Recent content by Blackoutcat

I am keeping a rooster and plan to hatch out eggs to renew my own flock. I don't have plans to sell eggs or chicks but I would like to be able to if someone asked. I grant you I don't know many people who would want chickens right now but I can't predict the future. I do want to network with...

Hey all. I got a trio of 5 week old Ayam Cemani's last month and put them in quarentine inside my house. Bio security has been as tight as I can reasonably keep it. I change my entire outfit to visit the quarentine chicks and wash all the exposed skin on my arms after taking said clothes off and...

Hey everyone my first 10 Orpington day-olds are coming home Tuesday. The brooder is set up and heating as we type. I've done a butt ton of research on feed, pasty butt, splayed leg, ect. What I want to know is, do you have any weird advice or old family traditions that speed the little babies...

Thank you. I'm glad to know the poof can still exist but be trimmed back for their vision. There's no real images on the web I can find of a trimmed Polish and I got a bit worried the reason was it was an all or nothing deal! I originally thought I would let the chickens run with the goats but...

Hi everyone, My husband and I just bought a new home and we live in an area now that allows us to have small livestock (finally!). I've been researching the heck out of chicken breeds for climate tolerance, comb types, productivity, hardiness, typical personality, and of course a little...

I agree with Pyxis, foxes kill for food, they're hunters and scavengers through and through. Having found any of the bodies at all is a pretty convincing argument. The fox you saw previously probably wasn't even near by, even if it didn't make the kill itself, it would have grabbed one of the...

Sorry to hear about the missing roo, it's never fun losing your beloved livestock. It seems viable that the he was taken while trying to defend his girls. The crouching (though I can't confirm chickens do this I've seen many lizards and rodents crouch) is often a predator response for attack...

Rather disappointing that others in this community would be so quick to condemn an animal to death because it found a sneaky way to eat without working hard. Animals do that it's nature, even we find ways to make things easier it's just a snake version of a tv dinner. Find a far away location...

I used to raise mealworms for my leopard geckos but stopped after awhile as the amount of chitin in the mealies was causing problems. I did love that they were so easy to grow and reproduce. I mean I started with 100 mealies, brought in 300 more during an upgrade to my setup, and had a...

Looking for breeders in Canada or with ability to ship to Canada! If you know anyone or breed them yourself let me know please. Thanks in advance ^_^

I've decided to keep three Coturnix to start out and see how they are. As a child we kept one lovebird so my experience with birds is limited. I have found a breeder, I have a cage prepared for three birds (each gets a little more than a square foot of space), and they're going to be kept...

Thanks guys. I'm going to go with the coturnix. They seem the best choice for me.

Thanks everyone I've decided on Coturnix for my first quail venture. I've done a lot of research and they seem to be a great choice for me.