Thank you for your informative reply! I had cleaned and emptied most of the pens that those birds occupied when the outbreak started, cleaned the concrete with bleach water just because that’s what I use for bio security for my shoes. I have the majority of the birds left in one pen with little...
Hey guys! Literally haven’t posted here in a few years!
Anyway I raise only silkies in a nice Cleary Barn, concrete floors etc.
But this year I bought layer chicks for some fresh eggs. Unfortunately, somehow, those birds ended up with Coccidiosis. Literally have NEVER had coccidiosis here, but...
I pose them with a training stick, its like a pointing stick for teaching. any stick will do. I fluff tail up and tap the neck under chin to get the head back, or you could lightly tap the beak and the bird will back its head up.
I absolutely LOVE my brooder house set up. In fact I loved it so much that instead of using the show cages on the left side of the building, (I actually hated those) I had him finish putting in all built in pens like he had on the right side. So now the whole building is homemade built ins. I...
my Narragansett hybrids do not want to set very well, but my blue slate is good at it.She sat faithfully for a month andthen I got concerned about her eggs so I pulled them and incubated them. They all hatched. Ithink it just depends on the breed and their willingness to set.
Thank you so much for the reply. All of the toms and the 1 hen were raised by us since day old, so maybe he thinks that they are people too LOL. They follow us everywhere when lose. I sure do not want to kill any of them, and would hate to get rid of one of them to someone else, however, if it...
We got our turkeys for pets in April of this year. We had 3 toms and 1 hen, so I went and found a few more younger hens. So now we have a total of 7, 3 toms and 4 hens. They are all great and have been friendly. Winter time is upon us, and we had to force them into a building each night we...
I am not new to chickens, and I used to have guineas, but the neighbors dogs prevented me from keeping the guineas cause they traveled too much to be safe. I got the turkeys this year, hoping they would stay closer and eat bugs, and they do. I have decided that I love the turkeys and now have 7...
I just happen to pop in after a long time, and see this thread. I am almost an expert with the Lyons, I had at one time as many as 5 of the TX's and a RX. You cannot go with a better incubator personally. I just personally sold all of mine after almost 10 years to purchase birds and I have 2...
If I had to make an educated guess, I would say you got them from a hatchery? Yes, he appears to be a OEG, however, hatcheries often cross OEG to Dutch bantams to get Dutch bantams in color varieties that do not exist in the US. They sell Dutch bantams in BB Red, which is NOT a recognized Dutch...
maybe a speckled sussex rooster? Not surprising, likely someone had this boy for a while and suddenly got in trouble for have a rooster wher ethey were not supposed to. My cousin out of state has been harboring a rooster for a year at least but knows its a matter f time before he gets caught.
I got my first batch of water kefir done for my sour crop patients, but I do nott think I can drink it myself, it smells yeast or femented, I know its supposed to. I pored a lttle of the water in the dogs water and the cats, as my cat has a really bad gut.
Are the kefir grains good to eat? I ate...
Sometimes hens take on the male role in the flock, though usually this happens when there is no rooster present. I have had Dutch bantams hens start crowing while they were away from the males for 2 weeks prior to a show,(but in the same building) its a little hard to explain to a judge, yes...
they appear to be polish to me, If I had to go off of your options. I think I see a kind of "cap" on the head. As for your mystery chick, I believe you are right on about a silver sebright
I am sorry this is happening. I try to respond at least to people who have no answers because I know what it is like to not have anyone answer you. With you being from Texas, I have never seen this before in any bird, my gut says that she, they, got bit by something, some kind of spider, snake...
I have a silkie hen who had an inflated crop for...a while. I thought it would go away on its own and it did not, so I seperated her this last week and have been treating for sour crop. I was surprised she was still alive to be honest, as she is very thin.I have vomited her a few times, and have...