My birds have been hit hard and fast with something with mild respiratory symptoms. The first to break with it on Monday were the roo and lead hen. By the end of the day Monday it was obvious in the whole flock. By the next day the separate brooder coop was sneezing despite bio-security...
I have my first chicks from my favaucana project. These are a cross between my lavender salmon faverolles rooster and my black Ameraucana hens. I am told the chick coloring is called melanized partridge and should feather in black and that the f2 crosses should be lavender without the brittle...
I didn't see if anyone ever posted a pic for this... but I do have one old picture of a bunch eggs from the breeds I used to have. You can see the Fayoumis egg on the chart too. (This is a very old pic - I don't have most of these breeds now.)
Thanks! I know they are a project, but they still definitely have the sweet temperament of the faverolles <3 We are both looking for anyone with LF Black Faverolles to improve them if anyone hears/knows of any breeders :D
Showing off a couple of my babies :D They are right at 4 months old now. These are the only two survivors of a catastrophic incubator failure on what was going to be a very successful hatch of Laurel Zepp's shipped lavender faverolles project eggs. It is a miracle these two survived. First I had...
I have a small flock of BBS Ameraucanas from William Morrow lines. Definitely purebred for many generations. Yet, I have one splash hen (my ONLY splash hen) who has a clean face - no muff or beard. I am confused how this happened. After culling many of the extra roos what I have to work with at...
I have a small flock of BBS Ameraucanas from William Morrow lines. Definitely purebred for many generations. Yet, I have one splash hen (my ONLY splash hen) who has a clean face - no muff or beard. I am confused how this happened. After culling many of the extra roos what I have to work with at...
I only buy from MG clean tested breeders which are few and far between. I buy from www.whitmorefarm.com I have BBS Ameraucanas, Delawares, and Welsummers from them. They all have proper leg color, combs, etc. I had 2 black Ameraucanas that had a little tiny bit of color bleed in their hackles...
Have you seen any signs that their immune systems are fighting anything? When mine were not noticeably symptomatic but were in fact fighting MG I was having between 1 and 3 eggs laid from the roost. At first they were mostly regular looking eggs, but then the shells got softer and softer till...
Anything I can do to help spare others what I just went through <3 I am adding new stuff all the time as I find it. Here is the link again so you don't have to look for it :) https://www.facebook.com/notes/pendragon-acres-farm/links-to-helpful-poultry-information/1611694419054116
I have lots of links to MG info including how to treat hatching eggs to prevent vertical transmission if anyone wants to do more reading about that https://www.facebook.com/notes/pendragon-acres-farm/links-to-helpful-poultry-information/1611694419054116 I have lots of research time on my hands...