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If the no tail is dominant then I am going to say she is not originally mine and has just found her way here. I have several that lay blue eggs and I have all tails. Is the short tail dominant as well? I do think that she has somewhat of a tail bump, but it is noticeably different than all of...

Here is another of her on our garden fence. She has no tufts, muffs, or beard. In fact she also appears to have no comb.

Question for the experts. I had a very sweet complaint letter about one of my girls "pooing" on my neighbors back porch and could I please fix the hole in my fence? I went out to be sure but no hole, so I waited till bedtime and went out with my big shears and trimmed wings ( it was about time...

This spring I got my new "girls" from our local farm store. Usually I order them or buy eggs online, or adopt from nearby farms. This year I thought the price was right so I got 4 Americana pullets, 4 buff sex link pullets, and 4 turkeys. The reason for the post is one of my "Americana...

sorry, this was supposed to be a reply in the chicken names, not a whole new thread! what a bird brain

I worry a lot about sam... samen... getting sick so I have found that for me a good compromise is to kiss at them when I hold them. This in no way means that they get any less lovin! Besides, my girls are not very cuddly. They seem to love me best when I have treats ?

I was given a beautiful black copper maran roo last summer. He came with the name Black Berry. He was about a year old and had to that point been raised with one other rooster. I brought him home to my 20+ girls and he immediately morphed into Berry White. What a charmer. As for the rest...

I got a roo from a student this spring. He was about a year old and had been raised with another roo. When he came to us his name was Blackberry. After meeting my 26 girls we have renamed him Berry White! When I talk to the girls I don't tend to make chicken noises, instead I talk to them...

I got sick of picking up the pecked at chewed up bits in my yard after I moved the tractor, so I went back to putting my compost in the bin. Now my chickens make right for the bins when I let them out. It is sort of like a buffet! (sometimes they are just like children... if you hand it to...

We just finished our chicken nipple waterers. They are hooked to a hose and controlled with a float switch. I love them... the girls don't. I have taken each girl and put her beak up to the nipple, nothing. The next day I went out with a cup of cream cheese and kept smearing cream cheese on...

Last year as we moved the chicken tractors around the yard you could tell where my girls had been because within a week there was a beautiful new patch of milo. My girls would spill or miss so much of their scratch, and I wash the poo into the ground when we move the tractor, that it was...

Your thread made me think of something. Quick question, of all of my girls, my bantam is the only one who has ever gone broody, and she is now on her third round of brooding since Easter. Is this normal behavior for bantys, do they tend to be more broody than others? Your liittle mommy is so...

The welsummers that I got this spring all had that dark triangle on their head, but the brown leghorns that I got last spring had the dark triangle on their head and the same markings on their back. I got mixed ages last year as well. The leghorns were older and bigger (we thought they might...

What colors are dominant? I have what I believe to be a Welsummer mut roo (Berry White) and 28 hens of all descriptions. I was wondering if the brown was usually the dominate "gene" or if the blues or whites were generally dominant?

A very tiny bit of regular bleach should keep your system clean and not hurt your chickens at all. I would not begin to know how much to use but on the order of a teaspoon or less for five gallons? I have bought the stuff to make my own automatic waterer, and I was looking around today to see if...

Well, I have been using BYC for the last 6 months as I have built my tractors and started my flocks. I guess it is about time that I become a member! I am in South Western Indiana and I have not even been near live chickens since I was about 5 (grama's flock.) My husband worked on a chicken...