In my experience the # 1 reason people want them is as a novelty. The # 2 reason is animal flipping for profit. The # 3 reason is for religious or natural medicine purposes. There is very little meat to these birds but it is more palatable to me than regular chicken. As far as egg laying goes I...
After our purchased eggs hatched it turned into an intriguing experiment to me, like seeing the colors on my ND goats at birth. I guess the only difference to me is with the AC I’m rooting for all black. Honestly After my experience I would never recommend buying eggs online, you just never...
The purpose of this thread is #1 so others who are curious about what a batch of Cemani chicks looks like can get an idea ( it’s so hard to find pictures of culls). Also #2 I’d like to hear what others have to say about these chicks or their own experience.
Ok so my husband got some Ayam...
I have searched the internet as well as this site high and low for anything resembling this issue and found these old posts. Basically I’m looking for comments, opinions and/or suggestions.
OP posted this in 2013
Only reply posted in 2015
So here’s my situation.
So I had a Pilgrim gosling...
This is how he positions himself when I’m not holding him up. He can move his feet but when I sit him up he leans back on his hock joints and toppled sideways.
I tried to get a good picture of what I see in his throat but this is as good as I can get. They are deep in his throat. I tried swabbing the patches off but they do not move. They are white. The picture doesn’t show it clearly but they are somewhat circular like wobbly doughnuts. He can’t seem...
No signs of blood anywear besides all around her backside. I did not see more feathers than normal like when a predator attacks. My pen is 12x 16 and there are about 15 birds in there but most are male which is why I though over breeding was the cause. The fencing is chicken wire and the doors...
No signs of predators in the pen. We do have a fox that prays on our free range guys from time to time. Other than that we have only ever seen an armadillo and snakes.
Her tail feathers were gone that hole is her vent. She was alive when I took the first picture. In this one I pulled her out of the bun barrel to see if this added context. Thanks for your help
Feeding time this morning we found this lovely girl laying next to the water like this. They have an automatic water and the water is clean. They have feed available 24/7. About a week or two ago I switched this coop to later feed since they are almost 4 months old. I have not seen a single egg...
Hi, thanks for the help! # 1-3 and 5-9 I am 90% sure are my mutts. #4 is an Ayam Cemani my husband purchased from Foxfire farms. I know this 100% because of the color of its skin and mucous membranes (even though the coloring everywhere else is terrible). Every other chick is confusing the life...
Hello,
I posted a few of my chicks a while back and some of you helped me ID the breed and gender. Now that the rest have grown up a bit I would really appreciate help identifying the breed and confirming the gender. The pictures are of those birds that could be female however I think 2 or 3 of...