Recently we had a goose catastrophy and a fox got into our coop and took out one of our two young geese. He left everything else except one young roo. So we were left with one goose of unknown gender. Not good. I ordered two more babies and they should be coming this week. In the mean time...
I have two roosters. One Blue mix and a very pretty EE roo. The pretty roo is not a nice guy. He will come after me from behind if I am not careful. The funny thing is that my Blue will come running from where ever he is to protect me and fight off the other rooster. It is funny to see and...
Hi goose people! I have 4 week old African goslings and they are loosing the fuzz on their backs but I don't see any feathers yet. Is this a normal part of feathering out or is there something wrong? They seem otherwise healthy and active. These are the first goslings I have raised.
So I am getting a trio of African geese in the spring. I want to build them something like a dog house type building I think? I want them to free range but also to be able to lock them up when visitors are expected. I don't know what size building they need? Should I brood them in there so...
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Just thought I would share, I know nothing about these sheds but they look like chicken coop material to me!
I had to move to a different house at the beginning of May. It wasn't that far away and I intended to move my shed coop with me. Well that didn't work out and the poor chickens were semi homeless, free ranging from dog crates, and of course it was raining so I had to get tarps, which of course...
Silkie chicks for sale. Various ages, one about 7 weeks, blue. Chicks 3 weeks and some 1 week old. Mostly blacks and white with some that may be partridge with blue undertones. I am no expert though on Silkie colors. The roosters were out of splash hens, one is white and one is black.
No shipping, local pick up only. This picture is from the last hatch as these are hatching now under the hen. So far seven available. Hens are mostly partridge. Roo is buff. Roo has correct mulberry comb but comb color could be a bit darker. Chicks should have correct skin color and 5...
This is for five total. Pick up only. 3 weeks old, Healthy. 3 are also 1/2 barred rock and are barred looking now. Two are 1/2 possibly production red? I am not sure exactly they could also be non NN chicks from the NN hen or from the Black Star hen. but they are dark black with some white...
OK this one is a for sure crowing roo:
But I can't decide if this one is a slower developing roo or a pullet:
These are a large comb breed on both sexes so I am not sure if I can go by that. I want to rehome these so I would really like to know what they are. We are not too fond of this...
They are 7 months old now and such cuties. I am not good at this picture thing but I am going to try.
This is Buster, who is actually a hen. We thought for the longest time that she was a he. She was Buster because she went around helping the other chicks bust out of their eggs when they...
He is a cutie but non vaulted, though his brothers and sisters were vaulted. Tougher than the vaulted silkies though and able to see where he is going and protect the girls! He was hatched Thanksgiving week and so is about 20 weeks old and all boy. He has five toes and black skin. I can send...
Yesterday I went to TSC for chicks and they had two bins set up. One with straight run golden comets for $1.86 and the other with sexed pullets for $2.34. OK that's funny . The whole POINT of sexlinks is I can pick out the girls. I get that someone might want roos but why not just put all...
The one silkie I have that is obviously a Roo is 5 months old and has been crowing for a few weeks. His crowing is not very loud, will he get louder as he gets older? Also the crowing rooster is the poorest quality silkie we have, the only one that has no vault. Do the vaultless silkies tend...
I have a seven month old Redstar pullet who had never layed an egg. The day before yesterday we had an extra egg so I guess it was her but we are not 100 percent sure because there is another pullet not started yet. Our Redstar, Julia, has been listless for about three days. She eats a little...