So she said, "You couldn't do magic if you tried" and then I said "Yeah? well I can any recreate a scene from Alien" and she was like "Nah-uh" and then I was was like
"SURPRISE!!!"
To be honest, I found it on google... it looks very much to me like some ex-battery hens that I bought a few years ago who had been caged but that is pretty much the "full molt" I was thinking of which was why I originally asked how long it had been since they molted.
Sounds Good ! I don't usually pay TOO much attention to the roosts. And you've probably got it covered but I must just say if I were you, I'd boot the chickens out for a couple of hours with the pyremthrin!
It sounds like you have plenty of room in your coop. How long ago did they molt and please don't take offence but is their bedding clean? What I do when my birdies stop laying as well, is I give them a load of poultry fattener for a few days. That generally works as a sort of "Berocca Boost!"...
As far as I'm aware, lice live on the birds themselves, but as the birds move around and lay down etc. the lice are transported onto the bedding. Were it me, I would be cleaning out the barn as well as you could to be sure. (unless you use the deep litter method and then the top layer or two...
Sorry, I haven't visited this site in a while so I am only just seeing all of your comments. CCCCCCCCHICKENS: thank you very much for your kind comment! theawesomechick: I did mean spots on the outside(as opposed to streaks) :) but thank you for your comment! buggymuffin: she was actually the...
I know that they look a way younger than they are but they really are six weeks I promise.
Here is a picture of the runner parents, sorry it's a mess around them but a combination of heavy rain and wet ducks does that around here!
Drake in the middle. The babies, we have two yellow, two dark...
I hatched them myself and have hatched from the same parents before. The runners are also featherless but they are just under a week younger. They are on poultry and duck grower, the self same as I always raise ducks on and they started on broiler high protein grower. They moved from the...
Hi, I have six pekin ducklings and nine indian runner ducklings that are six weeks old this week. Although I have hatched quite a few times before I've never seen this problem; They haven't grown any feathers. At all. They are still all downy and fluffy and just sort of getting bigger like a...