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In true fashion for our farm, my mother sent me a link to an ad for someone selling out of their pigeons. Having wanted pigeons for so long, and it being a good deal, I decided to call and I mean... there's no point in driving an hour to pick up just a few, right? So I purchased the remaining...

I have a little brother that will be old enough to enter fair in just two short years. As the crazy chicken woman I am, I've been looking for bantam breeds to raise for him and, well, myself. There's so many options, I don't know what to choose. So if I could get suggestions, that would be...

I figured I might as well write down what we're doing and share it with people that understand. Particularly since recently our farm has hit The Year of the Birds. So hello! I live in Michigan with my boyfriend. We own a small farm with Nigerian Dwarf and Nubian goats, Rex, Mini Rex, and Angora...

Does anyone raise these and are willing to ship?

I hope this is the right forum to post this question in! My family and I would like to eventually have our own production flock for eggs and meat. Breed and hatch out chicks, and then raise the roosters for meat and keep the hens for eggs. Maybe sell some hatching eggs or young chicks...

I want to get some Orpingtons this upcoming spring. Preferably something other than buff, or at least a few different ones. :) I will also be looking for some other breeds possibly. And, in the future, perhaps some more ducks. Anyway, I'm looking around for hatcheries. What hatcheries do you...

Recently, one of my hens was limping. I separated her from the flock and let her rest on it for a few days like I did with my rooster when his leg was hurt a while back. Yesterday, she wanted out of the cage, so I let her out to hobble around and she seemed perfectly fine... except that the...

So the other day when my stepdad went down to take care of the animals, he noticed our Pekin camping out in some tall grass. Going over to investigate, the Pekin climbed off a nest of about twenty eggs - mostly duck, but with two chicken. (If the chicken eggs hatch, I plan to separate them and...

I have decided to start breeding Orpingtons, obviously, and was wondering if anyone had a good place to get them? I would like to get them from mutiple places, of course. Any color is fine, and so is if they are English or American, but I would prefer American.

So I've recently decided to take another dip in the poultry pool and get serious about chickens (and maybe one day ducks or pigeons). I just need to pick a breed or two to focus on. So far, I've loved the Barred Rocks for their gentle, curious nature and the Ameracaunas for their egg color. And...

Well, my lovely Brahma is at it again this year, same time as last year. Originally, we weren't going to let her brood, but now... well, we're considering it. Currently, she's sitting on a nest with some chicken eggs and duck eggs. I was just wondering if we can hatch both species together? I...

I just went outside to check on my chickens and let them out and everything, and low and behold, my rooster has frostbite. He got it last year and everything was fine, but I don't want to risk him losing anymore of his comb. It's already black. Is there anyway that I can reverse this and maybe...

I have a nine pound Orpington rooster who wr discovered today was limping. He only limps when he runs, however, and he doesn't do so every time. I inspected his feet and one of the pads is swollen. It's hard and there is no scab or anything, so I'm not thinking bumblefoot. He does have a fairly...

Hello. Today when I went to lock up my birds, I realized that the ducks were still out. I went tp chase them in when I realized that our year and a half old female Pekin wouldn't walk. I picked her up and set her down by the door so she could go over to her bed. She stood up and rocked back and...

Right now, one of our chickens has decided to go broody. With it being so close to winter, this isn't the best time. Sure, I would love her to hatch some chicks for me... in the spring. But right now...? Not really. So far, all of the feathers on her stomach have come off. (I know that this is...

I would love to invest in a bantam breed of chicken that would (more than likely) be used for showing, but I'm not sure what breed to get. I've been doing research on them, but I would love to hear your opinions and stories on the different bantam breeds before I make my official choice. :)

We have two roosters - a Buff Orpington who is about a year and a half old, and his young, three-month-old son who is a mix between him and Ameracuana. I have read in multiple places how to get two roosters to get along, and I think that these two will do so quite well. We have thirty hens...