Recent content by crittercaretech

hello, do you have any suggestions for bumble foot on toes. our rooster reappeared after a few weeks missing. he has a bumble on his middle toe close to the nail and a bumble at the end of his rear facing toe that is very swollen and the nail is gone. we went to the vet friday and his prognosis...

I posted this bird on a few chicken FB pages as well as on this forum. From one of the FB pages I was contacted by a gentleman who had previously had a chimera. He put me in touch with a professor at Edinburgh University. They are going to apply for permits to allow importation of biological...

just for fun, here is a vivid example of skin color between the sexes on one chick we hatched in September. An Ayam Cemani roo over a Naked Neck Turken hen resulted in this chimera chick. The left side is female right side is male. the chick is black so the shanks and beak color are dark on...

Thank you, there might be hope for me to get a grasp of the color genetics after all, lol.

hello, I have a question about a silkie who is dark blue in color and was from an accidental mixing of a white rooster and a splash hen. I know the recessive white can hide any color but the white gene in general confuses me a bit. If this blue chick was used for breeding in the future would it...

thank you for taking the time to give me your thoughts. I have he hardest time judging quality on the silkies. I keep telling myself cute does not mean quality but it hasn't penetrated my brain yet.

I posted these photos on a chicken fb page and was contacted by someone who informed me of a study the University of Edinburgh is working on. The gentleman who contacted me had previously worked with them when he had a Chimera pop up in his flock. he provided feather and blood samples and did...

thought I would update with a few current photos of this young rooster.

I was hoping someone could critique the quality of my silkie showgirl rooster. if he is good quality I would like to find some nice white females for him. at the moment he is the only white silkie I have.

I have a silkie rooster who was an accidental hatch while I had a mixed color pen. We had a tree fall onto a few of our pens so we combined pens while we made repairs. This rooster was from an egg laid by either a blue cuckoo silkie or a splash silkie hen with a white naked neck silkie roo who...

I set my third batch off eggs since purchasing my Brinsea Ovation Ex 28 and was candling them for the first time this hatch. I noticed when I put the lid back on that the sprocket or cap on the end of the turning motor that is supposed to sit in the turning link was gone. It had fallen off and...

I was out of town for 6 days with chickens in husbands care. he knows the difference between a chicken and a cow but he isn't a chicken whisperer. He wouldn't have noticed if something appeared wrong while I was gone. Yesterday I noticed my ayam cemani pullet looking not quite right but she was...

If it is a chimera I wonder if it will be fertile.

hatched the first few days of Sept if I remember correctly

yes the color change does down the neck but is less noticeable on the body. in the chick photo you can see it on the naked chest but it is not as vivid as on the back of the neck.