I show chickens and these are show birds that are sick. They are coughing and sneezing. I can hear their breathing and it's raspy. They have fluid coming out of their noses and it crusts up into broogers. What comes out of their nose and sometimes cough it up it's a smelly smelly liquid. I have...
Hey Guys! I have a Delaware x Red Star cross cockerel that in desperate need of a home for in San Antonio Texas! His name is Houdini because as a chick he escaped the brooder and was walking around the yard but we still don't know how! Please help, I have pictures available too.
I have a brand new HovaBator Genesis Forced air and Automatic egg turner with papers for sale. The price is not including tax. I did put eggs in it for15 days, but all failed due to bad shipping:he I did disinfect it after removing the eggs but I recommend you do too once you get it.
If you are...
This is my sweet little boy that I sadly can't keep. He is the sweetest little guy I've ever raised but I am unable to keep him due to him being a rooster. If you can take him please do I will be at the Warrington Antique Show this Friday if you are closer to that than San Antonio. Please give...
We have a 40 acre ranch about 1 hour away from our home which we go to every Saturday-Monday, about 21 acres of if are fenced off into our field where we keep our 2 female cattle. We have a lot of overgrown brush and weeds in the pasture and it's an eye sore from the road. So we thought of...
Hello where I live my backyard is 1 acre and I think I want goats!!! We already have chickens and dogs which we love dearly. I think mini Nubians, mini Lamancha, or Nigerian dwarf goats would work. I would like to get either 1 doeling and one doe or a doe and a whether as I want one or two...
Hello!!! I am an amateur artist and I sell pastel or pencil drawings and paintings usually of chickens, horses, or dogs(I'm best at short snouts) for $10-80 depending on the canvas size and difficulty. Contact me with pictures and to know if I can do a portrait of your beautiful pet!!! I hope we...
I have one egg under my broody and it seemed to have pipped after post we all thought it was a pip and I should Perelman a little more shell back I did and I saw a chick that was positioned but it hadn't gone through the air cell did I kill it. I wrapped it in a wet paper towel and put it back...
Hello fellow BYC members!!! I've always had chickens but have never hatched them, instead buying them as chicks from feed stores and hatcheries. As a child I got my first chickens when I was given two "fertile" eggs from a family friend. We set up a joke as and incubator! It was a bucket with a...
Hello fellow chickeners, I have an upcoming hatch planned in June that consists of 4 serama, 4 frizzle serama, 4 bantam cochin, 10 large fowl silver laced Wyandotte, and 2+ large fowl lavender orprington eggs. Will I be able to do this? I only have one good brooder and need to keep them...
Hello fellow BYC members!!! I will be hatching some Cochins, Seramas, a few silkie/possible showgirls, and a Japanese mix in early July. Also in early August I will hatch some silver laced Wyandottes, of these I might only be able to keep one. I am located in San Antonio, Texas and I'm willing...
Hi fellow byc members I recently bought an incubator and I'm thinking about hatching some ducks. I have never owned ducks but have always wanted to. I would hatch call ducks or Cayuga ducks. Can either of these go in with my bantam chickens? Do ducks need constant access to water to swim in? I'm...
I am so excited I ordered my first incubator!!! I ordered a genesis 1588 with chicken and quail turning eggs from curlers supply!!!! It was around 175.00 without shipping for everything which was a much better deal than everywhere else. It is going to ship out tomorrow and I can't wait to get...
we will be hatching about a dozen bantam chicks that include Showgirls, Silkies, Frizzle and regular cochins, and Golden laced polish this summer. we live in San Antonio, Texas where it gets VERY hot in the summer usually 95-100.5 during the day. We will be building a good brooder out of wood...
Please help me I purchased two Crele old english game bantam hens that I named Teeny and Tiny at a poultry show. they are about 4 inches tall! they are so sweet and adorable. when we brought them home we tried to introduce them to our 3 other hens in the coop (we have others in another coop) our...
We had an old treehouse about 19 years old that's legs were failing soo like any (not) normal person we decided to cut it down and use the house part as a chicken coop!!! It took about 2 months to motivate ourselves, get it down, and move it to where it was going to go!!
We then built a fence...