I showed my husband your guys’ math conversions and we were indeed under dosing. We’ll repeat tomorrow with the correct dosage and hopefully I’ll have a happy update in the near future
My husband and I were going back and forth on if we have northern vs red mites. I’m hoping someone can chime in based on the video but from what we’ve read the northern live on the birds, the red mites live in the coops and attack the birds at night. I didn’t find mites on the birds themselves...
I’ll be honest I’m not a mite expert and this is my first experience with them so I’m not sure which I have. I assumed red mites because my husband came in freaked out after putting them away last week saying he had a bunch of tiny red bugs crawling all over him when a hen flapped her wings...
I have a mite problem. I’ve attached a video showing them on the door to our coop. It lost image image resolution loading it up so hopefully you can see it well enough. We opted to treat with Elector PSP and used 1/4 tsp per 24 oz water. We cleaned the coops and thoroughly sprayed them down...
Sorry the title it supposed to say “barred rock roo?” Stupid autocorrect. This is a hatchery chick, about 6 weeks old now. Only got 1 so I have no one to compare it to. Did I get unlucky and pull the rooster from a clutch of baby pullets?
Hello! I’m crashing in to ask a quick (or not so quick?) question about genetics: DD vs splash.
Are they the same? If they’re different, how does DD fit into the BBS picture?
I’m reading some thoughts that splash is always white with red but that further confuses me as other breeds splash...
Been a while since I posted. I lost all but one of my spring babies. My beautiful roo, blue.
Today I picked up a young little hen, also a hatch from last spring. I look forward to some baby flowers in my future!
Not yet. I only have 6 and they're currently 7 weeks so they have a lot more changes coming their way as they mature. But here's an example of one of them in 7 short weeks.
I haven't had much luck finding such a page. I've been photographing my own from hatchlings on up to document the color changes. They really do look like different birds every week.
My 6 baby flower dinosaurs are now 7 weeks. Some I'm pretty confident of the sex. Two (blue and pink) I'm still a little iffy. I'm also curious as to what you think of purple's crest (too big already?) and blue's color (sno?). Appreciate any feedback :)
Purple (roo)
Blue: Leaning roo...
The latest pics. 4 week old baby dinosaurs. I think my two crested chicks are roos (yellow/purple). Blue I'm on the fence with. He's my biggest but I'm just not sure. The rest I'm leaning pullets. But I'm a newb so tell me if I'm wrong :)
Poor little green's toe went a little cockeyed.
Thank you for that feed back! Since I am clueless my plan was to grow out everything I have and start weeding down my males as faults became apparent. I'm not going to give a crested male the boot, but I am hoping the big winner happens to not have one. Expect lots of pictures as they grow up...
Yes I'm pretty positive purple and yellow are my crested babes. Funny enough with both of them I didn't notice the crest until I took a picture of their profile and was all "oh. A crest." Does size ever play into the sex early on? Blue is a beast compared to the others and has been since day 1...