I would like up to four eggs from the following breeds: asils, cubalayas, Thai games, O shamos, Ko shamos, Phoenixes, Malays. Let me know what you have. I have serama hatching eggs or SQ Seramas to trade if you're interested.
A while ago I set six serama eggs out of my SQ trio for a standard 19 day cycle. All seemed normal until day 8(today)(I don't candle). Then I came home, and discovered two chicks stumbling around the incubator. Either I hatched super chickens, or one of the hens was hoarding them. I turned off...
I purchased a Mille Fleur chick along with several others from My Pet Chicken hatchery. The little pullet hatched on the 22nd of March, and is already starting to feather out. But she has only brown-red and black in her feathers. No white mottling. If she were a serama, I'd know better, but...
I like the ouessant breed, and I would love to own some. However, I haven't been able to locate any breeders in the US. So if you know of any, or breed them yourself, let me know. Any information about the breed would also be very valuable. Thank you for your time. :)
I have a trio of purebred show quality Seramas I want to breed. One hen got sick in the fall, and I treated her, and after she recovered(about the beginning of November) she and the other hen went crazy laying an egg a day thru December. But around the end of November I had to bring them in as...
Here's the deal. I'd love to hatch and hand-raise a cockatoo. I have experience hand feeding. But I'm leery of getting my female cockatoo, Sara, a mate, for many reasons. Is it possible to purchase hatching eggs? Or are all those ads scams? I'd love to know.
Okay. I breed show quality Seramas. As you may or may not know, really huge combs in serama roosters are something both common and not desirable. Feeding excess mealworms will give a rooster a huge comb if fed while they're growing. But I'm curious. This may sound stupid, but say you had a hen...
I have a Cochin X American game banty mix. She's really high energy, and isn't happy confined. She used to have run of the yard, but our neighbors thought the chickens made the lawn look ugly, so they complained, and we brought the chickens into the house. It was either that, or sell them all...
I love Valencian Figurita pigeons. But I am having a very hard time finding a breeder in Washington state. I am into show Seramas, so I have contacts, but no one I know is into Valencian figuritas, or even fancy pigeons in general. So I'd like to know if there's anyone breeding Valencian...
I've noticed that my really small chickens or the ones who fell behind for some reason, tend to be really aggressive towards their peers. For example, my beloved late Mira was born late, and deformed, and thus wasn't able to walk or eat for the first three days of her life, and ended up being...
My poor Silkie got cold, so I made her a fleece vest. I spent three hours sewing it. I attached buttons, sewed on jingle bells, and glued on googly eyes, plus lace. Here's the finished product! :)
Anyway, today I brought home my long-awaited seven-week old blue Silkie pullet. I settled her into her cage, but she kept on peeping unhappily, so I brought her out to sit on the couch while I wrote on my computer. My two serama roosters, Duke, and Squeaker, plus their lookalike mates Duchess...
This morning I hung up the parrot's rope swing, and left to get the parrot to put in it... And this is what I found when I came back. Silly Squeaker. I guess his nickname "UFO Bird" has more to it than a weird leg band number and a whispy, squeaky voice. Somebody's due for a wing clip.....
I'm buying a Silkie on Friday. I know the basics, but some info on breed specific care would be nice. I know to keep the Silkie out of the rain, trim her crest if it gets too big, and make sure none of the more aggressive chickens bully her. Is there any health problems I should watch out for...
Here in our neck of the woods, we've had a early cold snap, so the Seramas haven't been pleased, even with the thermostat turned up, so I brought out the spare heat lamp(the other one is hanging in their nighttime pen), and hung it in the living room. May and Squeaker have been quite pleased...
Tonight I saw the buff Orpington hen, Hazel, and her sister, Flash, the runty silver Phoenix perched on the porch railing waiting for the coop to be opened, so I decided to pull Flash off, take her inside and weigh her, as I hadn't weighed her in a while. So she was kind of freaked out, as she...
This contest is for any purebred banty. Here are the rules and categories:
- Rules:
Must be your bird.
The bird must be a banty. It cannot be a runty standard.
No negative comments about someone else's bird.
Have fun!
The categories are:
Cutest baby
Cutest grown bird
Most beautiful colors...