My pullet has been vaccinated against Mareks. She has wry neck syndrome. I thought there might be way to stop the head spinning. She is on vitamin therapy and separated from the others. I feel so bad for her.
I have a 5 month old Crevecour with wry neck. I have been treating her with vet E, Selenium and vitamin B complex. I have had her to the vet and she tried a foam collar, but the pullet, Cora, became too stressed from it. I am glad I read that it takes some time to get better because I had...
I have a plastic net over the whole yard so hawks can't get my young chickens. I have a couple of Crevecours and I don't think they are able to see well, so I am considering a crest-cut. I have never done it before and I am nervous about doing it.
I have several buff rocks at present. They are beautiful and decent layers. I got them from Ideal Hatchery in Texas. The females are terrific, the males are strange.
I see very little interest in Buff Wyandottes. I think they are beautiful birds that should be kept as an extant breed. I had a few, but only one right now. A problem that I noticed in some was the point of the rose comb going up rather than down to follow the head. They are not the best...
Wow, I had some black Minorcas from Tommy Stanley. They were beautiful, big with nice combs. My male, Charlemagne, won Champion Mediterranean at the Sussex show some years ago. I wish I still had them. Good black Minorcas are difficult to find.
I have had myriad roosters. Some have been the nicest birds and others have been human aggressive. I had to re-home 2 of them because they went after my daughter when she was little. I would not kill a chicken any more than I would kill a dog or cat. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or...
I think that birds vary greatly, as far as personality is concerned. I have known many Rhode Island Reds, hens and roosters, and I have never known an aggressive one. I have had many, many New Hampshires and there too, they were always nice until I did get one aggressive male, but he wasn't...
I have a New Hampshire rooster. He lives with 2 New Hampshire hens. They are really quality standard New Hampshires and I wanted to breed them. I tried 3 clutches, 2 under hens and one in an incubator. Nothing hatched and it seems that nothing was fertile. I had never heard of a rooster...