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I see a lot of threads for birds that are attacked by predators, and some are followed up with how the surviving bird is treated for injuries, and survives. Let's see those predator survivors! Please be sure to include the type of predator they survived and any other pics. This is my girl...

About 2 months ago, I was walking along the edge of the woods on my property and I spooked off what I thought was a lone wild turkey. I heard flapping and frantic clucking which I've heard before when I walk up on them roosting before dusk. I've seen dozens of wild turkeys around here and didn't...

I'm searching for Faverolle chicks in or to be shipped to Louisiana. Please let me know what you have available!

I've got a couple of splash birds and I want to know more about the color. Can y'all point me to some resources on the genetics of splash? Does it only occur in blue genetics? Everything I found about it online just rattles off the rules for breeding blue birds and that splash is one of 3...

My neighbors are really sweet. He walked over today with not one, or two, but FOUR bantam chickens. I do not know bantam anything. I can clearly see that there are 2 roosters and 2 hens. They seem really mature. Red faces and combs. There're in a terrible state of molt. I immediately...

I posted about this in the Louisiana regional thread but haven't gotten a response yet so I figured I'd throw it out here, too. I'm preparing to go through the NPIP inspection. I'm just looking for tips or advice on from people who have done it before. For some reason I'm nervous, lol. I want...

Gardening newbie here. A few years ago I attempted to grow a vegetable garden. It was small, about 10x8'. I started with corn, okra, Tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumber, zucchini, and crook-neck squash. My corn grew into balls, my okra was raided by ants, and I somehow ended up with...

My feeders and waterers are relatively new, about 1.5 years old, but they're falling apart. I have a few heritage farms metal bucket style feeders from TSC and some plastic hen hydrator 3 gallon bucket style waterers from TSC with the nipples attached. None of this is out in the elements but...

Lately I've been cooking the same stuff over and over. I'm from southeast Louisiana so it's traditional Cajun and red-@$$ fare- soups, stews, gravies, gumbos, roasts, sauce piquant, etc. However this weekend Id like to try something different. I like recipes that take a little work and have a...

This is my 4th batch of incubated eggs. I candle on day 5 and 7 because I like to get an idea of which eggs to watch closely depending on how much they have developed by day 5 (spot or veins or not, air cell, etc.) and how much the develope from day 5-7. Well as I was doing my day 5 check, I...

Im looking for blue egger chicks, birds, or eggs. Super blues or Arkansas blue eggers preferred. Please reply or pm me with price and availability. Hoping to find something in the Louisiana/Mississippi area.

I have been on a life quest to find a gentlemanly rooster- the criteria being good with the girls and doesn't attack people. Note: Monogamy was NOT in the criteria. Well, after going through 6 roosters in the past few years, I have one (so far) who is, for my situation, a very good boy. I...

I've got a couple dozen eggs set to hatch out, most are Cream Legbars (CL), but some are CL X Cuckoo Maran (CM) crosses (CL rooster over a CM hen). The chicks of both these breeds were auto-sexing. Cuckoo cockerals were almost a light silvery color, while pullets were much darker and richer...

I have 3 pullets laying who up until yesterday were breeding with my Cream Legbar Rooster. 2 are CLs and one a Maran. I had rehomed the rooster yesterday because he was getting a little too cocky to have around children. I wanted more CLs off of the ones I had so I have a dozen or so eggs from...

I was deworming my chickens for the first time and demiting them for the second when on of my rowdy cuckoo marans was flapping around and lost a patch of skin and feathers. Any ideas on this?! Fungal maybe?

We've been under a lot of stress here from the floods, losses, and sick birds. To keep me sane, I hang out with my three year old and my chickens. I have two cockerals because I love everything about roosters, except when they mature into a-holes. Crowing is at the top of my list of what I love...

I got a pullet at 9 weeks old about a month ago as part of a trio. So she's about 13 weeks now. My other 13 pullets and cockeral are all vaccinated for mareks, but this trio was never vaccinated. Over the last week, I've noticed her holding her right eye shut. It's not swollen, watery, or...

So, we survived the flood and everything is going to hades in a handbasket It's been raining non-stop for days where I am, and although the flood waters have receded, the weather is still taking its toll on my birds. Im fighting what appears to be coccidia (darkly colored diarrhea) for the...

This black beauty was brought to my mother in laws and she was told it was a flood survivor. I cannot keep him or her but would like to find him or her a home. Thanks to the floods, I am now battling coccidia and what appears to be mareks in one of my unvaccinated birds and I don't want to...

My 4 week old light brahma cockeral has something strange on his leg that I just found today. Is this scaleyleg mite? Or a scrape? None of the pullets seem to have anything like this. Please take a look at this and let me know how I should treat. It doesn't rub off easily like it would if...