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Dogs got in and killed everything while my friends were on a trip, the adults, the chicks, everything! There is a single hen left, But we have friends who have the line so Chad will be getting another cock, but to everyone I asked to contact me at the end of summer about pairs, There are none...

Does anyone breed or know a breeder who has eiders for sale? Thanks, Phil

Last week one of my Americana hens payed a very cool egg, it was split almost right down the middle, blue on one side and green on the other. Here is a photo, it isn't perfectly 50/50, more like 45/55 bit still it looks really cool, to unique to eat! Here it is...

I have a fantasticly colored Americana hen about 6 months old. She is by far my favorite hen, she is dominant among her sisters and all of them (12 new birds) has been in the flock for more then 2 months with no problems once the pecking order was established. Tonight I went to put them away...

I am getting my first pair of comb ducks, Sarkidiornis melanotus, has anyone here ever raised them? They are the African subspecies, S. m. melanotus and they are pinioned. I have a large pen, 40X10 ft with a barn at one end. Right now I have a small preformed pond with a 3 inch drain in the...

I am getting my first pair of comb ducks, Sarkidiornis melanotus, has anyone here ever raised them? They are the African subspecies, S. m. melanotus and they are pinioned. I have a large pen, 40X10 ft with a barn at one end. Right now I have a small preformed pond with a 3 inch drain in the...

I am having a couple of problems, first I have mosquitoes everywhere. I don't have standing water on the property but I live on 2 acres that is between 2 creeks and I have no control over the neighbors properties. I have chemical attractants and traps but it's not working and the birds combs...

About 2 weeks ago one of my grey jungle fowl hens started acting strange, she became very shy and even though she was the dominant female (there are 2 in the pen together with a male) she is now so submissive I thought she might be getting beat up. A week ago, maybe less but not more then 7...

I have a young pair of grey jungle fowl, the female is F1 (both parents were wild caught birds) and the male is descended from wild birds imported some years ago (I know the breeder but I did not breed him so I don't know the year his original birds were imported). I have limited space to keep...

For the first time in all the years of raising birds (I have not kept birds since I was 16, I'm 46 now) I had a 100% hatch. I kept 8 grey jungle fowl and sold the rest of the eggs, well late last month I got my first chick to hatch and by the next day all 8 had hatched. I wanted/expected 6...

Does anyone know about shipping 2 or 3 week old chicks? I have shipped eggs and adult birds, but can the chicks go without water or food for the 24 hours they could be in transit? How do the hatcheries do it? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

I am looking for a phoenix rooster, I prefer one that is at least 6 months old but will raise it if I can't find an older bird. Please contact me with details such as cost, color, and whatever else you think is important and a photo would be great if he is not a chick. Thank you, Phil

I raise pheasants mostly but my sister wanted fresh eggs and since she can't keep chickens where she lives I decided to get a few hens just for the eggs. I researched breeds for a moderate or better egg layer along with a pattern I liked (since I was the one going to look at them) and decided...

I am not sure if this is a problem or my imagination but I have a Swinhoe's pheasant hen that started acting funny this morning, she is not tame but she let me get right up to her while she was sitting in her dust bath and she was rolling her head in a big figure 8 back and forth. When I tried...

I have both green and grey jungle fowl and today it snowed. I normally keep them inside when the weather is cool but yesterday and this morning it was in the 60- 70's but in the early afternoon today it started hailing and then snowing. I put them in but the temps went from the 60's to the...

Besides my animals (see my post in New Member Introductions, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=477666) for a little background, I also scuba dive and collect all of my own marine tropical fish. I have travelled the tropics collecting both fresh and salt water fish and...

Hi, my name is Phil. I have a lot of experience with mammals, but I have not had birds since I was about 15 years old (I'll be 46 in June). I have kept exotics all of my life, right now I have am not keeping any because of a health problem I am dealing with but I normally have several...