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Does anybody know where to get french label rouge? We are looking for a good meat chicken that is a slow grower;meaty but not going to be tough.

I have noticed lately that I will get an egg that when cracked the white is extremely thick, like it wont fall out of the shell when cracked unless I physically dump it. Usually when you crack an egg, the white slips out. Eggs are collected once a day. It is only one color egg, peach shell. I...

I filled my incubator, 41 eggs. 21 hatched. 1 peep's intestines were hanging out so I had to cull it, everybody else is great. I waited another 24 hours after the last peep hatched before shutting off the incubator and taking the eggs out. I always take any eggs out that did not hatch to crack...

We have had chickens, laying hens and meat chickens, for 4 years. This years batch of 4-H meat chickens is very bazzar! We had a 2-3 week old peep with, what I'm sure was an impacted crop, hard crop, chicken not growing, etc... They are now 8 weeks old. One of our biggest cocks had a large...

We have had chickens, laying hens and meat chickens, for 4 years. This years batch of 4-H meat chickens is very bazzar! We had a 2-3 week old peep with, what I'm sure was an impacted crop, hard crop, chicken not growing, etc... They are now 8 weeks old. One of our biggest cocks had a large...

We have a Golden campine, 11 months old, who looks like she has an extremely large uniboob? I know it sounds silly, but what the heck? She has been like this for about 2 months. Has only layed 3-4 eggs in this time, used to be a good egg layer (I can tell how many eggs she has layed because she...

We have a Golden campine, 11 months old, who looks like she has an extremely large uniboob? I know it sounds silly, but what the heck? She has been like this for about 2 months. Has only layed 3-4 eggs in this time, used to be a good egg layer (I can tell how many eggs she has layed because she...

Had a Buff Orpington, about 11 months old, who started acting dumpy yesterday. Had oozy poop around vent feathers, washed off. She didnt want to move this morning. Went out to barn to check on her and she was dead. Cut her open and found about 3/4 cup of maggots pouring out of her vent. Vent...

i have 3 eight week old chicks and 18 five week old chicks. they have been on the proper age appropriate crumble since they were born. some of their poop is orange/runny/stinky and sometimes it is "normal". i have looked at poop pictures and under that section it says it is upper...

We hatched peeps last week and are in our basement. I have always kept my babies on newspaper for the first week or so and then they go to shavings. Cleaning their poopy mess this morning, i noticed that 2 out of 18 peeps have a warty looking growth on the bottom of their feet, one has one warty...

the government brings the coyotes in to take care of the deer population, now the coyotes are justas big of a problem as the deer, so now they bring in bobcats! there is onw scoping out my barn full of goats and chickens! darn them, let mother nature do things on her own and we wont get into...

is there anything you can do to try to get more pulletts than roos in a hatch? humidity, temp, etc.?? more pointy the end means a roo?

we had an outbreak of what we are assuming to be infectious bronchitis in our 2 year old laying hens this past August. They were treated with antibiotics and all were better. their egglaying has diminished alot and i am going to butcher all and have my new batch in the spring. one hen is...

we got a rooster and he was introduced to the flock the first day we got him, not my choice i would have like to quarrentine him first, but the man just tossed him in my front yard. after about a week of him being here some of my hens started wheezing and sneezing. i gave them antibiotics, per...

okay, i posted about this chicken a few days ago. she has not gotton any better, so we decided she was suffering and had to kill her today (RIP angel). we had a golden comet hen, born 8-7-07, who just recintly start walking very squatty and slowly and low to the ground. her belly was very hard...

i have a flock of 17 hens and 1 rooster. one of my golden comet hens, 2 years old this past august, is walking awkward. her legs at the hip seem to be bowed out, shes walking very slowly and close to the ground, comb and face is palish pink. she is eating fine, pooping fine, just seems to be in...

i have a flock of 17 hens and 1 rooster. one of my golden comet hens, 2 years old this past august, is walking awkward. her legs at the hip seem to be bowed out, shes walking very slowly and close to the ground, comb and face is palish pink. she is eating fine, pooping fine, just seems to be in...

I have a one year old aracuna hen that started wheezing/gasping/sounds like struggling for air. my daughter says she sounds like a duck. I picked her up and felt down her entire throat to see if anything was lodged in it, nothing. she has no nasal discharge. it was very hot today, but even after...

I keep reading that people are putting seven on there chickens. we eat our eggs and my children play with our chickens. i wont even use the stuff in my garden. there has got to be something out there that works that is not poisin. i use DE and now only a few of my barred rocks are effected. i...

i have heard that only potato peels are toxic?