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  1. ChiefSuperFly

    Are these Jumbo?

    I have pearl greys and a pair of lavenders. The pearls are HUGE compared to the lavs and just about 5 months old. They are completely seperated from my chickens and I raided the nest and found a guinea egg the size of a medium chicken egg... I've got silkies and normally the guinea eggs are the...
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    Lucky then unlucky- mixed silkie?

    I bought a beautiful show quality (possibly?) silkie hen. Then I found a "trio" of white silkies for sale. Comes to find out it was 2 Roos and a hen :( I sold one roo and just recently sold the other because he was aggressive with my girls and even tried mounting my standard hens! So I have this...
  3. ChiefSuperFly

    Lucky then unlucky- mixed silkie?

    I bought a beautiful show quality (possibly?) silkie hen. Then I found a "trio" of white silkies for sale. Comes to find out it was 2 Roos and a hen :( I sold one roo and just recently sold the other because he was aggressive with my girls and even tried mounting my standard hens! So I have this...
  4. ChiefSuperFly

    Sexing 3 lavender ameraucanas-no crowing yet

    Fairly certain one is a hen. She isn't crouching yet :( I thought the other two were Roos.. but now I'm not sure! The one in the back is older than the front two and I'm suspecting that's the hen (Cloudy is her name)... and now I'm seeing a big comb on one of the youngsters... help!
  5. ChiefSuperFly

    Staggered in a hovabator

    I'm a newbie to hatching. As a birthday present we bought a 1602n hovabator still air model. First hatch was good on my terms and probably considered fair by most. Second hatch I had Guinea eggs set with chicken eggs on the same day and moved the chickens to a quickly put together hatcher. The...
  6. ChiefSuperFly

    Needing advice about Hay as bedding

    I always buy straw and use it as nesting material and I use it for deep coop flooring. However my other half said use this hay! The horses won't eat it because it's been on the ground. So we moved it to the coop and it was moist so I've got it outside to flip it around and dry it out real good...
  7. ChiefSuperFly

    Thoroughly disappointed-LOW fertility

    I snagged up every Guinea egg I could find and they have been in the incubator for 11 days now. I candled tonight and here's what I got 1 blood ring for sure and 1 possible. 13 Look infertile!! 5 possibly promising eggs. I only cracked the one sure blood ring and threw it out. What causes the...
  8. ChiefSuperFly

    Botulism I'm dreading

    LONG POST / REALLY NEED HELP ON HOW TO COVER POSSIBLE BOTULISM IN DIRT And I can't spray it off (gravel) and I need it to be affordable but the best solution! Our coop is seperated into 4 roosting rooms with feed and water all with a connecting run plus I have a main feed room I keep my...
  9. ChiefSuperFly

    2 hens no eggs-looking for advice

    I have a Brahma (Floggy) and an Orpington (Big Mama). Floggy say and hatched and her chick is maybe 2 months old maybe older I didn't mark my calendar since they were adopted in. She laid me 3 "golden eggs!" Aka dark or chocolate brown- the only one who gives me these. And now I get none! Big...
  10. ChiefSuperFly

    Obsessed with guinea eggs!

    two things: First I have HUGE (and atrociously annoying) Pearl grays. I started with 9, 3 male and 6 female and sold all but 1 male and 4 females. Now that people see how big and healthy these suckers are I'm getting asked if I'm selling any more- I'm not. Anyways! They were born May 5th of...
  11. ChiefSuperFly

    Lavender Ameraucana- I'm devastated

    I've got 3 younger lavs. The smallest one slipped between my feet into the feed room where I have a silkie pair. The silkie roo who is 6 months and hormonal jumped her! Grabbed her neck and mounted her. She's the smallest of the 3 at 16weeks. The day after her neck was twisted and she couldn't...
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    Thank u local post carrier >.<

    this is my second hatch and I like doing things the hard way lol I had collected blue eggs, I only get 2 a day currently and was wanting to do one more hatch- one wasn't enough! Then I bough some lavender guineas and to my surprise they are laying! So I snagged up a few eggs and set them all...
  13. ChiefSuperFly

    Mystery rooster and 15 wk lavs

    I've got a rooster that my mama gave me a year or so ago. He's a real well mannered fella. A friend of mine I call the chicken man said he looked part wyandotte. I don't think he's full leghorn but I feel like he's got some in him and can't they have a rose comb? The rose comb is a big beautiful...
  14. ChiefSuperFly

    Mystery rooster and 15 wk lavs

    I've got a rooster that my mama gave me a year or so ago. He's a real well mannered fella. A friend of mine I call the chicken man said he looked part wyandotte. I don't think he's full leghorn but I feel like he's got some in him and can't they have a rose comb? The rose comb is a big beautiful...
  15. ChiefSuperFly

    Thermometer/hydrometer mishap one day before hatch day

    First hatch! Tomorrow is "hatch day" Friday the 11th. I locked down on Tuesday the 8th. Wednesday a chick pipped and hatched Wednesday night. 4 more hatched today. Lots of comotion going on in the kitchen tonight! I wasn't thinking about laying the thermometer down! I had it standing up and it's...
  16. ChiefSuperFly

    Rouge guinea

    Spent a bit too much of these goons and they escaped the first morning. I've managed to locate them 4 times over the last two day and found their nest. Last night I found them roosting under some Christmas trees and used a make shift net to perpetuate failure. Today I'm armed with a real net and...
  17. ChiefSuperFly

    Backyard Barnyard Deer

    yesterday we were moving lumber in our barn and came across a fawn... in short it was covered and I mean covered in eggs and larva :/ We got it cleaned up and I put some liquid skin on its wounds (probably not approved for animals but I used it on our barn cat once and it saved its leg from...
  18. ChiefSuperFly

    Eating and drinking, lethargic and skinny.. I've been reading on here for weeks and no change in Gig

    i have a polish chicken, 3 actually and one, the only one I'm certain is a hen has been acting completely different for the last 3 weeks. Giget is 10 weeks old. First it was really hot out and I noticed she was just standing in the sun with her wings dropped. I got her cooled off and still she...
  19. ChiefSuperFly

    Finally signed up

    I've been coming here for some while for information, tips, insights about breeds and so forth. I have several chickens and German shepherds- fun times! Unfortunately I have a dilemma and decided to sign up and post. If anyone can direct me to where I need to post pertaining to a sick chicken...
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