Journal
Blue Eggers! Green Eggers!
Boy! do I love these little birds!
My Collection of Notes, Observations, Questions and Opinions
Tusona Feathers
Several of my hatchery birds have these wisps of feathers that flare back from the sides of the neck to the nape. I noticed that some of the...
Compiling Info and Sources -- A starting point
An online Vet manual:
http://www.avianmedicine.net/ampa/
Help: http://www.afn.org/~poultry/newsletr/1997/paug97.pdf
Learning about Tylan 200
Both conversations and instructions regarding this drug...
Breeders or Hatcheries
Ameraucanas
-Standard and Non Standard-
Folks here on BYC
AMERAUCANAS
-Standard and Non Standard-
halo
(Hinkjc EE X Peachick) X Ramey
Very Nice Birds! Would buy from again.
Atlchick
Her Home Page
She has blue/green/olive/pink eggers...
What Chris09 said plus consider cramped space as a contributor to the problem.
For protein supplement, I feed my flocks hamburg -- the cheapest -- and when I can afford it, I sometimes endulge in sardines packed in water -- no salt added. These oily fish are packed with nutrition that is good...
These Boys are from halo's line (Hinkjc EE X Peachick roo) X Ramey roo.
All have been hand raised. Two are very nice Blue Wheatens with nice carriage. The others are more like EE in body build. All but one have correct leg coloring. One has a clean face with no beard/muffs.
These boys...
Set 15 EE eggs this morning. First time doing this. Eggs arrived in the mail yesterday. I am have a little trouble with the temp. It might be a tad high. Will give it a day for temp. to stabilize.
Hey Suechick, you mentioned using both a broody and a homemade incubator. I will be very interested in your comparison of the two approaches. Have you used your homemade 'bator' before? Did you make it using plans / instructions from BYC members?
Easter Egger Eggs due to arrive from Halo (BYC member) Monday! If all goes as expected, I will be setting on Tuesday! This is my first time buying and setting eggs. I purchased the Brinsea ECO 20 that is (or was) on sale.
The neighbor might add a few eggs from his Easter Eggers to fill up...
My favorite is the picture of the Orpingtons with the caption that says "Some from Jody."
Is that a cockeral in the front? He is very handsome to me. Very pleasing to my eyes.
Tried to find more on blood feathers.
Here is another discussion: Clipped wings bleeding??
That discussion had a couple of links one of which ultimately lead me to this page: Blood Feathers
I ran across a few discussions about "blood feathers" awhile back. I wonder if the feathers you are looking at are blood feathers.
Here is one conversation that seems similar to your situation: What to do w/bleeding turkey feathers??
I googled "blood feathers chickens" and got this...