I work for a local homeschooling program. They have me working there as a ‘peer mentor.’ (I graduated class of 2020) A lot of the time with these younger folks, they had to be stuck away from others during the most impressionable times of their life. I was eighteen when things shut down here...
Photo ID: a blue chick wrapped in a paper towel
Lol one of my chicks got pasty butt and I had to get them all soggy. I have one bloodline that likes to throw chicks who have pasty butt sometimes. Doesn’t seem to affect how they turn out as adults, I just have to monitor them more carefully.
I watched and read how to train your dragon as a small (4th grade?) child and now all the guys I’ve dated have looked at least a little bit like Hiccup
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I wouldn’t put Serama hens in with large fowl birds, especially large fowl roosters, but lots of people including myself have seen seramas do well as a rooster for a flock of large fowl hens
It’s cool that mosaics are starting to behave more like an actual breed. I was a bit skeptical of them. It’s unfortunate that the original breeder is a bit shady.
Yeah not a silkie
Image description: Screenshot of a google image search for Tengchong Snow Chicken. The image displayed is a rooster with white feathers and a dark red, almost black face.
It very well could. Any high fibro bird is going to be really inbred. I know Ayam Cemanis seem to deal with a lot of immune issues, having spoken to people who own them. But I’m not sure about sumatras. I think they’d be an interesting bird to compare against and see if it’s just a cemani and...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125686
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/13/12/2253
Okay so! Wasn’t actually cancer specifically, what it was is a poor immune system and poor muscular growth. The poor immune system is why I’ve seen so many people with birds with...