This spring my 5 year old hen started laying some nice eggs Again. She laid about 4, 2 To 3 days apart. Then she laid one with a sand paper finish, then one that was misshapen and one side had shell missing to the membrane. She hasn’t laid an egg for over a week and we noticed droopy wings and...
I just got 6 peachicks (4 days old) on the weekend. Its so hot in Texas right now, need for a heat lamp. I went to the auction for turkey chicks and come home with peachicks. I was told I have 3 greens. 2 blue shoulders and 1 white. I'm very interested in sexing. What should we look for.
About 6 months ago I had a case of fowlpox go through my chickens. Wet pox killed 2 birds. I vaccinated the remaining 30 birds and didn't lose anymore.
This spring I hatched 5 super healthy Magpie/Ancona mix. Blue and black. They are going on 4 weeks old and I am wondering if it would be smart...
I'll give him another week. See how he's doing next weekend. He needs to be eating and getting fat. He's constantly running away from his own foot. Running in circles and biting at the toe. IDK?
Tip of the toe to the middle knuckle seems pretty hard, harder than the rest. Not black, but he has pretty dark feet to begin with. It is slightly swollen.
I have a Bourbon Red jake that did something to his middle toe. I don't know what happened but I took a look at it 2 weeks ago and it didn't look that bad. He was missing some scales in a band all around the toe. It looked like it could have been injured and healed fine. It's just driving him...
Last night before bed 6 had pipped. this morning I have 5 babies, 1 zipping and 2 more pipped. The one that pipped at the wrong end didn't make it. I did an eggtopsy and found a nicely developed chick, but it had 2 or 3 days left of yolk. He started to early. Poor little guy. 14 more turkey eggs...
I raised Cornish Cross myself. I also free range all of them with free choice finisher feed. They do waddle around and forage quite a bit espeacially when raised with your egg laying flock, but most of the time they like to lay around the food dish and eat and eat and eat and poop and eat and...
I consider myself very good at incubation. Using a Farm Innovator incubator I have 100% hatchs most of the time. This is a mistake I have never made. While preparing my incubator for lockdown I set my eggs in a still air to keep them warm while I set my hot damp sponges in and set some paper...
My daughter bought a pair of seramas from the auction about a year ago. We ended up with 6. 2 cocks and 4 hens. The a racoon found its way into the henhouse and killed everyone of them. What a sad day. We both loved those birds. We fortified the coop and run. Its like Fort Knox now. We are...
I've been having very good luck with it this year. I got the feel for it now and I can keep a temp. Holding tight between 99.5 and 100. Been through 4 more hatches with it and right now I have turkeys hatching next weekend. Pretty decent bator. It would be a great one if the thermostat work.
Everybody is hatching now. I'm a little jealous. I have turkeys so, one more week. I candled Wednesday and had 4 clears in the 16 I set. So hopefully next weekend I'll have pictures of a dozen little poults. I got my brooder ready...Come On Babies!
I set 16 Bourbon Red Turkey eggs from my flock on the 22nd. I will be candling on Wednesday or Thursday and cull the clears. I'm searching for Serama hatching eggs right now. I do have a request to a BYC member for 18, but I'm 8th on the waiting list. The Turkeys will be fun for now. Ill let...
I raised 10 Bourbon Reds. Five each from different lineage. I sold 3 unrelated pairs that left me with Two related Toms and Two related Hens unrelated to the Toms. I'm going to keep a Trio for future breeding and one Tom will be a holiday meal. My question is about finishing out the one bird for...
I would definitely keep the hen. I bet she'll climb up the pecking order after awhile and be a nice addition. I wish you lived in Central Texas. I have a very nice Buff Orpington Australorp cross Cockerel that needs a good home. He looks like a pure Buff Orp. He's very big for 14 weeks and he's...