So, my Brinsea gave me troubles this time around and I have one surviving Silverudd (standard size) chick. The poor thing is freaking out. It needs friends. I looked on craiglist and can only find bantam chicks she says is about 4 weeks old.. Is it a good idea to provide these as friends...
So my breeder had a super smart Cream legbar roo that got in the Silverudd pen. Some of her chicks turned out to be Ice Cream Bars.
I am only familiar with the black variety of Silverudds. I have no clue on other color variations. What is the chances that this guy is purebred Silverudd? I...
I am on day 24 of hatching my eggs. I had a power outage so they are taking a little longer. Today I feel so bad. I candled the eggs just to get reassurance they were alive. All looked great except for one. It hadn't filled the egg and it had a cloudy substance that I thought was bacteria.. Dead...
So back when I first started and didn't know what I was doing; among the chicks had seemingly wider set hips than most. She still perched and could get around so I didn't worry about it much. Oddly it seems to be getting worse now that she is aging. At this point she can no longer perch. She can...
The resiliency of hatching eggs never ceases to amaze me. I have 4 eggs under a broody. Late last night I got a strange feeling to check my chickens. I did and found that a more dominant hen had found her way into the nest box. 3 of the eggs were no longer under the hen and the poor thing was...
The resiliency of hatching eggs never ceases to amaze me. I have 4 eggs under a broody. Late last night I got a strange feeling to check my chickens. I did and found that a more dominant hen had found her way into the nest box. 3 of the eggs were no longer under the hen and the poor thing was...
So these chicks are 4 weeks and. They are being raised by a broody. All seems well. They are active and seem healthy. The feathers are growing in oddly. The mother is a bantam and these are standard size chicks. 4 weeks old a swedish flower hen and 2 silverudds. She has 3 but only the 2...
She is a Bantam Millie defluer cochin cross. She's can't weight more than a lb.. She is 1 year old.
So I had quite an adventure with my birds. A little over a month back they had wetpox/fowl pox. We got through that and most of the flock seems fine. Well I noticed she was backing up and shaking...
One of my girls just hatched a cream legbar egg. Honestly it is amazing it did hatch. I started out with 11 eggs that took two weeks just to get here! Every one of them had detached air cells. 2 eggs made it to hatch but one died. He hatched with blood in its eye and its tounge still mostly...
I set eggs under 2 broodies on the 15th. They took a week to get to me and had detached air cells. Out of 11 eggs only 4 made it through the 7 day candling. 3 of those reattached air cells. Yesterday, today, and though the weekend we are experiencing 105° weather. I had to take my broodies out...
We are about to lose our interent privacy. Please, read up on The Earn It Act. I would rather be dead than loose our privacy and freedom. It feels like everything possible is being done to make 1984 a full reality. I personally refuse to stand by and watch it happen...
I hatched an Isbar/Swedish hen and an Isbar/Maran in February. Well I finally got eggs. I didn't get the olive egger I was hoping for but I am not disappointed.
I have myself a beautiful roo. He is an Isbar from Greenfire Farms. Now at this point I am no breeder but I am amazed at the gorgeous babies I am getting. They are all mixed breed but amazing none the less. The first photo is daddy. Then his pretty babies.
So I ordered some BMC and cream legbar hatching eggs from Ebay. My closest order was given to usps on the 6th. My other order was coming twice the distance and was given to them on the 9th yet for some reason the estimated delivery date for both was yesterday the 13th. Well I didn't get anything...
So I am dealing with fowl pox. My poor rooster has had it for a month now. I already lost one hen. Unbeknownst at the time it had become wet pox. My roo should have been better by now and he was noticably loosing weight. So I checked his throat and sure enough lesions. One was a bump so big it...
Do you think this is fowl pox? If so what would you recommend to help?? It's not as noticeable in the pics but there are black bumps on my rooster. In the second pic a white thing developed on his favorite hen. Her eye has only ever opened 1/2 way so that is normal for her.
Also, I have chicks...
I have one banty hen who has a genetic deformity and walks like a duck. I intended to never breed her. Well I accidentally hatched one of her eggs. She had the same problem. However, I cast her up and she was walking alright. She is 7 weeks old now. Well today I am doing my dishes and I hear one...
So I have seven hens. My rooster is a very effective. He has produced my 100% percent hatch rate.. There have been no issues except one. My frizzle keeps loosing her feathers from mating! She is even losing them on her wings. None of my other banties have issue with my Isbar roo. I have read a...