This is a first for me. I found an egg with two shells. The outer is brown and inner egg light blue. I don’t know if it was laid this way or if the brown egg broke and the blue egg slipped inside the broken piece and sealed itself perfectly inside.
So I just seen my Jubilee Orpington eating a blue tailed skink. Before I could even do anything about it, she gulped it down. Not sure if they’re poisonous, should I be concerned?
I live in NE Georgia and something took off with my buff silky. I'm not sure what it was. I have a fenced in yard, the fence is wood and about 5' tall. My yard backs up to the woods. Within my fence I have a coop and run. I believe it happened at sunrise when my birds wondered out of their coop...
I think my eggs may be fried due to the temperature going to high. I'm new to candling and not sure what I'm supposed see for day 14. I just candled all 38 bantam cochin eggs and 13 were clear. So, I know those were no good and threw them out. The others were just a black mass and air cell. I...
I'm about to buy a blue copper marans pullet tomorrow, said to be approximately 1 and half months old. Seller says their 100% sure it's a pullet. I asked for pics and below is what I got. The comb seems huge to me. Can anyone guess the gender from these pics?
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I couldn't help myself and splurged on some Christmas hatched chicks from a local breeder. (Merry Christmas to me!) I bought 8 in total, 5 bantam cochins and 3 show quality silkies. It's the most I ever spent on chicks and I'm freaking out a bit because 7 out of the 8 are ALL acting...
I'm sitting here in tears. This weekend I pick up two young olive eggers and I brought them home to my flock. The next morning I noticed food sticking to their beaks and noticed they had clear runny noses with a smell. I immediately moved them away from my birds and sprayed peroxide everywhere I...
I was just curious to know which of the two breeds (Araucana or ameraucana) lay a blue-er egg? I just bought some LF lavander ameraucana eggs and much to my surprise, the eggs were green, not blue. Is there a chance that the pullets from this hatch will lay blue eggs?
Has anyone here crossed a Lacy roundhead roo with EE hens? If so, can you post pics of the offsprings? Also, I'm curios to know what color eggs would the new hens lay?? I just gave my broody silkie 6 eggs to sit on, which came from my neighbor. All the eggs are different shades of green from EE...
I'm a fairly new chicken owner and I'm experiencing my first broody. I have no rooster, but just received 6 eggs from my neighbor who does. I want to give my girl the eggs first thing in the morning, but it looks like these eggs may have been washed. Can washed eggs hatch? If not, I don't want...
A hawk swooped down at my girls this morning about a minute after letting them out of their coop. They all ran under my deck, and all 9 of them were accounted for. Close call I thought. I just went to check on them again and noticed one of my Brahmas just sitting there. She went to stand up and...
Below are my first hatched first chickens to ever own. Born on May 11th, from regular brown eggs. I got the eggs from my neighbor who says is hens are RIR and that he thinks his Roo is a traditional game cock. While searching photos of Welsummers I noticed that my girls kind of look like them...