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My girls have found that the drain from the A/C puts out cold water. They take turns standing in it to cool off. Very smart of them actually but terrible for feet feathers!! Apparently they also made a mud puddle and cool off standing in that too. :(

Color identification help please if possible. She's not a pure breed of any sort but comes from a buff Colombian color brahma mix hen and a white sultan rooster. I love her color and would like to figure out how to reproduce it considering I no longer have her parents. (the speckled lavender...

There's some really old topics about hatchery orientals. I feel that since that has not been updated in a while it's time to show some. I bought some Malay, Shamo, Thai's and Saipans from Ideal. I'm not familiar with any of these breeds, never had any before or knew anyone who did. These are...

I picked up one of my juvie sultans today to look him over, make sure the flock is well, etc. It's pretty easy to see mites if they get them just because they are white chickens with pink flesh. Head was mite free and no sign of other bugs there. Flipped him over to check his vent and right...

So I was thinking about shipped eggs the other day and since I had just received some with detached aircells, it occurred to me that one of the reasons a air cell will detach is due to evaporation inside the egg. With a large air cell scrambling is more likely just due to the fact there is more...

Just got my babies from Ideal. I placed the order early January as soon as they were available. Ideal moved my order up from 3/1 to 2/22 with my permission :) I also said packing peanuts were ok. My order was 2 pullets each of Standard cochins in partridge, silver laced, gold laced and...

I know the genders but I cant figure out of if they are Japanese or OEGBs. One pair of parents were colored similar to mahogany OEGB but the rooster was short legged like Japanese. These chicks are about 2 months old. Thanks!

My husband showed me this, someone posted it to his facebook. It's really interesting but does make me ask a few Hmmm questions. Number one is exactly how do they get the rooster sperm to fertilize it? Can eggs be fertilized after being layed or is there a reason for fertilization to happen...

I live in florida and it seems every year when it's wet snakes come to my bird aviaries. I haven't lost any of my chickens to snakes and we haven't ever found a venomous one, but the rat snakes and chicken snakes are decimating my finch population. The aviaries are 1/2" hardware cloth. We...

My incubator is over loaded. I just checked all of my eggs and fertility is at 100%. Eggs are from large fowl Sultans, I am getting a grey chick now and then which may be splash. Eggs range in sizes from small/medium from a pullet to large from the older girls. My flock is 2 pullets, 4...

Just have a few questions for people who breed crested like Sultans, Silkies, Polish etc. I just pulled a dead chick from it's shell to figure out what went wrong(sultan). It was missing a eye, no socket there it seems since I could not even see a opening for the eye ball and it was severely...

I have a turkey poult which was zipping last night and struggling. I went ahead and popped the lid off it's shell and the membrane was really thick. I doubt he would have made it out one his own. The previous hatched poult was fine. But this guy once he came out of the bottom of the shell...

I intended to do a project with Sultans but it has taken a early turn and it appears my sultan roo topped a Mille Fleur hen. I'm positive the egg was mille due to it's cream color. But out pops a white, 5 toed chick with a dark(black) colored blotch on fuzz on it's side. It has no crest so...

I'm trying to breed Sultans. I've struggled now for about 6 months with first issues of the small flock of adults I bought having worms and a heavy infestation of mites. Now they are back healthy again and I'm getting the occasional egg. The problem I've seen so far is the majority of eggs do...

Well I ordered the special priced feather leg bantam assortment. I like surprises :) I was looking forward to getting some D'Uccles and really, really hoping to get a sultan or two. Although I did not get any sultans I think I got one Mille Feur D'Uccle. Ideal sent 30 chicks and that was...

I bought a porcelain D'uccle hen at auction along with a porcelain roo. I thought the eggs were from the OEG hens until they hatched with fuzzy feet. I was expecting cream eggs from the porcelain since my mille's came from cream eggs, but I guess the cream eggs I did get were from a OEG haha...

Looking for Sultan and or Mille Fleur eggs (or maybe even chicks). Sultan parents must have 5 toes, beards, ear muffs and of course head poofs. I say this because I have ordered Sultan eggs before and ended up with some 4 toed chicks hatch. I'm looking for good quality Sultans to help...

History is I bought these chickens about 2 months ago. They were in heavy molt and a bit dirty. Being a complete nOOb, I didn't realize the dirt was from mites. One of the hens always had a milky eye, when I picked her up to look closer I found a feather turned into her eye so I plucked it...

I know this topic has been beat to death because I've read nearly every one. What I can not figure out is the proper dosage. Everyone seems to have their own formula and methods for this and what I would like to know is which one is the right one? I hoped I could get away with using the...

This is Chuck, I came across him and 3 hens at a livestock auction and since I wanted pheasants for a while I quickly snapped them up. They were in terrible condition (note the tail). We have had Chuck and his ladies for about 3 weeks now and his shimmer is coming back and his tail is growing...