This is my favorite chicken breed, despite my love of the "cute" breeds with fluffy butts and poofy heads. The barred rock isn't unattractive, but is plain in a world of fancy chicken options. However, I've had this breed in all of my flocks over the years and it more than makes up for its plain...
I have a cocker spaniel and chickens too. There is absolutely no way, short of intense aversion therapy (like shocking my dog for getting close to the chickens), that my dog would ever be trustworthy around fowl. And I'm not going to shock her because her breed is bred for bird hunting... to use...
You'll need to restrict their feed instead of letting them eat 24/7, and keep them active if you intend to have them live much longer than 3 months old. This breed is bred to be ready for butchering at 8 weeks old, and they grow so fast and big that their bodies can't keep up. If you don't keep...
I'm looking for an extremely friendly breed. I mean, I want a breed that doesn't take hardly any effort or time to get birds that actually want to be touched and petted, etc.
I've had this experience twice before- once with an old english game bantam, and once with a barred rock.
Now, in my...
You would be happy with a goose that you have raised from a gosling. Just make sure you get some good goose diapers and that your bird is allowed to be outside daily to graze on grass. But hand raised geese *do* like to be hugged and petted and loved on. They bond to their "parent" for life.
I've been wearing the mask, but it is so uncomfortable. I know that feather structure affects how much dust is produced, but I'm not sure if the breeds with abnormal feathers (such as silkies or asian fighting breeds or turkens) are producing more or less of the dust. I'd rather not have to...
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I'm allergic to just about everything now that I'm older.
Chickens are tolerable so far, but they do definitely aggravate my lungs.
The amount of dust that come off of these guys is extreme.
With parrots, certain species produce less danger than others. So my question is, do certain...
My old english game bantam ROOSTERS are my most friendly birds. Now, all my hens have been skittish little things but I adore the roosters. They even make great little house pets. I only have one D'uccle and it is flighty as heck. I've yet to have a modern, but I hear they're even more naturally...
I see that broad breasted turkey toms can get to 40lbs at 20-24 weeks of age, but just how big can one of these dudes get if allowed to grow as long as possible?
Also, do the whites or the bronze get bigger?
Thank you for your reply! I would not have thought to look outside of the bantam breeds, since my order was 25 assorted bantams, but Ideal Poultry *does* have both blue andalusians and golden campines, so maybe they threw these guys in my bantam assortment by mistake? If it makes any difference...
My guess is they are both old english game bantams. I bought them from Ideal in a grab bag.
The grey one's name is Pellie. I believe he is a self blue old english game bantam. But he has a tiny bit of darker blue spotting, so I don't know if he is a splash? Or is he a pearl? Or is he none of...
Those are pekins.
You can tell because
1) TSC orders from large hatcheries, and there are only a tiny fraction of hatcheries out there that carry muscovies of any variation.
2) Muscovies have large claws and feet that behave more like chicken feet as far as grasping and climbing. Those are just...
my 3 week old embden gosling is biting me.
It is unsexed but I call it a him.
He is hand raised and imprinted to me. He loves me! But when I'm petting him or he is sitting next to me, he is almost constantly biting me with a twisting motion. It hurts!
I've tried holding his mouth shut, hissing...