Hello. We have bought all our chickens from other people, except for our mutt babies we have hatched. We hatched this lil girl (I hope) and she is the wild down color. I have read up on genetics but I don't know how to tell if our females / males have the silver / gold genetics in them...
I am unsure of the duck's age. It is a female. She was fine yesterday. Then today she could hardly swim in the pond. Once we got all the ducks out of the pond, she could not walk up onto shore, I had to wade out and get her. She acts like her neck is spasming, she pulls it back and...
I just got into chickens this spring and love them. My friend had an incubator and talked me in to bating my own. I'm officially addicted! I know everyone said to only candle at day 7 or whatever, however, I was so fascinated that I did it every night. This is an amazing process! So, today was...
Hello, my name is Teresa. My husband and I first got chickens this year in March. We have a ton of chickens. A newly acquired friend gave us all her Dutch banties and Egyptians. We also have 6 gold star hens, 1 Buff Orpington hen, 2 Rhode Island Red hens, 1 black star hen, 1 black Australorp...