Ok, I know that this is a chicken forum, but I need predator help as I feel our chickens are now at risk. Our show-quality mini-lop (just won best of show - my 11 year old shows him too )was killed visciously overnight. It was eaten in the neck and chest area to the bone, but the entrails were...
I have two guys I can't figure out! I have tried lots on my own I promise!
This first is a large white cockerel - sold to us as a bantam chick but he's huge compared to the others, but still not as big as the standards. He has a meaty body and yellow feet and feathers on his shanks only, not...
Is this an EE pullet? (sold as Ameraucana chick to us at IFA so I have since learned that feed stores can't sell Ameraucanas - they are instead Easter Eggers? Is that correct?)
Anyway, she is a bantam, and she is 16 wks old. Her face and comb have turned bright pink the last week. Up until now...
Our baby (the human one) eats a hardboiled egg yolk every morning but because of his age he's not to have the white yet. So I gave the white to our new pullets this morning and they loved it. I chopped it up. Can I feed this to my pullets as a treat? Or will it give them a taste for eggs and...
We just got 4 new pullets that were said to be 2.5 months old. The seller said they are as follows:
Black sex link pullet
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Barred Rock Pullets (pic not the best - sorry)...
Today we got 4 beautiful 10 wk old pullets (two sex-link and two barred rocks). They are standard size. We also have a small flock of 3 bantams cockerels and one standard cockerel and one Americauna bantam pullet. They about 16 weeks old. We wanted pullets so we were in the process of finding...