This spring I hatched 3 olive eggs. The dad is a French copper maran. All three were girls. One is all black, the other two have gold necks. Two of them are laying. Raven, the all black, is laying brown. Her sister is laying army green. It shouldn't be possible for Raven to lay brown eggs should...
I noticed one of my Gold Star pullets (Rosie) was slow to eat the meal worms I threw out on Tuesday morning. She was stumbling to the right with her wing out. I got her separated from the others. She is still showing neurological signs and doesn't seem to be eating what I would consider normal...
Aug 2 my dad brought two new pullets home from the feed store. One was sick. I treated both girls with Tetracycline that we got at the feed store. Took about a week and it cleared up. Yesterday I moved them from quarantine to the intro pen. Now I hear the second pullet rattling!! I'm going to...
Any ideas on what type of cockerel this is? He was given to my friend to replace the mean cockerel she raised with her pullets. Any help is appreciated!
I have three beautiful birds whose mother was supposedly a Welsummer. Below is a picture of the father. Someone told me that my pullets looked like Silver laced Wyandotte crosses. But today someone said that my cockerel is not a SLW but a Patridge Wyandotte. Any help is appreciated!!
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So it's pretty warm in Pa right now and I just starting making my young pullets sleep in the large coop with the hens. Generally the coop door is open all night but I had closed it to make sure everyone stayed in for two nights (temps were much cooler at the time). Well yesterday something...