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I just got this new hen - a white pair actually. but the hen I was told has cataracts. here are some picts. is there any way we can help her or does she just have to live like this? any ideas? I didn't know cataracts would make her eyes swell like that. other wise she seems fine - health wise...

ok, these were born 7/1/15. so they are 7 weeks old now. Father is black shoulder. I only have one male. Mother could be any of the following but I have thoughts on this: ib pied, ib loud pied, bs and purple bs. Clearly I think the mother of the bs chicks is one of the bs hens, the ib chick I...

Put eggs under a chicken... look what we found this am!!!! - I wonder if she's worried about why her babies look so funny!!! she's still sitting on one more good egg I think, hoping anyways. two are looking completely bs, one looks half ib. yay!!!!!

i wish I had a pict. i'll try and add one tonight. ok, hes acting normal except: he's not perching, and he has his wings down like the girls do when they're going to lay. I started antibiotics a week ago but he has not changed, so i'm thinking mites or worms.... going to look under his wings...

my peas ended laying 7/2/14. now 3 weeks later they've started laying again.... idk if this is fall laying? our boy shed his tail and I think is starting to grow a new one... not sure tho, never shed his tail support feathers. They're about 2years and 3-4 months old now. Thanks. fyi - they...

i put chicken eggs in the incubator, these stop being turned tomorrow and should hatch on the 5th, in the mean time on the 28th - 30th i added 4 pea eggs to the incubator, so these have only been in there2-4 days. has anyone hatched eggs and left eggs incubating and had that work? i thought i...

ok, 2 year old bs male, been finding eye / tail feathers for over a week. Still getting eggs, actually getting more now... and he seems to be mating with the girls a lot more not too. girls are all 2 years old also. Today is the first time ever we got two eggs in one day... I've been selling...

ok, 2 year old bs male, been finding eye / tail feathers for over a week. Still getting eggs, actually getting more now... and he seems to be mating with the girls a lot more not too. girls are all 2 years old also. Today is the first time ever we got two eggs in one day... I've been selling...

110 - 120 degrees for anywhere from 4 - 8 hours, humidity dropped to 20%. got it back up to 50% but its broke and is keeping the temp up there, going to get a new one now :( I think I cooked em :( very very frustrated and very very sad :(

she's two she's laying on the floor with her feet stretched out behind her, she is alert, no signs of mites or anything like that. She will not get up, laying near lamp idk where to start. could she be egg bound? worms? infections? how can I tell?

We had a rooster before - hand raised, hand fed, handled and super friendly. one day it turned, we dealt with him for a while till he attacked our daughter - the one that hand raised him. blood was squirting from her legs, it was horrible. he died from lead poisoning that night. and we vowed to...

ok this was two weeks ago, The chicks are all 5 months old. When i bent over to tape the new bs pair houdini jumped on my back. you can see the camera jump a little. then my daughter tapes for a minute while he climbs on top of my head. Houdini always wanted to be a parrot i think :) Anyone...

his/her color looks a little like a Spaulding/Java in person and his crest is different. Here's some picts you can see his crest in. what do you think? the guy we got these from had no idea what they were, so its been a guessing game all along. now that they're older different traits are...

ok, Rose - bs hen, but she's got to be mixed with somthing else she looks so much different from the bs hen we just got - here's picts: Above is Cleopatra - our new bs hen. Below is Rose. i see the similarities, white head, cream color for the majority of the body. etc. but i see differences...

above is Cleopatra, below is Mark Anthony :) hard to get picts, they're still shy of us. I thought they're 5 months. but MA has alot less color than our other 5 month olds.

I can't do anything on the site anymore :( I just tried again to PM and its still not working. Can someone forward this please. Hi, I'm having problems with the site :( I can't upload pictures - the buttons are not there, even if i go to full page reply. I can't edit posts. I can't private...

Our chickens free range and we have had no problems (had chickens two years now). But I think the peafowl will range further. we have 16 acres but the barn is maybe 200-250 feet from the road. is that far enough? People drive 50mph on our road :( Plus when we have let them out for the day they...

ok i tried searching the title and nothing answered my question. So, We got two new peachicks. a pair of 4-5 month black shoulders. (i will take pictures - foggy yucky day here) we have three peachicks already about the same age. They are housed in the same house, but separated by a chicken...