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It bears saying that I'm not generally panicky, but I need some advice. Pepper, my 2-year-old bantam D'Uccle hen, decided to go broody on two eggs. They both were fertilized and developed normally, as far as I could tell (I am a compulsive candler...). Now, on day 22 (because day 21 would have...

My Belgian bantam rooster Noodle has some kind of unspecified illness. A week ago, he was: *lethargic *not eating *not drinking So I brought him inside, used the eyedropper to give him tetracycline- and electrolyte-laced water. I finally had to put him back outside with the girls because he...

This is my gorgeous 20-week-old Japanese bantam, Sushi. I know her legs are too long, and I don't plan to either breed or show her. Once she's a little bigger, she'll go out to live with my D'Uccles and D'Anvers. Her father was a blue frizzle Japanese and her mother was a BBR Japanese. I know...

Do you have any guesses as to the breed or name of the color? Supposedly she and 24 others were imported from Germany - the others all succumbed to hawks and the guy who owned Salt was glad to get rid of her. He claimed she drew the hawks into his yard. She has a little beard and short feathers...

I recently purchased this little girl (guy?) from a local who had a laundry basket full of 100 sexed chicks. I chose this one because I keep an assortment of bantams (I live in town and can keep more chickens if I keep bantams ). The difficulty is that this chicken, whom I have named Custard...

She's about 6 weeks old at this point. She talks nonstop, is completely bonded to people (especially me), and has already put the fear of God into my dogs. Her legs are pink and feathered. That and the amazing varied barred copper feathers make me wonder what her parents were. I bought her to...

I bought this little girl 10 days ago from one of our less-than-standard local gentlemen. He had over 100 birds wandering around loose and unfenced on his property. He had about 40 babies in a laundry basket with no food or water. I had space for two, bought them and brought them home. This one...

I recently purchased a blue pearl English bantam pullet from a guy who thought it was funny that the chickens he ordered from Germany had all but one been killed by red-tailed hawks. He wanted rid of her because he thought her color made her a target. I bought her because his operation was just...

I bought a gorgeous 5-week-old Quail D'Anvers pullet baby from an airheaded woman who had ordered a selection of rare chicks from McMurray hatchery (she thought... though she couldn't remember, of course). I was only looking for one pullet, though I was dying for the white Polish boy she had. We...