Do all Silkies have turquoise earlobes? I have five Silkies that I hatched out this summer and only the white one has turquoise ears......are the others just late bloomers???
Got home from work this morning to find a large Great Horned Owl inside the chicken run!!! We have bird netting that we keep over our runs, but the owl must have found an overlapping section and got in. Once inside, he couldn't find his way back out! Thankfully all the chickens ( Lavender...
We've had nothing but stalling since we placed our order with Hodges Farms in Georgia on April 30th. Repeated emails tell us we are first in line for the next hatch, but no matter that we are first, the response tells us that other orders were filled before ours and that if we will just be...
Wanted to get back wit:rolleyes:h everyone to let you know that the uprising is settling. The somewhat larger hens and the rooster are still ignoring the Marans, but the Marans are surviving nicely and I suspect that with time, they will all be buddies. Now my next question. I was given the 3...
Ok, I'm new at this and had my coop with Reds and Arauconas ( all very young hens ) and one Araucona rooster ( also very young!)....my Cuckoo Maran chicks were getting big enough to join the coop, so I put them out. The older hens are totally shunning them and won't let them eat or drink...