I've spent the whole week at school and its been dark when i left and dark when i got back, so finally today iv had a chance to see the chickens, so i decided to take pictures
Starting with the chickens i keep round the front of the house
C the lavender aracauna cockerel
One of the 3 girls...
Sadly yesterday after my mum had picked me up from the station she decided to fill the grain bins up. carries the 20 kilo bag over, sadly it seems little Sheep decided to crawl under it the second before she put it down, he was still warm when my mum got me Sheep was a porcelin Sablepoot and he...
Hi, we have a serious problem in that a really bad eye infection is spreading throughout all are chickens, The first to get sick was a sablepoot girl who's face had swollen so badly she couldn' open wither bad, owever we removed massive amounts of pus from the eye, gve her eyedrops and...
Hi,
so i have have a broody brahma names Puffin, and when i went on holiday for a few days my sister who was meant to collect eggs in for me was too scared to get the ones Puffin had stolen out from under her.When i candled them only 1 had a chick and i couldn't just throw it away so i left it...
I know its not a chicken but i have this little partride chick that hatched 1-2 days ago, its knee joint has swollen and become red so badly that the chick cannot walk and i don't know whether it has eaten or drank yet, i don't think it will live much loner if it isn't helped.
Where the swelling...
I have these 2 chicks who are still in the shells, one has pipped a head hole and is now waiting there but it appears to have pipped as far as it can reach, when i try to pull back a bit of the membrane there is some blood.The other one has done the same except its twisted so that its stuck...
So my dad calls up to me "im afraid one of your chickens has died"
"well, which one?"
"one of the grey ones" so i think its an auracauna and go downstairs, he said it was just laying there in the middle of the drive so he moved it to the side, i take one look and realize it wasn't an araucana...
Today one of my eggs(which i thought had twins in) which had chicks in had pipped and i was stupid and had read twins couldn't get out by themselves so tried to help them, and they died....
There yolk (they shared the same one) wasn't fully absorbed and there was some blood, they lived for a...
I need medical advice on a hen quite quickly. Jam is roughly 2 and a half year old ex battery hen, about a week ago(probably less) a noticed she was waddling on a closer inspection she had an incredibley swollen abdomen and vent, then next day my dad lloked at it and got a bit of brown liquid...
I have a silver spangled Appenzeller roo and a silver spangled Appenzeller hen, my friend has a golden spangled Appenzeller roo and a golden spangled Appenzeller hen. What would happen if i bred my roo to her hen, or her roo to my hen what would we get?
thanks
A few days ago a friend of mine's father rung me and asked if i had an incubator spare, because there had been an accident down at thier farm and someone had accidentally killed a partridge with a strimmer that was sitting on 14 eggs. As there incubator was full i said i would take them, when i...
Just thought id show some pictures of my poots!! if there is any other Sablepoot lovers out there then feel free to post your pictures too
Firstly My Adult porcaline cockerel Pootle (yes i know very commen name but he came with it )
Then there is my two, year old millefluer hens Stumble and...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone on here had any Old English Pheasant Fowl or knew anything about them, i have seen some eggs listed for sale on ebay and really like them and the cockerels comb is gorgous, but i can't find and pictures of the females and get the feeling that they are quite plain...
I was wondering if anyone could help with the gender of my chicks, they are roughly 10 weeks old.
Firstly id my 2 black brahma's i suspect both cockerels
Then theres my blue braham, although its comb is red there is nothing there.
Im allready certain that this vorwerk is a boy but just...
I need some help with 1 of my 3 and a half week old araucanas, a few days ago i noticed that its neck has gone funny, its constandtly turned so that one side of its face is always looking up at you, and because of this it keeps running around in circles i have reserched it as much as i can but...