My dingbat vomited a bird beak on the carpet yesterday 🤦♀️ That’s naughty on every level. Don’t ask me what kind of bird or where she found it—I only know it wasn’t a chicken.
My husband used to breed betas. For a long time we had at least two. They are different than other fish somehow. We had a couple bigger tanks with regular fish (I can’t even remember what kinds) but we always had a beta in with them—usually a female. Watching them is almost as relaxing as...
I have found the silvers and the blue-breasted brown but I haven’t seen any regular old brown Leghorns near me or I would have snapped some up. Lots of white ones as well but I have stayed away from white because of hawks. Some people say it’s a myth that they are more visible to predators but I...
Now that I am home to observe I can see the symptoms. They are mild but I’m sure combined with the cold and their age it’s just too much. If that last sickly Maran dies I might do a little investigating. It would be easier than working with a smaller bird.
Even if you time it right (within 24 hours I think) of her chicks hatching there is no guarantee she will accept them. Have a brooder set up just in case. I’ve tried it once and it didn’t work but I know others here have had success. Personally I wouldn’t risk it but that’s just me. Brooding...
My roosters all get named after professional wrestlers from the 80s and 90s. My hens don’t get names unless the kids name them or they have some distinctive feature—my biggest chicken is called Fatty then I think of the two dozen there are only a couple with anything resembling a name and...
Lost two more pullets in the past 24 hours. 🤞 the last two silver Leghorns make it through whatever took the other three. There was a virus going through the flock but that particular group didn’t seem as poorly as the other. And the little ones had no symptoms so perhaps their habit of sleeping...
I am no genetics expert but I think if he has the blue egg gene you would get blue eggs from the EEs and anything else that lays blue eggs. You might get olive eggs from the brown egg layers but don’t quote me on that because you might need a dark layer for that.
I like my 380 ok. I had to learn to hold it properly and there are easier brands to shoot but I will keep mine because it’s an easy conceal weapon and I’m comfortable with it. Fear the man with one gun goes the saying. I have another pistol but it is a headache and if that doesn’t get remedied I...
Don’t make a video just on my account. I imagine once I catch them it ain’t no thing. Don’t have a lot of fluffy butts anymore but I really need my chickens to start making chicks this spring. I lost two pullets and a cockerel this last cold snap and I had plans for that cockerel. I’m hesitant...
Interesting. I’ve never thought to do that. Have you made a video about it or is it fairly fool-proof? I wonder if I trim up the hens I want to breed and not the others if it would skew fertilization