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If you want SOP and quality Ameraucanas, there are two purebred Ameraucana clubs: the Ameraucana Alliance and Ameraucana Breeders Club, whose breeder members usually sell chicks for about half the hatchery price (you'll know what you're getting, and they'll be the real thing in the correct...

The genes that determine color in Labradors have nothing to do with temperament. :-) They're somewhat similar to chicken genetics, where black is dominant, brown is recessive, and yellow is caused by a "masking" gene that keeps black or brown from being expressed. Since some Lab litters may have...

Hi, neighbor...welcome from Hays Co.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I second the suggestion to have a vet look at the poop to be sure it's coccidia and take one for necropsy. Meanwhile, Corid is a coccidiostat which means it handicaps it while the bird's own immune system copes and overcomes it...usually, but I wonder...

Why on earth did you think tying a dead chicken to a dog's neck would do anything other than give the dog easy access to what she didn't finish eating first time around.? You mention "spent a couple hundred on her since" as maybe a reason for keeping the dog...good breeders spend thousands...

As others have said, check their water, food, and environment for mold...but this could also be symptoms of Marek's disease.

Not quite 4 weeks ago I saw one hen out of 30 with a couple of lesions on comb, and then found one rooster (in separate small flock) with a few. Separated the hen, vaccinated everyone immediately. Over the next few days another hen showed signs (bad scabs over eyes) so she went to keep the...

Her symptoms could unfortunately point to Marek's disease.

Ideal is one of the better ones, but be aware that the USPS is taking longer and longer to deliver anything and right now it's sort of a dice roll whether live chicks arrive really fast or delayed too long. Don't mean to be discouraging...just been seeing way too many sad stories of delayed...

As littledog said, OTTBs can be amazing...if you're not familiar with how well they can do barrel racing check some of the horse forums. Not sure if many of them have been as competitive in sorting events (or how serious you are about sorting, or competing vs having fun with your horse.) You may...

Basically you're looking for a horse smaller than my Golden Retrievers (which are all in show standard and not large ones.) Not sure you'll have much luck with that, since anything shorter than 34-38" inches is classified as a mini and most are born the size you're looking for (and then they...

I've had Black Copper Marans over many years from different purebred breeders and hatching eggs. All of mine have been really calm and easygoing, very accepting of other hens and introduced young ones, easy to catch for meds or whatever, but none have been as "cuddly" or super interested in us...

The closest correct pronounciation (I speak some French) is something like meal-flure or mele-flewr(not millie or milluh) and then dook-leh or dook-luh with the accent on the dook. Not dew-clay. So...mealflure dook'luh.

If one was getting ready to lay this week or so, it could possibly delay them a tiny bit as chickens don't like change (and itchy mites stress them as well) but shouldn't set them back more than a very short time, especially since they will now feel better! Good wishes for the mites (hate them!)...

As the responses on your other thread said, there are two treatments that will work (none of the "natural" treatments you suggested will get rid of mites.) Permethrin is relatively non-toxic to humans and will work...you need to treat at least twice and then be sure the mites are gone or treat...