Not sure if my hen is sex-linked, but I crossed a Barred Rock rooster with a Wheaton AM, and got two babies. The female is completely black, and the male was completely white, but he didn't make it. I've always wondered if they were sex-linked.
Same thing happened to the Salmon Faverolle I rescued, she had an open wound just like that. She was the roosters favorite hen to mate with. This rooster did not have any spurs either, his toe nails must have ripped her open. I didn't do anything for this bird except remove her from the...
Is this a Salmon Faverolle? I rescued this hen about a month ago. It was a rooster's favorite hen to mate with, and the other hens almost bullied it to death. It would hide all day and only come out at night to eat, after everyone else had gone to bed. The rooster loved this hen so much her...
My main hobby is growing rare peppers and tomatoes. I also read on this site that chickens are immune to caspium, so I decided to test this for myself. I gave my chickens a Ghost Chile(Bhut Jolokia) which is over 1 million Scoville Units. Let me just say this, they are not immune to caspium...
Spinkle DE or Sevin on the coop floor or where ever the flies are hanging out, and get a fly trap. Since flys are bad with every livestock, the feed store has some pretty nice fly traps.
I told my friend(who breeds and shows pits) about your Pit-Chihuahua mix, and he almost had a heart attack! He said "I wonder how that happened?" (you could tell he was picturing a Pit and a Chihuahua having sex), and then said "Nevermind! I don't even want to know!". haha
It was too funny...
I have a spoiled dog as well, but I'm talking about a permanent out-door dog. My best friend, who also raises chickens, raises and shows game-bread pitbulls(the original pit, not the new mixes that they call pitbulls). I feel sorry for the bob-cat that enters his yard!
I'm not a fan of...