Recent content by Viergacht

Thanks. She laid sporadically but this has been months now, and nothing. I haven't seen any evidence of egg-eating, and I'm around most of the day, so I don't think it's that.

So I have a pair of Serama chickens, a hen and a rooster (Gomez and Morticia). They have a pen indoors because there's too much wildlife around for them to be safe outside unsupervised. Up until this past winter, Morticia would lay a little egg about once a week. Over Xmas I had some family...

I wonder if it's something like those parrots who are bald. There's a couple on Instagram.

We've got a collie, a sheltie, two pugs (mother and daughter) and a puggle. The hens run around free in the backyard. We've never had a problem with any of the dogs, thank goodness. The puggle is very elderly, she was my sister's dog and we took her in after my sister passed. She has about 3...

I think my two serama chickens are part frizzle - their feathers don't curl, but they have a very soft, almost ostrich-plume texture completely unlike the big hens. I don't have the breeder's email so I can't ask any more, but I don't recall them saying anything about the parents being frizzle...

I use puppy pads in the crate to absorb some of the moisture so my hen isn't sitting in her own waste. They're not comfortable to nest on - it's worked for my three that always seem to get broody.

I just got a pair of Serama chicks recently - they've turned out to be a girl and a boy! I know they were fairly rare, and I've certainly had a hard time finding them. Luckily I came across a couple in Gettysburg who breeds them :)

Yep. I was checking them for mites and not watching how close I got my face to her beak so it was my fault. The guy at the walk-in clinic was way more upset and worried than I was, which kind of freaked me out where I hadn't been before! He sent me to the ER, but it was just a scratch on my...

I hope he keeps on doing well. He's very lucky to have survived that!

Me and my Ayam Serama chicks :) They don't have names yet, right now I'm just calling them Spot and Stripe for their head markings. They're very cuddly little birds!

Puberty recently hit 5-month old Gibson, my ringneck dove, like the proverbial truck. All of a sudden he's been alternately preening and pecking at me, and now he's started, to put it bluntly, humping my hands. His body feathers poof out, he raises and flutters his wings, and he pretty much...

My Easter Egger, Estelle. Any ideas what she might be crossed with?

I'm bored enough I kind of want to try hatching grocery store quail eggs. I don't have an incubator, but I do have a Barred Rock hen that acts like she's about to go broody . . . my question is, would a hen sit on quail eggs, given the size difference? I know hens will hatch out ducks and...

That's good to know! I've raised various songbirds (we used to live in a neighborhood with a lot of stray cats) and they're so fragile.

I feel bad that they've been taken away from their parents so young, and that they might be taken by someone who isn't able to care for them properly. I've ended up with several kittens and puppies over the years that people got too young, with the best intentions, but then couldn't handle...