Well I got some project orpingtons from a great breeder a few months back all look a little different ! We raise silver partridge, golden laced,silver laced and lavender orpingtons. We do have a lemon cuckoo roo and a blu roo by th orpinton as well my question is are these 2 we got fro. The...
Is there a book or class that has helped anyone on genetics? I have searched lots of threads here on certain genetic questions but just feel more lost than where I started seems like there is a lot to learn for a beginner???????
I like his coloring any advice on what hens to put with him and possible outcomes 11 week olds Orpington his genetics come from free ranging blues, jubilees and silver partridge hens and Roos
I have had some bad luck lately just as my broody hatched some chicks I noticed my flock to have come down with dry pox with exemption to one that seems to have both wet and dry or a secondary infection from the dry pox anyway I took the chicks away to my home brooder hoping maybe some had not...
Polish hen has had ongoing eye issue with swelling and drainage treated a month ago with Tylan injected for 5 days and it got much better with only residual swelling now much worse with clear smelly drainage
This was just discovered during a lice treatment yesterday it did have quite a bit...
This may be obvious to some but my question is I have a buff silkie roo and then 1 of each blue splash golden laced and partridge Cochins it's obvious who two of the chicks came from but there is one solid black chick I'm wondering which cochin produced this offspring with the buff roo
Thanks
Let me start off by saying I am no expert or even novice of chicken breeding or genetics just have a mixed flock with hens that love to go broody and a love for raising chicks up to adulthood and getting those first laid eggs!!
I have a buff silkie his name is Hulk Hogan I have hatched out...
Gender guess please first one is 18 weeks old no sign of crow or laying the next two are 6 weeks old so may be early but if you have a guess please share thanks
Rained a lot here in south tx which rarely happens saw some things on my soaked girls I need help with that I usually don't see when they are fluffy
Hen 1 eye bulge
Hen 2 treated for mites last week cause I saw some redness but this is like a big red water ballon did not feel egg in abdomen
Rescued Brahma hen several months ago !! Supposed to be around 1 year had lice treated that and looked to be either molting or just lots of feather loss from lice but has grown feathers back now . My main concern is the neon yellow urates this has been going on for 2 weeks ... She has not laid...
I have had a polish hen for about a month now I did not quarantine before putting with the rest of the flock and I had to separate some peckers a few days but everything has been going great the last few weeks I even saw her dust bath yesterday as well as eating and drinking and got up one the...
I've read that most of u say to leave alone and I'm trying this is day 24 I candled yesterday to see if egg was still viable before throwing out since it was so over due !! I saw movement and beak in air cell about 12:00 pm yesterday still seeing beak in air cell and movement this morning when I...