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I have 3 silver partridge hens but no silver partridge roo. I have a gorgeous double barred red cuckoo roo and was wondering if I put him on the hens if I would get Crele with more red in them??? My Crele that I have lean more to the gold and grey. Thanks for your imput.

I just received some 21/2 week old chiks in the mail. Two have bubbles on their chest that are abnormal. I am pretty sure it may be their crop. I have raised MANY chicks so I know abnormal. This has never happened in shipment before. One chicks lump is soft and squishy and is leaking fluid...

I thought I would post this information as several have appreciated the info when I have told them about it. The first time it happened (35 years ago which tells you how long I've been raising chickens) I had 18 Buff Orpington pullets and we were away from home at a party when one of those...

For some reasong (senior moment???) I removed my eggs from the auto turner to lay flat two days to early. Looked at the calendar wrong is all I can think. Is there any chance that any can make it? On top of that they were expensive shipped eggs!!

My HUGE incredibly beautiful English Black Orpington rooster killed my very large English Spangled Orpington hen last night. I saw it happen. He was mounting her and then suddenly she was dead. I heard the noise glanced over and he was just finishing. She then started struggeling and...

We are in process of setting up multiple (22) chicken runs for winter and want to be using the automatic nipples to decrease chores. :) We would love any advise on how to set this up for winter freezing. There are way to many of my little (big) darlings (English Orpingtons) to all be in one...

I just found a huge bubble 3 1/2 by maybe 3 1/2 inches on the belly and chest of my English Orpington chick that is about 5 weeks old. Is this Ascitis. It makes me want to take a pin and release the fluid.

I read an article about Lymphoid Leukosis (wasting disease) that said you should never hatch eggs from a pullet before she molts and that she is not considered a hen until she molts. It said that they can carry LL and pass them on to their chicks if they are a pullet but that if you wait till...

I purchased seven English Orpington chicks. They thought four of them would be mottled/spangled and three would be blues. The spangled chicks did not have as many light feathers as ones I've seen pictures of and as a newby I didn't know to look at the feet and legs. I still don't know for...

Well, this is my first post and boy what a post. I have been searching other posts about cysts on chickens and can't find anything exactly like what I experienced today. I was checking over my English Buff Orpington hens and on the underside of the breast I found what looked like a plug or...