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Yep, thats my question. I have tried searching, and Googling didn't find what I was hoping for. Thanks in advance. :D Breeding silkie carrier to silkie will produce what percentage silkied vs smooth? I believe I red showgirl to silkie is a 50% chance of showgirl, if anyone can confirm...

Have no luck searching online for pigeon raising questions. :( How many makes a happy pigeon? 1-5? I want 1 pen/cage sometimes 2 no more (+ a hospital suite).. Is that ok for keeping a breeding pair? What protein % do they need? Do they all fly? Some look too fancy to fly. Which birds are...

My pic is the coop they are in we only have 3, not sure they really generate much heat. We get a couple inches of snow a year that melts in a couple days. Most winter issues we have around here is needing to scape iced windshields. This coop is similar to ones in front of the coastal or wilco...

6mo pullet isn't wanting to walk. She is curling her feet and tucking them under her. She hobbles around a bit. Day one seemed like it was her left foot, now a few days later she has been extending those toes and limping on her right curled foot. She is preening and eating/drinking, acting...

Hello we love ducks and have finally decided on Muscovies! My kids do 4h and would love to show ducks at the poultry shows as well as their chickens. We are looking for someone who is breeding with breed standards in mind. I see lots of ads for meat ducks, but nothing about standards or...

Today my little boys favorite 4h show pullets is having trouble walking,injured toe/ foot I think. How do I know which one? My son said twice she was laying funny today, similar to a dust bath, but funny. He let them out and she did at some point make her way out but went under our utility...

Looking for duck people in Oregon. I would like to talk duck with locales! :). I had a couple Magpies and enjoyed them, but it turned out not the right time for us. Looking to get them again now that we are more prepared. What kind is best not sure we are open to any that would be a good...

25wk old trio. One cockerel, and two pullets. Raised by a Junior novice 4Her and taken to the Yamhill County fair. We are in Dayton, Oregon. Possible to meet up halfway depending on where you are.

In march we were laying great! Each girl ( i have 4) an egg a day (4eggs a day). I will skip details. I switched to a No Gmo feed, no corn/no soy. Eggs went ???? Couldn't find any, and if there was sign of egg it was eaten (out side of coop). So I think 1. Not enough protein, 2. Bad...

Does this sound like the hens or another animal? I locked up all my hens separately, let them lay and waited. One that didn't lay I gave her eggs, and waiting hours. No one was caught as an egg eater. When I first noticed the smashed eggs they were free to go in and out of their...

We were looking and looking for a bantam and could not find one we were happy with. We were thinking golden sebrights, but for a couple reasons kept searching for another option. We are stuck with buying from the feed store, which luckily this year is carrying a lot of new options. We came...

Hello, We have a polish baby, 1 wk old. It's left eye is weepy, and in the (front) corner there is a bump of "skin?". I was a little confused when we bought it, I didn't realize at the time. But it had been weepy for a couple days already. He told me,"It gets shaving stuck to it's face, I...

I have tried asking before about her, for diarrhea. Someone mentioned the other day, since none of the great suggestions I received helped, that I think the opposite. Sticky poo like young chicks. Wow I though, that could just be it! So what to feed to loosen her up? She has fresh water...

*very healthy hen, other than she has diarrhea during the laying months that seems to get worse as the summer goes by* I have a hen that is very healthy when not laying, but gets a dirty bottom as soon as laying begins. It got so bad in the beginning of winter we thought she was a goner. She...

I am a little heart broken. My first hen is going to be 1 this April and Wednesday I noticed her left eye was much darker than normal. I have been watching her and couldn't be for sure until today, she doesn't have sight in that eye! The only difference I see is how it is much darker now...

I am looking for a possible new way of feeding my small flock. I have four birds at the moment. We have been using one of those quart(?) size plastic bottles with the screw on bottom, gravity feeder that we got for them as chicks. This lasts about two days, they forage in our backyard at...

Our hen started having a slight case of diarrhea when she started laying a couple months ago. She is a barred rock 8months old. She has started staying away from the other birds a few weeks ago, but I thought it was because our drake had "matured." And was a bit harassing of the hens. She...

My kids and I got three chicks this spring for our home schooling family. The first one to start to lay was our barred rock. (These are our first chickens ever) We read all the books we could get from our library coop, I don't remember anything about this. She started laying a couple months...

I have three chicks we brought home from the feed store in early April (2010). (my first) I have always noticed this one was larger, and bossier. (thought she may be a rooster) Then she was the last to feather. (again maybe a rooster) Now she has grown wattles and comb well ahead of the other...