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  1. Altairsky

    Please help! Bully chicken.

    Your bully is damaging that one girl more than pinless peepers would hurt the bully. In this case the most effective solution is to get rid of the bully or get rid of the bullied, pinless peepers might be the next best fix for the problem.
  2. Altairsky

    Please help! Bully chicken.

    you can use pinless peepers on the bully
  3. Altairsky

    Possible heart failure

    I had a pigeon with heart failure. With heart failure she would be breathing really fast with open beak. If she's brerathing normally it's probably something else.
  4. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    This is Kiwi's first broody experience. All my broodies are such good moms! I won't blame her if there are a few quitters, it's fall and the egg quality is awful here. None of my own eggs were fertile and I struggled to find something decent for her to hatch.
  5. Altairsky

    What breed and gender are they?

    Both reds look like male and the white ones look like girls to me.
  6. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    #1 - olive egger @jxp Diddums #2 - olive egger @Ikslo Banana #3 - olive egger @thecatumbrella Fig #4 - araucana @BoundlessLove Olive Yew Fig is out! Oliveyew is pipping!
  7. Altairsky

    Free range question

    My chickens free range, I keep a treadle feeder in the coop. I don't have a run.
  8. Altairsky

    Bumping old threads - would this help? (xenforo add-on)

    I think there should be a pop-up warning about old threads. I myself almost replied to necroed threads a decade old without realizing. It enrages me because maybe I wasted 30 minutes of my life to answer an op that disappeared from the forums a dozen years ago! If there was a pop-up warning me...
  9. Altairsky

    Is two roos one too many for 13 hens??

    I think one roo per coop is enough trouble regardless of the number of hens. What works best IMHO is keep smaller flocks in multiple coops with one roo per coop. It mimics the natural society of wild chicken tribes.
  10. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    I think I heard a peep from Kiwi's nest! I'll not disturb her for the next 24-48 hours so don't expect pictures!
  11. Altairsky

    Is two roos one too many for 13 hens??

    I had a bachelor flock of 6, away from all females and they all crowed nonstop from 4am to 7am. When I merged them back into the main coop, they suddenly shut up, and now only my head rooster and the head rooster of the bachelor flock crows.
  12. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    I'll keep them until they start causing trouble.
  13. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Peach batch! The ones with the blue are those that had cocci
  14. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Nothing new so far! They'll hatch anytime between tomorrow and Wednesday
  15. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Caruso appears to be a boy!
  16. Altairsky

    Feeling awful for culling my rooster

    I'll probably keep him for another season. I wanted to try a different one because he's constantly on the verge of turning human aggressive, without actually being human aggressive. He's just trolling. He's been trolling for almost 2 years. As for flock dynamics, he couldn't be more perfect...
  17. Altairsky

    Feeling awful for culling my rooster

    No, he's a dual purpose, but even the bantams has a deeper crow than the ear-killing brain-devouring screech of my CL. I don't intend to inseminate chickens lol, I have enough of that with the cows 🤣 sadly it's a myth! The hen decides the size of the chick, regardless of the rooster. Small...
  18. Altairsky

    Bantam Rooster Contest!! (Ends September 30)

    #1 name Arlequin #2 breed Easter Egger (Bantam favaucana X Cream Legbar) All the offspring from his mother comes out bantam - under 700 grams #3 age (deceased birds allowed) 3 months but he's mature enough to mate adult hens and he's the head rooster of his bachelor flock made of dual purpose...
  19. Altairsky

    Scary amount of bloody diarrhea! Just left the Avian Vet with Phosphorus and negative stool sample tests for parasites and Cocc. Please HELP!

    This vet is a joke! That amount of blood could mean - cocci - rat poison - ingestion of a sharp object phosporous does absolutely nothing! And I mean, nothing at all.
  20. Altairsky

    Feeling awful for culling my rooster

    The hens like best the cockerels dad 🤣 Yep I already culled half of my bachelor flock. Suddenly all of them started crowing nonstop earlier than 5 am, at 6 am I had enough, jumped out of bed and culled all I could catch lol. Of those who are left, one is beautiful but I'll have to cull...
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