I'm thinking of adding a couple of sexlinks (one red, one black) to my flock. I know that they lay a LOT of eggs, but for how many years? I have a 3.5 year old BCM that is still giving me three or so eggs a week (what a good girl!) but she does slow down every now and again. Could I expect a...
I'm pretty new to this site so please forgive me if this has been addressed before! I have grown out two BBS Copper Marans of my own breeding (first time, newbie at that!). The blue in the first photo is definitely a cockerel as he has bee quite verbose in his crowing. The splash is the one...
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I'm new to quail, but not so new to chickens. This might have been discussed before but I thought ask BYC list how to minimize aggression in the Coturnix quail.
Background - I hatched Cot eggs shipped to me earlier this year. Had a pretty good hatch rate (8 out of ten), so far so...
Does anyone worry about possible contamination from chemicals in plastic totes or garbage cans that are used to store chicken feed? I use a couple of totes I got at Walmart, but I was thinking perhaps "food safe" containers might be a better choice. After all, what the girls eat, we eat...