Really appreciated your demo. We bought 30 Cornish cross chicks to process in June..did this a lot growing up but your refresher course, with all the great pictures, was a real help. Thx again
And turn off the light. Their bodies need rest time to recover from molting, winter AND malnutrition. Give more protein and a good layer feed/pellet. A great protein “treat (not intended to replace layer feed)” is Grubbly made in USA, it’s dried grubs. Also fresh, clean water. Let them rest and...
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Myself and several friends raise Ameraucana hens and we have all experienced them to stop laying after doing so for several weeks/months. They stop, then after a couple weeks they start laying again...
i, and sevetal friends, have Ameraucana hens. weve noticed after laying consistently for months they will totally stop laying for a few weeks then start laying again. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal for the Ameraucana breed??? We all feed high quality organic layer pellets and...
My year old Americuana is not laying. She was fully feathered but some feathers were still encapsulated at the start of fall. She’s not laying and wondering if this is typical of americuana’s....not laying in winter??? Any input, suggestions, experiences appreciated.
That's what I was thinking too. But today, Nov 14, My 29 wk old Dark Brown Leghorn (Iris) laid her first egg and my first egg in my back yard 2 hen project. Poor Iris has suffered several stressful situations, losing her sis then her replacement "friend", a silver laced Wyandotte (Dottie) that...
I was recently shown (by a chicken breeder) a method of plucking out the flight feathers rather than using scissors to trim them to prevent flight. I have posted questions about this method on byc n also searched the internet and cannot find anything. Can you provide me any added instructions or...
I've recently learned that cutting the flight feathers leaves sharp edges to remaining feather that CAN cause injury to chicken when wing folded next to body. I was shown how to PLUCK the flight feathers instead of cutting. I would like to find a video as reminder on how to safely pluck the...
They are all young. I live in town and have small back yard. Recently one of my original 2 hens died and the remaining LH (17 weeks old) was very lonesome so I added the Silver laced Wyandotte and the Olive Egger (both 14.5 weeks) so none of them are of the "noise making age" yet. The Oliver...
I added a Silver Laced Wyandotte and an Olive Egger today, same hatch date and same breeder that I got my Dark Brown Leghorns from. The OE is Rusty Red and Gray (think this is a Blue something) but can't find pictures of adult OE with this coloring. Anyone know what the cross might be that this...