Recent content by HarpyHaven

Looks like a black Australorp to me. The first one.

I've used paper towels to lower humidity in my incubator to be honest. It's silly, but it worked.

I think all but Big Boi is a cockerel.

I used to work for Atwoods. I honestly HATE how they handle the chicks. They wouldn't allow us to put lids on the containers to keep customers who had no idea what they were doing from handling chicks. Kids would throw chicks and chicks would become sick from all the people handling them. What...

I've got a ten month old Bordercollie Aussie mix and she used to be super bad about hurting my birds. I lost a turkey and a meat bird to her. Frankly, I was told to beat her with the dead bird and it worked. It was horrifying on both sides, but she left those birds alone. Next was working on my...

I'm thinking a hen, but I could be wrong. I'm still pretty new to the breed. So far, I've come to understand they're super difficult to sex. I just discovered one of my "pullets" is a young roo by the new hackle feathers and he's two months old.

From what I've come to understand, there is a domestic line. Those ducklings are banded from birth and have special papers to prove that they're not wild.

It played in a shallow water dish for a bit, but when I took over its care, I gave it a regular chick waterer. It's napping on a bed of pine shavings right now.

We already know that it already needs special treatment and we're calling the warden in the morning.

This is Chuck the wood duck.

Yes. The hatchery the store goes through doesn't have any wood ducks. We're guessing someone found it wild and just ditched it there.

We found a wood duckling that we suspicion was ditched in a local feed store. Are wood ducks good for showing? I have no experience in showing, but would like to get my sisters into it. What do I need to know?