Exactly where are you located? I live in Cut N Shoot and my Husband and I have caught many free roaming birds in the past. I am an Agriculture teacher always looking for new animals that I can share with my students and eggs we can hatch. I would love to come and get them on Saturday if you...
I purchased a bunch of chicks at Easter time (a few earlier) and am still trying to figure out what some are and if they will lay or crow. Some help would be appreciated.
This is some type of bantam
Fluffy necked
small comb but long legs like a "teen" roo
Pretty sure its a pullet...
We have always had snakes around and I do anything I can to make sure they stay out of my coop and pens. I have lost my share of young chickens and eggs to snakes and last year one got in and took my baby lion head rabbits and spooked the parents so bad they got out and ran off. I did put some...
I do understand most of your responses to my request, I have been teaching a lot about the care of the chicks since I started the eggs in the bator and I am requiring that they take the information sheet home and have it signed by the parents if it is okay for them to get a chick. I also expect...
Hey All, haven't been on in a while 'cause I've been student teaching over here in Conroe.
I set a whole bunch of eggs in March and then realized the eggs were set to hatch over Easter Weekend and then just the other day I saw the whole group that had set eggs to hatch for Easter on purpose...
There is a place like that over off of 59 going toward New Caney when you come out of Cleveland, at a tractor sales store. Haven't been in a while so not sure how many are there in the cooler months but they are there most weekends when its warm. They have all kinds of animals too. I know I...
What if anything do you do differently with the quail? I got a few eggs at the trade day and they hatched okay but didn't live much more than a day. Do they need special food? Yours look great Yardbird.
Hey guys, I wanted to tell yall what happened yesterday to one of my girls. I went to let them out and I use a tarp to seal up the door so nothing can get in; when I pulled the tarp back one of the pullets went with it and at first I thought she was tied up in a loose strand. I went to turn...
Hey guys, finally got some pics of the cresteds. I think I have a pair of black and a pair of reds and a few extra hens. Would like to maybe keep one but if anyone is really interested let me know. Also if there are any others in the pics anyone likes just let me know, I have so many right now...
Okay so it has been a while and now they are pretty big and I would love to know what these guys are, I have never seen anything like these two especially.The first two pics are of the same one, I think its a roo, what do yall think?
They should be full size, but not real sure, I ordered a batch of assorted extras. 15 of them were the cresteds, they look cool but I was more excited about the Americanas in the group. I'll try to get some picks tomorrow they are all a little ugly after the rain last night. (I almost lost...
Hey everyone, I got a bunch of babies from Ideal in September, half of them were crested, not sure what breed or if it is a breed but they look really neat. Is anyone interested in having a couple, you can pretty much tell male from female now because of the crests (they are much bigger on the...
Thanks for the advice guys. I will have to look into the fowl pox, I would have never thought of that. I rairly if ever have health issues so really didn't know what to think. It must have come from the hatcher or my other birds have more ammunity to the virus, because my crossbreeds didn't...
Hey guys got another problem (I guess it never stops). My chicks are getting swollen eyes. They are a little over a month old and about six of them have their eyes swollen shut, some of them look like the eye may be gone. The first one I noticed had a bump (red growth, nodule, wart...) and...
Know the feeling txmel; I've been trying to work on my coop for at least a month now and it is always too hot or too wet. Don't tell my husband I'm complaining though he'll think he might have a chance of moving me out of Texas. Like that will ever happen! I did get a little work done today...
Thanks again PunkinPeep! I cannont believe my luck that only one of the seven is a roo, I know I am not going to be so lucky with the ones from the hatchery, I can already tell a lot are roos. Oh well they sure are neat to watch anyway.