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Then definitely molting. I always assume the worse before assuming the best. If you're not seeing anything on her skin, or the feather shafts then molting.

Yes it's just her. She preferred humans and cats over other chickens. We tried. We tried hard to get her to accept a flock. She noped out of all of them. Even beat up my friends huge rooster when we tried to take her there and be part of that flock, and jumped the fence. 8ft fence too. She ran...

Do you see anything moving around on the skin by the feather shafts? She looks like she's molting.

So my 7 yr old son has a naked neck chicken he's had since it was a chick. She's about 4 or 5 now. I can't remember. We'll be moving to a different state this coming winter. She's healthy, and happy. He has already told me if we don't take her (already was planning to) then he won't be going...

Well the 5 chicks in question are definitely Black Copper Marans. Looks like judging I have 2 boys and 3 girls. Which is better than what I thought I'd have seeing as they were straight run like my Naked Necks were. They're growing and happy so far which is a good thing. I only want to keep 1...

Hey guys haven't posted in a while. Well all the chicks I've raised in the last 2 years have been from my broody Brahmas (which were raised by momma Callie and Catie) and some meat birds last fall. So I hadn't had much interaction in the raising process. I've decided to let my Brahmas retire and...

That's what I was thinking. I was thinking my "late bloomers" were boys, and the "early bloomers" were girls. Meaning the ones who got their feathers first were girls, and the ones who got them last were boys. So far 2 of the 5 still don't have tail feathers and look more chickish than the...

I recently decided I'm not going to let my Brahma chickens raise anymore chicks. It's just too darn hot for them here in Southern NM during the summer. I also decided to get some breeds of chicks I had really been wanting. I now have Naked Neck, Maran, Easter Eggers, and Red Production, along...

Hey guys, I recently (as in 2 days ago) planted a couple boysenberry bareroot plants. I planted them in my garden along with a brown turkey fig tree right outside. I added some worm castings and mycorhizal fungi with everything. I have mushrooms coming up everywhere after a nasty storm...

Water water water before you think about planting. Before I put down my BTE stuff my soil was hard rocky sand clay with lots of caliche. It's still rocky sand clay with calivhe, but now I can actually dig a bit to plant transplants. You can see the difference between the dirt right outside the...

I loved his videos. I've even written to him and received a letter back. He's right though if you think about it. Nature takes everything and continuously gives back. My area doesn't have a chance to do natural cover because of our fall and spring winds. I'm helping nature by adding the wood...

Paul Gautchi actually gives away everything. Well except what they eat lol. I decided to move some of the mulch around 1 of my trees while trying to pull grass yesterday and it's starting to break down. I put a little blood meal on when I added the mulch back in February. This tree went through...

Can I have some of that? Lol. I live out in the middle of the Tularosa Basin in NM. We have nasty caliche clay soil. I've been working on trying to get a BTE garden going. I have a small bed right on the east side of my porch that I've had Rosemary in for about 3 yrs. I got some alfalfa grass...

Lol welcome to Brahma envy. My Foghorn is a bit smaller than that rooster is. Foghorn is also just 3. A lady I met on this board helped me with mine. All my chickens except my hatchery girl are big Madea is about the size of my youngest girls. They're just 7 months old now. She's 3 yrs also...

I put in a join request and am waiting to be accepted. Well Katy has decided to brood some eggs. I'm going to let her do her thang. She's a good momma.

Hey guys, I'm new to ducks. My children saw some ducklings at TSC in our area and I got a couple. Yes I know impulse buying. They were about 3 days old when we got them. I had them in the house (smelly little stinkers) until they were 4 wks old. I had been putting them in the bath tub to swim a...

If you look at my pics I have a pic of my rooster and a dark hen, and a pic of Madea. She's still small and she's older than Callie the other dark hen.

My breeding stock are all heritage/exhibition stock except my 1 hatchery girl. She used to be mean as a hungry snake. Since she's integrated into the flock she's nice. She's smaller than the rest, but Madea is a keeper. I won't get hatchery ones again. My males were complete jerks. It didn't...

Just remember the hatchery brahmas are not APA standard. That's what I started with in this breed. I love Madea who's my last hatchery hen out of the 6 I originally got. I processed a couple of the cockerels, and some just weren't healthy. All the rest of mine are from show lines and jave been...

Remember Brahmas are big. The main things I've had problems with were juvenile hawks, and an owl. A motion light got rid of the owl, and the hawk I finally got to leave because I was going out and chasing it off. I don't know how they'll fair with other wildlife. I would try to make the coop as...