I didn't know if I could show a non standard colour in a general class though, I didn't know if I'd have to find an AOC class for them instead? I have emailed the organiser a few days ago but haven't heard anything so thought I'd double check on here :-)
Hello,
I have a lovely trio of this years chocolate orpington bantams which I am planning on breeding in 2013, and hence would like to show them. I am new to showing and am unsure of which classes I can enter them in as I believe they are not standardised yet? This is a link to the show I am...
Hi,
Over the past two months I have lost a few chickens. It is all a bit intermittent and although the symptoms seem similar it is sometimes up to 3 weeks before I lose another bird.
They have mostly all looked a little 'off' - squinty eyes, faces pale off slightly, look lethargic and hold...
Toes are curled, leg is now straightened and in a cast, the chick in a chick chair under a heat lamp. Going to put a shoe on him later and give him all the chances I can
OK so here are some pics I took this morning. As you can see, the little guy is resting on his hock, which looks slightly larger than the other one and the foot is slightly turned inwards. Also if you turn him on his back, he stretches and kicks out with the good, but the poorly leg doesn't do...
I had a Belgian Bantam chick hatch earlier this afternoon, the first of 10 fertile eggs in my new incubator (1 more has since hatched, 3 more have pipped) I looked in earlier and it appeared to be hobbling and I quickly and gently picked it up, as I thought there was a dried piece of membrane...