Search results for query: *

Hello folks. Looks like one of my growing babies has Mareks - she has her adult feathers at least. I found her collapsed on one side, spraddle-legged, with cold legs. She appears to be suffering from progressive paralysis. I've been trying to keep her temperature up with heating pads, and...

I got this girl from a breeder in Australia (just down the road from my place). Marans genetics are apparently pretty limited here. I actually wanted a Black Copper, but just couldn't afford the prices of them, so decided to get a wheaten instead. However, she's very red, with a black tail...

This is just a thread for me to muse about my flock and any potential breeding projects that I get going next year. Mostly, these are all pets. The Anconas: Since the Ancona breed is said to originate from Italy, and since these two were born on Halloween, they have Italian Halloween type...

Here is a 14 week old grey-mutt silkie... This one is way bigger than my two partridge silkies (I have one male, one female, yay for self-sexing silkies!). I thought it was a hen, but...I'm not sure. Sometimes it stands up very tall, sometimes tilts forward a lot. The head is basically a...

Londo Mollari from Babylon 5! Any one else have lookalikes to show off? :D

I know it's supposed to be impossible to tell with silkies for ages - and this one is about, errrr thirteen weeks old? But what are people thinking? Because it looks kinda rooster-y.

Hello folks. I'm wanting to find chukar partridges in Vic, Australia, preferably adult birds. I am essentially interested in a cock and two to three hens if possible. I know this is a slim chance, but if you are in the area, please PM me and we can arrange something. -- Steamy.

Hello folks. This is for me to document the building of our coop and run. It's going to be slow since my partner and I work full time and have a toddler and a 3-4 hour public transport trip to that work, which means very little free time. We're getting the run done first as we have a metal...

Little rooster or little hen? Has a long feather tail already, as seen in the second picture, and it droops down in a sort of curvy fall rather than standing up at all. Very friendly, the friendliest of my babies, actually.

Hello folks. Does anyone know of a source of sweet PDZ, zeolite, or stall freshner in Australia for good flock management? I'm starting to work on setting up the outdoors location for the flock, and I'm almost not at home during the week at all - I leave in the dark and get back in the dark...

Hey folks. I have a 3-4 day old silkie chick who seems very drowsy and who is absolutely tiny - a fraction of the size of even the other silkies. I now realise that her egg was tiny too. All of my other chicks are very active and talkative, and play with the toys I put into their brooder -...

Hello folks. Wanted to see if anyone else liked drawing or sketching (I assume yes, there's artists lurking everywhere!). Here's a picture of a silkie chick I drew today - would love to see other people's drawings, or sculptures or any other forms of creativity.

Hello all. I'm new to this forum as a poster, but have been reading for a while. I live in a rainforest (technically, wet sclerifal but like a temperate rainforest) in Australia with my partner and our nearly 3 year old, two cats and hundreds of 'wild' parrots. Who knock on the door for food...