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Penelope 1 year old mutt hen born and raised in my flock. not eating, poo is gritty, mostly water but some green grit like stuff and a scant amount of white. I feed Layena crumble alternating with flock raiser.(I have chicks and chukars and hens and roosters all together). They also get cracked...

They are 2 1/2 months old and have me stumped! The breeds I usually raise are so easy to tell! Oh and when do they typically start crowing? ok this one is EE/Polish This one is EE, I called it the laced one This is called the black one: and this one is the orange one:

I am feeling REALLY dumb right now and can't seem to get it... Are pheasants, partridge and chukar the same thing? I can't seem to find out where the chukar belong in all this. I need to know so I can do research...my DH bought (unbeknownst to me) quail and chukars....now I thought Chukars...

Hi, long time chicken mama here....see the title? what do I feed them? According to my DH they will do just fine with the chickens, they did fine yesterday with them. Do quail get mycoplasma? Mareks? any other diseases I should know about? Can quail take denagard? I have a bad...

ok, I have NEVER bought eggs to hatch cuz my broody hens do it for me :) However, I found a lady close to me that has phoenix eggs and I really want more phoenix. so I bought 5 (would have bought 6 but the lady broke one in transit to my house ) I set those 5 eggs under my broody on...

Sucks, somehow I got Mareks disease passed on to my flock. Really unsure where it came from, but I lost my lil roo a few days ago to obvious mareks, lost a hen last night and I am not really sure if it was mareks or something else. Just realized this morning that I have an internal layer that...

So I have now owned chickens long enough that I have old hens and roosters. This makes me think about a lot of things. I wonder - Are roosters fertile longer than 3 years? Does the fertility just decrease or stop all together? Do the old roosters become less concerned with flock ranking and...

I keep having this reccurring dream, it's a little different each time, but mostly the same. It's evening time and I return to my house and start checking on the chickens and making sure they are all in so I can close them up for the night. These parts are always the same.. I have multiple...

I have a hen (about 6 months old) that came up lame on her Left leg last week. I have separated her and have given her vitamins in her water. She is eating scratch grains and can cat food, but wont touch her water or her layena. I am worried...it seems like she is worse, but I have been busy at...

I have these little ones and I can't figure out if they are cockerals or pullets, I appreciate your help! oh and do u guys know if rose combs are dominant over straight combs? I think I know this one, but any ideas on breed as well? and this one: came from a green egg, mama is a mutt, daddy is...

This has been on my mind and I thought you folks might have an answer. A couple weeks ago there was an owl hooting in front of my house. I have never heard an owl here, which seems odd since I live in the woods. Anyhow, the owl was hooting and I heard what sounded like a chicken clucking on the...

I got a mixed batch of orpingtons and wondered what you would say these colors are...is there such a thing as a splash orpington? If you look up colors in the poultry breed book I have it would call them Lemon Blue....what do y'all think? 1 and 2 are the same roo, 3 is the other color

I just wanted to share a happy story. I went out to the coop a few weeks ago and noticed that one of the baby chicks wasn't using the left leg at all. It was hopping around on just 1 leg. Now, it wasn't like this the previous day. So I assume that one of the large fowl must have stepped on it...

so should I find dead birds? left the stupid candle in the yard and busted them eating it!

kind of a long story, but I traded eggs for hatching with a guy I have dealt with in the past. I really wanna put them under my broody but his flock has ILT (so he says). now...I got 2 leghorns from him last year and they introduced the disease to my flock. I thought it was MG and have been...

I often have this dilemma. I love my dog, I take her everywhere I possibly can. She is older, doesn't bark, doesn't bite but will sniff everything 2 million times over (including people). It seems a shame to walk around a neighborhood sale, on a nice day, without my dog. I don't let her go into...

so I have too many roosters...I had a great balance of 4 roosters that all get along and understand the pecking order. Then my broody hens hatched out 5 roos (and 2 hens) so after only getting rid of 1 rooster so far (and the auction isn't until 5/21). So I finaly have an upset in the rooster...

So, my flock is suffering from what I believe to be mycoplasma G. I had been treating them sucessfully with denagard, but then forgot to do the treatment for 2 months. They all were doing very well. and then....one after another the infection started. I started the treatment again, but too late...

I have a broody hen that has been sitting for way too long now...problem is that she is low on the totem pole and the other birds keep kicking her out to lay eggs in her nest. So, what started out as a 21 day sit has turned into much longer. She is looking terrible, but does get to eat and drink...

not to diss the NY thread, but it seems a large majority of the folks on there are on the east side of the state. My purpose for posting is to see how many of us NY's are from the west side of things. And of course, south on down to PA. I get jealous hearing them all chat about auctions and...