Parakeets get Lung mites. If you can pick them up listen to there breathing. If you hear crackling (sounds like rice krispies) You need to treat them. In the shop every time we bought Parakeets they had lung mites.
I have a question. I raise lavender silkies, but the breeder I bought my first lav from mixed whites to add type. As that was what he raised. After I doubled back on the line I started getting White along with my lavender chicks. My question is ( If I breed these white together will I get...
Here is a couple pictures of eggs. These eggs my sister received about 1 1/2 weeks ago. They was gathered the same day she got them. they was put in her frig. She cracked one this morning, and this is what it looked like so she cracked the rest. Two was ok..Does anyone have any idea what can...
well mine are all done set 25 eggs,marans and wyandottes and 3 lav eggs, All but 2 hatched.awesome bunch of babies. 9 slw.,3 silkies, 11 fcm happy chicken dance
Hi I'm new to ducks,and would love some advice. I was given a pair of muscovy ducks this spring from a breeder. Thought it would be nice to have some for my ponds. Well I have 13 babies now. They are about 4 days old now. The mother is a choc pied I think and not sure what color the father is...
Can anyone give me an idea what color these chicks are. I bought eggs marked silver and black wyandotte's at an auction, and 10 out of the 12 hatched, but these don't look like my silver laced looked when they hatched. What color could they be? They are about a week old now.