We occasionally give them oyster shell crumbles but they don't seem to like it and just eat everything else... Thanks for the response, I will try to give her more calcium :)
Here is a picture of her egg: (It's just membrane, no shell)
She is a Red Star and she has been our best layer, with massive eggs every day and in the beginning she laid twin eggs for a week straight.
She eats the same food as all of our other chickens which is calcium rich for layers. All of...
So we bought four chicks from Tractor Supply Co, and they had 'sexed' chicks but our white leghorn shows more male characteristics. she/he's smaller than the rest and her/his crest was larger than the others at a younger age, but we're not sure...
I ton't think this will help but the Midnight...
Hey! We got an unsexed chick here, and since Tractor Supply Co has horrible labeling, we don't know what breeds they are. We thought the yellow one was a golden comet, or gold sex link, but the feathers are all white. We are pretty sure the yellow one is a pullet, but not the brown one.
What...
Thanks this is very good advice. We didn't know he was broad breasted until he grew way bigger than our other turkeys.
Are gray slate turkeys okay as pets?? We know they're meat birds :(
We are keeping a BBB as a pet. He is three and a half months old, and was fine until recently.
Recently, his snood and caruncles have been turning red when we try to move him somewhere, and he puffs up and starts biting us, establishing dominance I think? He hasn't broke skin yet, but his bites...