Recent content by Gene Neill

As it happens, this is the first cockerel we have had which was raised by a hen. The others were raised in a brooder. Well, timing sure is a funny thing. I just started this thread at noon today. Would you believe at 7PM I looked out the kitchen window, and there was the dadgum cockerel, just...

Indeed they are at that! Yes, we have various ages of hens.

Hello everyone! We have an accidental cockerel right now, four months old, a Hoover's Hatchery olive egger, purchased at Rural King. He is only the third rooster we've had, and it's been a while since the last one. So I wonder if my memory of the first two is outta whack. One was a Welsummer...

Thanks! I see none of those telltale signs on her comb or wattles, or any of the other birds. I'll continue the metronidazole. In the meantime, do the experts around here recommend treating all the other birds too, just for prevention?

Honestly, I didn't think her breath was that bad. We started giving her metronidazole, but if it's pox we're wasting our time I guess.

My veterinarian is a quack. But I do have a microscope. That's canker in your pic?

Yes, I've read that article, along with just about everything else on the www. I'm still not sure. What do YOU think?

Thanks! It always struck me that this "leghorn" chicken never fit the "nervous and flighty" description people give them. This girl is very alert, but in a good way. Curious, friendly, always among the first to come running up to me. In any case, I'm actually glad she's NOT a leghorn. I'm not...

I'm new to chickens, so my eyes are not well trained for these details yet. Where is the barring? Would that be the little white spots on her back, about three on each side? Thanks!

Hmmm, welbar, never heard that name before! I'm speed-googling here ... seeing the word "rare" a lot. She was a TSC chick, would they be selling welbars? What about her white earlobes? The images I'm seeing of welbars all have red earlobes. Speaking of earlobes, I will say this pullet seems...

As our young pullets have begun laying, I've been trying to figure out who the HECK is leaving dark brown eggs in the box. The only birds not positively matched with specific eggs are an EE, a black Australorp, and this brown leghorn. The EE and the BA are not squatting or even looking at the...

Heat will not be an issue at all. Compost has to be 2-3 feet thick to even begin to heat up, and even then, that's before it is actually COMPOST. Compost itself does not heat up, it is biologically inert. The material(s) get while they are BECOMING compost, a.k.a. "composting". Hope that makes...

I really need some of that. I'm using astroturf now, but yours sounds way better. You don't remember what it was called do you?

Howdy from Ocala! Are we neighbors??