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Empty Nest Syndrome these days... I was a stay at home mom until the kids got into school and then I landed a job as a teachers aide for 10 years at our Elementary School. They weren't thrilled about that but what a great way to know your kids friends and teachers. Later I worked as...

Thanks Sammi, I will try your recipe and will get some ointment today...keep you posted on how she is doing! If I get a companion or two for her will the rest accept them or will the clique continue on and should they be the same color????? When I got the two white Sultans the...

What a fantastic idea..... My girls are having boys in November and February...next time they are here I will show them all you are offering!!!

Okay tried to photograph her again and she still won't co-operate.......................can you see what I mean where her beak is hard and then it's just gone and pink????

She really is a pretty girl! (Her beak is just a mess.....) And if it truly is the others pecking at her ...here are the culprits..my other girls and the Roo!

Ugh I tried to post different pics and I am defininetly doing something wrong.........

Can someone tell me how to put images up so you can see her better? I went to photo bucket to make the pictures small enough to fit...but as you can see you had to help me just get them here...would like to make photo bigger so you can actually see what I'm talking about...... Really want...

Thanks Sammi....... I'll try anything....she is such a sweetie I hate to see her being so isolated from the others... It's heart breaking to think she is unhealthy...I thought they were all eating well.... I let my Girls and Roo Free range everyday and I treat them with fruits and...

Thanks Cetawin and Mrs. AK-Bird Brain for the photo edits... I am soooooooo CLUELESS!!!!!!!!!!

It was very difficult to photograph her but hope you can see well enough to see what I am talking about! I haven't seen actual blood...... the Roo Sultan is very Red in the areas I tried to show you....so I know her coloring is off for sure......

Having trouble with the photos!

I brought her in the house and my hubby tried to help me photograph her...hard to see what i am talking about.....

Brand new chicken owner .... I have 2 Road Island Red , 2 Sex Links and 2 Sultans...one turned out to be a Roo! My little Female Sultan seems to be shunned from the rest of the group lately.... They tolerate her from a distance but peck at her if she gets to close.....( they don't...

Thanks so much for your input! Guess I'll let you know when I get that first egg...keeping fingers crossed it will be soon!!! Thanks again!!!

Yeah! Nothing against Roo's just not really prepared to take that on...I'm a neebie so trying to keep things simple...... Just a question how are you judging the age..? Just by their size? I got them the end of May and they told me then they were approx. 4 to 6 weeks then.....so I have...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/12459_dscf8614.jpg[/img][/URL] I am trying to figure out age???? And I keep reading about the tail helping in determing the gender? I have the two white Sultans and recently the larger one started crowing so I know I have one of each of...

I have two Sultans and four RIR's I think somewhere between 12 and 14 weeks old.....nothing yet! Getting more anxious hearing about your early layers!!!!

Hi Arizona Chicken Lovers! I think my girls are getting pretty close to laying and I am not sure who is more anxious!!! Me or them! LOL I can't wait to get that first egg! If I am calculating right they are 12 to 14 weeks old....I bought them from a feed store and they said they were 4...

I keep hearing that the wattles and crowns will turn a bright red when they are ready to lay...approx. how old is that?

Dear Rebbetzin, Keep trying.....I finally made a deal with my husband(and I think he was sure I couldn't or wouldn't do it) because after years of trying to convince them how great it would be etc. he said and I quote: "If you build your own coop we can get chickens!" So that is how...