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My Red Serama Rooster "Bob-a-Looy" and his Girl "Sweetie Pie" had to be given their own separate cage. The other two Serama Roos "Chester" and his Dad "Thumper" have taken an intensive dislike of Bobby....ganged up on him and beat the stuffing out of him..first confrontation they did a bit of...

I've got a radio tuned in to NPR for my flock. They seem to like the classical music and the talk and news. Heck! I'm sure they know more about current events then I do! The radio calms them...they aren't started by every little noise. I also have one of those swirly low wattage red lights on at...

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Here are a few pics of my flock...[/IMG][/IMG] the black and brown clock is "Thumper" the red pair are "Bob" and "Penny" the last one is "Jimmy" and his girl.

It's most likely a Cornish-Rock Cross...solid white with huge bright yellow orange feet and legs like tree trunks? I can tell you that they do not perch after they get to be a month or so old...they are usually butchered at 7 to 10 weeks old...if you let them get much older, say 14-16 weeks...

I touched the wrong spot on this screen! The tumors I found looked like strings of grayish,yellow,tan tapioca sized little adhesions on the outside of the intestines...actually almost all of the internal organs. God, I wish I could have taken a picture! Of the two hens only one had them....they...

This didn't look anything like a cancerous tumor or tumors...I looked it up in the chicken health handbook and evidently avian TB is common in aging back yard flocks...it is not normally catchy to humans, unless they have a very weak immune system...it might be possible, but according to what I...

Clear and frosty! Supposed to be a really nice day! Hope it dries up in the yard and the grass starts to green up. Maybe a nice warm rain and a Thunder Boomer would get it started?

Just culled a couple of old hens...they weren't laying anymore and seemed to be feeling under the weather...tried a few cures, but they weren't responding. They both had ascites, but the weird thing was the intestines and internal organs of one of them were covered with little pearl like...

I usually candle from the big end to see how the air cell is forming...you want to wait till the eggs have brooded for at least a week to ten days to really see how the embryo is developing...if the insides floats around within the egg, as it appears in your photo, looks like the yolk has...

58 and occasional sun yesterday....32 and windy,with warnings dangerous wind gusts of up to 60 mph...possible power outages expected...and it's snowing, little round balls of ice....

Freezing cold!!! Nasty damp icy wind blowing out of the east at 12 mph 17 degrees Fahrenheit, feels like -10! Might be close to it with the wind chill added into the mix!!!

Cool!!! Your chickens will love it. I add new "Furniture" to my birds run, move things around...trying to enrich their surroundings..they love "Up" and your new coop has lots of options....for adding a "jungle gym" for your birds...I just added a couple of perches inside a chick cage...it was...

17 degrees and cloudy....grass was showing three days ago, now it's covered by 8 inches of snow...sure am looking forward to spring.

Hey!!! Great job!!! Love the door latch!! Looks like something I would do...my friends laugh at me for "Saving" bit and pieces of wood....I figure about the time I toss that junk in the garbage or fire...I will find that I need a piece just like it...Happens all the time!!! Once again!! Great job!!!

19 Degrees...feels like -12....it was 70 degrees and sunny two days ago...Welcome to the U.P!!! If you don't like the weather, wait a little while! It will change!!! NNE 13 mph wind and 6 to 8 Inches of snow predicted for later today and tonight...Happy, Happy!!! Just fill the wood box and...

play it safe and separate them...some hens will attack and injure even kill strange chicks.

Thanks for the great advice!!! My mom used to tell me, "Try to learn something new every day!" All I have to do is check into this site! And my day is complete, in the learning part...the dishes are a whole different story...hate doing dishes...Wooo...where did that come from??? Silly brain...

I was studying my "Chicken Health Handbook" and vitamin D and E were mentioned...also soybean protein not being the best type of protein...the necessity of checking carefully the Age of the chick food!! Old or stale feed will not contain the nutrition stated on the label...many of the necessary...

I believe that some of the breeds that were used for the foundation stock carry some of what are called "lethal genes"...these can cause an embryo to die shortly after it begins to develop...or even for some reason right before it's time to hatch...I have had these things happen...candle the...