Ifyou check out my profile, you will see on my tags that I plan to become an full time orpington breeder. Well I am on the track to doing this and have gotten a good base of orpington birds!
This is going to be my Orpington thread where I say updates on my flock, how it is going, fertile egg...
Legit 5 minutes ago I went out to hunt for duck eggs. I do it every day - they are good at hiding them as they are half feral. I went down to the pond because they like laying on the bank - but then I saw two eggs, centimetres (just over an inch for Americans) apart. They may have rolled down...
I hatched 4 ducklings and 2 chicks at the same time - I scheduled them for the same day on purpose. They have been happy, it's been 3 weeks and no deaths - but I put the ducklings in a tub of water and the white chick tried to swim with them and got soaked, be he recovered. If I seperate the...
I have been wondering this for ages. What do you guys think?
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I just bought a JN48 incubator. It is very big!
Link: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/business-farming-industry/farming-forestry/poultry-health-management/incubators-brooders/listing/5647107868
It has held the temperature, 37.8 celcius (100 farenheit) very reliably except for when...
For me it is the M16
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0C6Q1M963?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
I have one of these and they are awesome, the only things are it doesn't have a hygrometre and the water bottle thing doesn't work. But the turning works, the temperature is stable and it has been going for...
I have been having trouble with my laptop, with my keypad - and I am being forced to use a mosue by my computer. It is finally working again! and I was wondering, what does the BYC members think abouts mouses and keypads? Which is better?
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While our family was on holiday, a chicken went broody, and three weekslater she hatched three chicks - a lovely white female, and dappled brown male and a cross-beaked black female. They are now 12 weeks old.
Now the lovely white and the cross-beaked black are both thriving happily - the...
I have a lovely black chicken who is a reliable layer, bit cheeky she doesn't like staying in. I caught her today and this is her head (both sides):
What is wrong with her? Not frostbite it is summer here. Anybody know?
Hi everyone, I put 10 duck eggs in my incubator. Out of them 3 were infertile, one had a crack so it died. There were 6 left, one duckie has hatched but there are three more hatching as well as 2 chickens scheduled for the same day.
One of the duck eggs is pipping on the wrong side.Photo...
So I had two chicks: Lazarus and this one, Mascot. Lazarus died of pasty butt last night. They both lived with my 5 week old Orpingtons, all very happy and getting along.
Every day I take out the little Orpingtons outside and leave Lazarus and Mascot in there. But since Lazarus died last night...
Hey folks some of you may know of my chick Lazarus who was dead but then wasn't. He is now very weak and has a poblem with his bottom.
Him (slightly blurred sorrymoved the phone too soon):
His rear:
It was worse than this I pulled some off before I realised I should take a photo. Is this...
I have a Splash Orpington rooster called Bernie some people on here have seen his pic, here it is anyway, a week ago.
As you can see he is big, healthy and in his prime, 2 1/2 years old. My NDE chick, Lazarus, is his son/daughter. Best roo I have ever had, literally twice the size of my head...
OK I had an idea for a Forrest Frank thread and told @HolyHenHouse she should and she made one. Now I am doing a Josiah Queen one.
Be honest - what do you think of him? I won't be offended if you pick TRASHIEST SINGER EVER! - probably, that is
Post your best GIFs on here!
The rules are simple:
1️⃣ Find a GIF. (has to be a good one)
2️⃣ Post it.
3️⃣ Try not to lose to Kermit. (You will.) (obviously)
GIF is pronounced Jee-Eye-Eff
Had a hen on a clutch of eggs. She was only on them half the day every day for a week and I thought they were doomed but I left them just in case. Then this morning I went out...and lo and behold there are two popping eggs and a chick on the ground! I thought the chick was dead because it...
Hi! I've been wondering...a lot of people I've been talking to love Josiah Queen but I haven't met anyone who likes CCR except my dad and my brother - yet they have billions of streams on Spotify. Anybody out there who loves Creedence Clearwater Revival? It's a bit outdated now (they broke up a...