I have a small flock of Silkies and Polish, confined to large chicken run. We have two cockerels who are always fighting with each other(not with the other roos) over breeding or just in general. They are brothers. We know we have too many roosters and are rehoming one of the brothers and a...
Hey ya'll! We recently got some turkey poults and they are now close to 5 weeks old, except for the 3 Blue slates, who are about 3-4 weeks old. We have 3 Bronze, one red bournon and 3 Blue Slates.I don't know how old you are able to start sexing them based off Physical features, but I found out...
we have one week old polish Tolbunt Chicks.They developed bloody diarrhea today. They are already on a medicated feed, and electrolyte water. A few of them have had pasty butt problems, but we've done our best to clean it whenever we notice.What should we do?
Hello! I want sure if I should post it in the disease forum or here, so I'm posting this here. We recently ordered 15(the minimum) Assortment color Polish chicks from Purely Poultry hatchery. They arrived Wednesday morning and we got a call the moment the got off the truck(huge thank you to our...
We have a 2yro Americana cross hen with what Im 95% certain is an impacted crop. I found her outside just standing with her wings drooped, eyes opening and closing as if in pain and did nothing when I went to pick her up. She's a friendly hen but usually runs if you walk up to her. I examined...
It started about a week or two ago. We had put the ducks up around 8, and noticed thathat instead of 7, we had 6 ducks. We are now down to 4 ducks, as of Last night. all of our ducks are Pekin ducks, except for one of our males who is a Pekin/Indian runner and is gray and white. So far all we...
Hello! I'm a beginning breeder and will be breeding silkies for the first time this spring! We recently got some silkies pullets, along with a sizzle pullet. I was wondering what I would get if I bred her with one of my silkie cockerels once the pullet is old enough? I'm trying to learn more...
On July 5, we bought 7 chicks from an experienced breeder. 1 Ayam cermani, 2 copper marans, 2 polish tolbunts, an ayam/easter egger cross (the breeder calls them Laced blue belles) and 1 americana/copper maran(Olive egger) all of the chicks are growing normally except for one of the copper...
I have a mixed Breed Bantam hen who I discovered was limping, and after much trouble of catching g her, I discovered her toe completely swollen... I'm going to put her in a sling , and I think she might need it ampurated.. she has scaleu keg, and I knew,she did... but I tried to treat her...
I have both a question, and a exciting news!
So, in early June I got one week old black Silkie chicks as show birds I entered them in our state fair, and they both won first place!!! I have a pulley named Willow, and a Cockrel named Juniper! They are almost four months old, on Halloween...
I have both a question, and a exciting news!
So, in early June I got one week old black Silkie chicks as show birds I entered them in our state fair, and they both won first place!!! I have a pulley named Willow, and a Cockrel named Juniper! They are almost four months old, on Halloween...
I have both a question, and a exciting news!
So, in early June I got one week old black Silkie chicks as show birds I entered them in our state fair, and they both won first place!!! I have a pulley named Willow, and a Cockrel named Juniper! They are almost four months old, on Halloween...
So, I have this one hen who I have had since got chickens(3 1/2 years!) AND she is 4 (almost 5) years old. I've been trying to figure our what she is since we got her from good friends as a 1yr old. They dint what she was, only a mix... I was thinking a Jersey giant mix(they had a lot of...
So, I have this one hen who I have had since got chickens(3 1/2 years!) AND she is 4 (almost 5) years old. I've been trying to figure our what she is since we got her from good friends as a 1yr old. They dint what she was, only a mix... I was thinking a Jersey giant mix(they had a lot of...
So, I have this one hen who I have had since got chickens(3 1/2 years!) AND she is 4 (almost 5) years old. I've been trying to figure our what she is since we got her from good friends as a 1yr old. They dint what she was, only a mix... I was thinking a Jersey giant mix(they had a lot of...
So I have two black silkies who I'm going to breed this spring, and I'm wonderin what colors will I get out of them? I read somewhere on here before I joined that someone said that they were bred with all colors, so most black silkies don't have pure black bloodlines. They also said they have...