I have a GQF 1202 incubator and the back up wafer has died or gotten killed in transport. I can not get it to regulate at all by itself., I THINK I need to order the entire wafer and switch as the one that is in it is original and looks older than dirt. but I am not sure if I am ordering the...
after a long wait for some eggs I paid for I finally got the seller to ship my eggs. the shells are very porous, seller says eggs are fresh and should be fine,. but, in the middle of the bunch was an egg that was not cracked but it had egg white all over it. I assumed it was from the broken eggs...
when you are judging, is it acceptable to take a bird our for inspection and then hand it to some unknown 12 year old to hold and pet when it is not their bird?
anyone in Washington state have white homing pigeons? do they even come in white? I have a friend who is a photographer and is looking for white homing pigeons that she can take and use in her wedding shoots, and they will return home. she is not looking to breed or show them, just get them to...
I have noticed that a lot of large breed cockerels have sudden lameness issues, I have had 3 of them since I have had chickens suddenly go lame on one leg. Mine are Orpingtons mostly of english import lines. None of the 3 were related. 1 of them was not from english lines but was a very large...
my spam box is full of emails from a member of this forum, I am not sure why as I have never had any contact with this person. they are links to spam and some have attachments. I do not open them but would like to know how that persons email got hacked and sent me emails. the only place the name...
around 12 to 14 weeks old. I thought it was a cockerel but now I am not so sure. it bites my legs when I have food squawking at me. if its a pullet it has a pass...if its a cockerel its going to someones dinner party
I have a young pullet that shakes...all the time. a constant shiver. she runs around and eats and otherwise looks healthy and happy...what would make them shiver all the time? its been going on for about 2 weeks now
its not been cold, no frostbite. thought it was dirty but its not washing off. Nice cockerel with a nice straight 5 point comb...and its turning black. he is otherwise healthy cept for a hurt leg ...the big rooster whacked him now he is lame. so what would make a comb turn black?
my last chick pipped this morning, I was going to toss the unhatched eggs last night but gave them one more day. day 23 it pipped sometime during the night. waited all day watching it and it finally stopped moving a little while ago, it never made much of a pip hole. I figured it was going to...
I have some really pretty english blue orp girls. and some not so pretty black and splash orp girls. the two blue ones... one of them gets in the nest box and goes about her egg laying business, gets up and wanders off only to have the egg fall out of her butt somewhere in the driveway, the...
hatched 11 english orp chicks and they were living in my spare room in two big plastic tubs. the weather here has been unbelievable this month. snow every morning!! and then rain rain rain. was freezing at night. so I could not put them out, to cold. They are now 3 or 4 weeks old and trying to...
hard to get good pics of them, fast moving lil things!! These are about 8 weeks old. I think the buff mix is a boy the other two girls, but I know nothing!! probably to early to guess...lot of fluff going on there.
buff x splash orp
blue orp. none of her head shots turned out...blurry...
and I cant catch which one it is!!! I have one that seems to be laying wherever she happens to be standing at the time. I find eggs, under the tree, in the run. floor of the coop...everywhere except in the nest box. they are not nice looking eggs either, they have a whitish powdery look to the...
Ok I have hope that some will hatch but dang it I need to gripe a little...someone flipped off the light switch that the bator is plugged into...after repeated instructions to NOT TOUCH ANYTHING in the room where the bator is...someone still flipped it off! argh!!!!! 23 english orp eggs. temp...
my momma hen has 5 babies, they are around 5 weeks old. yesterday one of them was limping and sitting down a lot. wearing himself out trying to keep up. today he was even more tired and kind of shivery. sooo..I grabbed him and his brother and put them in a crate and brought them in the house...
I wondered if any of you that show might be able to answer a question for me I have a pretty blue hen and I would like to show her in about two weeks. Her tail feathers got messed up by the rooster though and are kind of scraggly looking. is it possible to wash her up and try to fix them? How...
I have read that pullets will feather wings and tails before cockerals will. is that a wives tail? if not does it only apply to certain breeds? I have 5 orpington chicks. 3 are blue black or splash, (I cant tell colors yet) 2 are buff x splash and odd colored. 3 have wing and tail feathers 1 has...