What I done in the garden today was:
-Transplant my small Butternut Squash plant into the ground. I am growing one in a pot going up a trellis, so I am going to try this one on the ground.
-Transplant 7 Beefsteak Tomato young plants into new pots.
-Transplant Marketmore Cucumber seedlings into...
I am thinking their organs failed on them. It cannot be a coincidence that multiple people have had their ACs drop dead at around the same age. The AC has gotten so popular that so many people are breeding them and they are being crazily inbred.
Are you asking if they tried to pin it on you because they don't want to admit the possibility of a large amount of incest in their ACs? If that it what you are asking, then it is possible. Once they admit that their ACs are heavily incest, there may be less people wanting to buy them because of...
In the process of getting pure black ACs, there is alot of inbreeding going on and that causes many defects, whether it be physical or health-wise.
It would definitely be good to contact them!
It is very sad to lose chickens. It could be bad genetics due to inbreeding from whoever you got them from. Did the other person you mention get their AC from the same breeder?
I have decided to keep doing weigh-ins of my cockerels to see how much they gain each week since this is a new experience for me. I want to be able to see what weight they are at when I end up processing them so I can see what their yield is compared to their weight when not processed.
The...
Having curled toes should not affect their quality of life. I have actually had some that had toes that corrected on their own. A curved toe is nothing to worry about!
The only thing I have heard about the chickens in the back was a woman offering me a 3 legged rooster that they had in the back. This was at a TSC I uses to go to before I moved. I didn't take it though because at the time I was not looking for a rooster.
Whenever I get the chance to talk...
Very much pullet. BOs grow combs very fast as cockerels. Here is a picture of my BO cockerel when he was 10 weeks old. Him and his brother are identical with comb growth. My hens are like yours.
Of course! I have a rooster that suddenly went lame in his leg for no reason, thinking a sprain from jumping from roosting. After a few months he isn't limping anymore!
Maybe your hen jumped from a roost and landed on it wrong and the pain was causing her to shut down. My rooster had no pain in...