Is anyone bringing pullets and hens for sale again this year? My friend and I are looking for hens/pullets.
And what is best time to get there to purchase? It says the event starts at7am on the fairgrounds website
I picked up 6 crested cream legbar pullets. They don't have blue ears. Does this mean they will lay brown eggs?I specifically got them for the blue egg not brown, as I have brown egg layers already. So do I just wait till they start to lay to see what color egg they lay?
I have 2 Flemish mixes I saved from the crockpot last week.
Elmer and Lola are learning litterbox training and to drink from a water bottle. They are getting used to being handled and are gaining weight nicely.
they lived in a crate with urine and poop and we're covered in it.
The are bathed...
My hens are taking turns humping each other - why? Mating season?
And three of them ganged up and went after a new hen i got in sept, we had to seperate the three from hurting the one.
Yet after all this they all are peacefully sleeping and foraging together fine..
What is going on?
I have no...
One of my EE that i got in September died today. She was acting fine up to this morning when we found her all puffed up laying in the pen.i took her to my vet and xrays showed her gizzard was overstuffed with oyster shell pieces or pebbles .. The vet and i couldn't understand why her gizzard was...
I tried a easter egg recipe from the chicken chick on Facebook and the eggs came out great. You take 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon white vinegar, 15-20 drops of different food dye colors or Wilton's icing gel, shallow bowl and add warm water. Mix all together then take hard boiled egg...
They cant wait for grass and spring. I've been changing things in the pen to keep them busy, hanging kale, collard greens, Brussel sprouts, adding pine needles, pine shavings and alfalfa grass and topsoil
My hens are a year old . I had bought feed from the local farm for them at 16% protein . I was feeding nutrena 16% crumbles . The farmer told me that 20% protein is only for growing baby chicks and that adult hens laying eggs should not be on 20% protein... If that is true why does purina flock...
I have been diagnosed with asthma and need to rehome my three untamed parakeets
All are supposedly male, under a year old/not hand tamed..
They will come with the cage that i got when i bought them..
They are free.
I am in northern New Jersey near the PA/ NY state border
I am not happy to do...
Since Dora has been house bound with wry neck, i noticed her top beak is too long. Its now going over her bottom beak and i dont know how to trim it... HELP.....