I'm not real sure how to put this but, I went to the market to sell some young chickens.
I don't like pricing them real high but your never going to get back what you put in.!
I'm sitting there, people ask how much for the little ones, being 5 week old white Rocks
I say $ 8.00. They are like...
I have a hen, the breeder is calling her a California White.
all the chicks are white, hens have a black dot on their heads.
all chicks have some black flecks but more on hens than roosters.
they are beautiful chickens but odd. anyone ever heard of them.?
I have gotten an addition to my flock and wonder what she is.?
I thought she was a Delaware hen. I then noticed she had cheeks like my eggers I used to have. I have hatched three batches
of eggs and get 2 of...
I have a Delaware hen that went broody and laid 10 eggs. I had no rooster so I knew they were no good.
I removed the eggs and hen. She is running around the yard not a care about the eggs. How long before
she starts laying again.? she doesn't seem to care and does not go near the spot she was...
I have a black jersey giant that shakes his head, he looks like he has water in his ears. he walks along and all of a sudden shakes his head a couple times. I thought it was a fly or bee bothering him but I don't see anything. He has no swollen areas, no signs of sickness, no sneezing or watery...
My 5 month old red sexlink has a huge bunch on her right wing. I noticed that last night she was holding her wing down, walking okay just favoring that wing.
I picked her up and found a big bunch on her wing. there doesn't seem to be any cuts etc. just a swollen bunch. could it be a snake bite...
I bought some beautiful Black and Partridge Cochins in May 2020
I am looking to get some info on them, when do they start laying, breeding etc.
I know its a couple years before their full grown.
They are such beautiful fun birds I can't wait to see them thrive as they all love to do
tricks for...
I recently bought 5 Black Jersey Giants, 5 splash Jersey Giants in June 2020.
They were two day old hatched. They all looked like beautiful chicks but one.
I mean he's pretty but off color. I'm told sometimes they will have some genetic
flaws. I paid top dollar for these chicks as they were to...
I breed heritage turkeys. This is my third year and I'm having so much fun. I have five different
breeds of heritage birds. We had a huge thunderstorm hit out of the blue causing chaos in my turkey pens. I had to put some different hens together, my Toms got out and begun fighting so I had to...
My three month old blue slate started acting funny two weeks ago, acting like he was drunk, unsteady on his feet, shaking his head a lot, using his wings for balance.
He's eating and drinking good, he just has trouble with balance.
I isolated him to a pen by himself because I was told maybe...
Last week I decided to change up the birds feed..I been feeding OMI feed, 16% protein.
Since I have good young roosters doing their job, I decided to go with sporting bird feed and starter feed for new chicks, turkeys and the rest of my crew..it has a 28% protein.
I figured it's better all...
HELP....my blue slate eggs started hatching..the first this morning at 8:15 am..
Took over 14hrs to break out, from the time I noticed his little crack..
He's 7 hrs old and can't hold his head up for too long..he keeps creeping around with his legs, and just a minute ago gave me a scare, he...
I have 7 turkeys all about the same ages. ( 6 months and 8 months.) They have a brand new barn, with roosts and stays nice and cozy. Its been easy to get them in nights.
but now I am having trouble getting one of the 8 month old Midget white hen to go in. Their run is huge and covered, 20ft X...
new updated pics of my Blue Slate Tom and hens
Tom ~my Heirtage Blue slate strutting his stuff..
Tom and Dash ~ Heritage Blue slates @ 6 months old
Trouble ~ my 8 month old Lavender Heritage Blue slate hen
the ladies munching on new clover coming up
Rubix cube~ 6 month old Bourbon Red...
top pics are black Orpington, buff and pencil Wyandotte and one Ameracauna chick.all hatched Nov.22,2016
second hatch: Dec. 25,2016 14 asst Silkies bieng mothered by a black bearded Silkie.
no pics yet of the 9 newborn Silkies that hatched on Jan.22,2017. funny how each Silkies that...
something weird this morning as my cinnamon queens started hatching..
Five hatched out great, right on time..# 6 hatched normal, but had a thick sac hanging off his butt, no yolk sac just a clear Jell sac that looked like the shape of the egg. The chick had little pieces stuck on him..I never...
Help..this morning I found my incubator had been unplugged by mistake.
It went down to 78° before I realized it..
So excited yesterday when checking that they were mostly all with chicks..
Did not want to open the bator right now, just 5 days until hatching time.
I was ready to pull them off...
white chick hatched from Blue Wyandotte egg on 11/7
pic # 2 of white chick
speckled grey chick from Blue Wyandotte egg hatched 11/9
second pic of speckled chick
pic of two Black Orpington chicks hatched on 11/9 true hatch..
my own black Silkie egg -chick hatched on 11/12
question: any ideas...