Ideal Order on 3/13/2024 (15 bantam chicks) was great. Only one loss, all the others are super healthy and alert. Love the color varieties, this hatchery has the hardiest Old English Game Bantam Lines and are suitable for the Virginia cold/hot/humid fluxuating climate.
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I've got 6 week old Silver Sebrights and don't see any comb growth. Wondering how old they might age up to if any are going to sprout a big bright comb and waddles.
No poultry vets in area. 5-week-old OEGB pullet is in penguin stance gasping for air (no rasp, on medicated feed, no other chicks showing any symptoms of anything like a respiratory distress. No discharge, no blood, empty crop, no fluid or vent liquid, no mites).
Her tongue is just straight up...
My flock is growing up (4 weeks) it's been quiet a few years since I last raised chickens. I will have a couple banty roosters, silkies and other Bantam hens.
What do you recommend feeding them and starting at what age? They're currently on Purina Medicated Chick Starter (monitoring silkies...
Our babies chicks are on the way! Are you getting chicks from Cackles soon? How are they doing? I'll post photos when ours arrive.
We ordered 27:
* 5x Grey Japanese Bantams
* 5x Mottled Japanese Bantams
* 5x Silver Sebright Bantams
* 5x Mille Fleur d'Uccle Bantams
* 5x Silkies
* 1x Crele OEGB...
As some of you know, I'm getting very close to finishing my my bachelors in Agriculture (December 2017, a semester ahead of schedule). I finally have an opportunity to have some chickens on the university farm, but need a project proposal so I can apply for a grant to help purchase the flock...
Once upon a time, a few years back actually, I was starting to wrap up my chicken exhibition flock because I would be attending university that fall (by no means did I want to purge myself of my flock, but it was better in the long run because a little girl got all of them and was just getting...
I had purchased a four chickens a while back, 1 rooster and 3 hens. Now my other rooster began crowing wars between their pens and they're too loud. So I'm giving him to someone I bought chickens from a while back. I offered to send a hen he came with but she just wants to breed him to a hen she...
Is there a special bird in your life?
One that shares a passion with you?
Can you see yourselves together in the long run?
How about at an online chicken show contest?
Sounds like a plan me. Well, what are you waiting for? This is your soul chicken after all and a fun contest...
So this is a design for a chicken set up I'd like, the website I found is FREE, and you can see your designs in 2-D or 3-D which is really cool so I wanted to share.
This is the link:
http://floorplanner.com/
Now if I could only get this built.
I have 104 as of now and I was just wondering how much everyone else has? I have four brown eggs on my ovation page and it says, "Whittni is becoming more distinguished" ...How about you?
The ovation page is located on the left side of your profile page :)
Enter your banty chickens and ducks! Fill out the form below or include the information in the form in your entry. There'll be a few winners that get a coloring page of their entry! Have fun!!
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