has recently let us know that "she" is actually Steve the Rooster..... We suspected it once the saddle and hackles...

Hey all, I've had an interesting/distressing weekend with my flock of 9 hens, so I thought I would share and see if any of you are having the same problem. On Friday afternoon, my husband and I were out checking the run and giving snacks to the girls, and I noticed a funny swelling on my RIR's...

So I set my 65 coturnix eggs for hatch today, they arrived on the 9th, and were put in the incubator same day. Been keeping them right where they should be in terms of temp and humidity in an automatic turner. When I was removing them to set this morning, one was all busted up. Dents and a big...

Hey everyone, My husband and I decided to start on a quail project, and I have a couple of questions for more experienced quail-keepers than myself. We presently have 65 mixed (tibetan, Texas A&M, manchurian and jumbo pharaoh) eggs in my sparkly new hovabator which are due to hatch around the...

I am looking for a small order of coturnix or bobwhite quail chicks, 20 birds at most. Please private message me if you have any for sale or anticipate having chicks. I don't have an incubator, so eggs will not work. Thanks

Hey does anyone know a reliable source for mule ducks other than breeding your own? I am looking for at least 3 chicks. Thanks!

Hey everyone, I just did a Eprinex pour on treatment on my girls today for the first time, 4-7 drops per md to large bird, and 3 drops for my bantam as a winter preventative, since we aren't getting much in the way of eggs anyway I figured it is a good time. What is the withdrawal period...

Hello everyone, I've got some questions I hope you can answer about geese. I currently have a flock of 7 hens, soon to be expanded to 10, fenced on 1/4 acre, and I am considering adding either a duck for eggs, or some meat geese to raise for next year's holiday season. All our birds are free...

Hello everyone! I am a backyard chicken enthusiast, possibly looking to add one khaki campbell to my flock along with a few pekin or muscovys for meat (short term project). Unfortunately, I'm still not 100% sure I am ready to add a duck, and my poor husband is (passively) against it. We are...

This little guy came as "stuffing" in a box of hatchery broiler chicks that arrived 2 weeks ago. There were 6 other stuffing chicks, which we have tentatively ID'd as barred rocks...I have one aussie from TSC that I raised from about 3 days old...this one looks an awful lot like her...any...

So can anyone explain why the folks that sell stock on this website (and many other private sites) like to specify "NO HATCHERY STOCK"? (usually in all caps) If you aren't showing your chickens, does it really matter? And if you are, does it really matter? Are show lines (with the...

I have 6 barred rock cockerel chicks that I am looking to sell, will be 8 weeks old at the end of January. All are healthy but I am not allowed to have roos where I live, so must unload them. If interested please PM me. Will ship anywhere in the US once they are feathered out.

This is our 8 month old pullet Caspar, she is 2lb. 14oz. as of this morning. We bought her as an easter egger but she lays cocoa/medium reddish brown eggs. As you can see she's fairly small, almost all white with a little bit of black flecking here and there all over her body, orange eyes...