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I am losing about one hen per week. Here are the symptoms. I notice one eye 'mattering' and closing. They just slow down and then I find them dead. I have seen Mareks before. These do not have the symptoms where they lose balance and eventually cannot walk. They just have one eye closed up and...

Free to a good home. A beautiful, HUGE, Blue Orpington Roo. Just a little under a year old. I was given some eggs to hatch and he was in the bunch. I have no other blues. Come get him. Central Alabama

18 big brown hatching eggs from Rocky's girls. Rocky is my prized Barred Rock and he has 6 girls that he takes care of. These Barred Rocks are not from a hatchery, but have good bloodlines. They lay BIG brown eggs on a consistent basis and are very well mannered. Shipping will be USPS.

A local university is doing a study for a major egg company. They have 1000 hens in a battery trying to see if they can get 2 eggs per day. Different feeds and such. Poor girls. next door neighbor does maintenance for the university and is in good with some of the higher ups. He talked them...

Life around Bethany Farms is good. Count and see how many bitties there are in the picture. Some are yellow, some are black, some are reddish black. Rocky,,,,,,,,,head honcho. Everyone reports to him Frisco and Stephanie, the silkies SOme of the bunnies Over in the juvenile...

Two sister Buff Orps. Raised together. Went broody together. Now have 14 chicks that they are raising together. Chicks are 2 days old. Sox, the tomcat decided that he needed a chick today. He never got close. The fury of those to BOs was like nothing I have ever seen. Amazing.

Buffy and Betty are sisters. Betty went broody two weeks ago. She has so many eggs under her that now Buffy has started helping her. 28 eggs..........wow.

The local feed store has a "chick day" once per year. They take pre orders. My 25 comet pullets came in today. I put them with my 6 guineas that are 9 days old. The day old comets are bigger than the 9 day old guineas. Too cute. Here they are all in the same box while I clean out the week of...

I am told that it would be a sexlink. I know that RIR roo/BR hen make black sex link. Has anyone tried the BO/BR?

This is my 1st time having a broody hen. Betty is probably 7 months old, a sweet Buff Orp. She is setting on 4 eggs that were laid today. Advice!

Allaboutdemchicks (Claudia) gave Vicki a pair of juvenile Silkies. I set about to make them a little tractor. She measures four feet wide, 6 feet long and 3 feet high. Door swings down (hinged on the bottom) in the front. Side of the roost area slides up and out for access. Made from 100%...

Popped a big batch of popcorn yesterday. Left a bunch unsalted. Gave some to the girls.......they went crazy. Put the rest into a bucket and put it in the garage. Came out into the garage this afternoon and found Ginger the Comet. Rocky the roo was standing there trying to figure out what she...

Took this from a web site. I have tried various methods of brooding chicks. I started with the usual newspapers, which stink, and then wood shavings. All are fine until they start kicking the shavings or newspaper into the waterer and then it sucks up all the water and makes it wet, cold and...

This one is a handsome fella indeed. He is just starting to come into his adult self. His daddy is a magnificent rooster named Rocky who is the best roo I have ever seen with his girls. Good genes in this one, he is about 10 weeks old. Free to a good home. We live in Wetumpka, near Montgomery.

I need Barred Rock pullets or hens. I live in Central Al. Please PM me if you have any for sale!

Latest hatch. Barred Rock pullet asleep in the feeder Solo - born 2 weeks ago today. Daddy - BR, Momma - BO Bandaid - named this one that because we had to do the bandaid splints on the feet. She had curled toes. 12 hours with bandaids and she was normal. 3 BR pullets Yeller...

Caught this little one week old dead asleep with her head in the feeder.

We had one hatch out that has the curled toes, so we used the bandaids for splints. Taking them off when I get home, and hopefully she/he will be just fine from then. So cute with the little bandaid feet. We are going to name her/him Bandaid.

Jacob is one of 9 children who lives with a single mom. He loves chickens and helps to feed his family with the eggs. His pitiful little coop got broken into by dogs and they killed almost all his birds. LTCM answered the call. Click here for the You Tube video Blessings!