The Pita Pinta Asturiana chicken is a dual purpose breed indigenous to the principality of Asturias in north-western Spain. Pita Pinta are on the endangered breed list in Spain and are very rare here in the United States. The purpose of this thread is to share information and photos of this...
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) OE chick, 4 wks old
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Occasional sneezing, gurgling, bloody poo
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? 12 hours
4) Are other birds exhibiting the...
Large fowl Langshan pairs for sale 21 weeks old. Hatched on June 2 from eggs from Pawhead Poultry. Vaccinated for Merek's. $40/pair.
Langshans are tall stately birds with feathered legs. They are gentle and inquisitive birds who are excellent foragers. These birds are young and not...
One pair of LF white Langshans 21 weeks old. Hatched on June 2 from eggs from Pawhead Poultry. Vaccinated for Merek's.
Langshans are tall stately birds with feathered legs. They are gentle and inquisitive birds who are excellent foragers. This pair is young and are not developed enough to...
I am due to lock down my second batch of eggs using a borrowed R-com 50 incubator. The eggs incubate on their sides for the first 18 days. With the first batch I hatched, on day 18 I put the eggs large end up in cut down paper egg cartons. Quite a few of the eggs pipped and tried to zip at or...
I have a 1 yr old SS hen that I suspect has EYP, egg yolk peritonitis. She is definitely not feeling well but showing no signs of respiratory problems. She is hunched over and not interested at all in treats. This particular hen has also started wanting to be in a nest box at night. I looked...
I have a quick question about the r-com 50 incubator. I am egg sitting/hatching for a friend who is on vacation. Lock down is today and I can't remember if I am supposed to take the egg tray out before putting in the egg cartons with the eggs fat end up. My friend wants them to hatch in the...
Please help! I am in the middle of my first experience with hatching eggs in an incubator! It has been thrilling and I can tell will be addicting! I have 3 chicks that hatched earlier than the others and are 1 1/2 days old. New ones are hatching today and the older 3 are pecking on them...
9 week old Olive Egger cockerel chicken looking for a new home. Hatched from an olive green egg. Vacinated for Mareks. 75% Black Copper Marans and 25% Blue Ameraucana.
His father was a purebred Black Copper Marans (dark brown egg gene) and his mother was 50% purebred Blue Ameraucana (blue egg...
We had a broody sitting on a wooden egg for 2 1/2 weeks. She would just not give up wanting to be a mama. So we slipped three 1 day old chicks under her at night. She accepted them right away and has been an excellent mama. Our hens free range during the day and Precious took her babies out...
We use Braggs apple cider vinegar in our plastic waterers. Today DH is humoring me and installing a nipple waterer system. Do any of you use apple cider vinegar with your nipple waterers? The metal part on our red plastic screw in nipples is stainless steel.
We have only had chickens for a little over a year now. Our top hen is a Black Australorp and she went broody about two weeks ago. We don't have a rooster so she is patiently trying to hatch a wooden egg, poor thing. Given that this is her first time to go broody and our first experience...
Our golden sex link hen started limping two days ago. She is favoring her right leg. I checked her feet and legs the first night and didn't see anything wrong. Yesterday, we did a more thorough examination and noticed that her stomach is featherless and bright lobster red. She is still...
We have been anxiously waiting for our 24 week old Easter Egger to lay her first egg. We have a Barred Rock who is around 27 weeks old and has been laying a beautiful light brown egg almost every day for the past 8 weeks. We also have a Golden Sex Link who is 24 weeks old and has been laying a...
We aren't quite finished with our coop and run but someone posted an interest in seeing swing set coops/runs so I thought that I would post pics of ours. First, I want to let you know that my dear hubby is a make it work with what we have builder. I had all kinds of grand plans for what I...
We are fairly new to chickens and have a small flock of 7 pullets (?). Our oldest and top hen is a BR who is 24 weeks old. Then the middle 3 are 21 weeks old: a Gold Sex Link who is laying, an EE who we are hoping will lay blue/green eggs, and a BA who is just beginning to show signs of POL...
We are close to finishing up our coop, finally! My DH is working on the chicken door and the ramp today. I am trying to decide whether to paint the inside of the coop or not. I would love to hear your opinions and/or see pics of the inside of your coops. Also, if we do choose to paint...
We have a Queen Anne cherry tree that is loaded with ripe cherries and of course our chickens LOVE them! (We have one chicken that is 13 weeks old and 3 that are 10 weeks old.) I read that cherry pits are bad for chickens so we pit them when we feed them cherries. We let them free range while...
We are new to chickens and having the best time getting to know our new babies! My BIL gave us our first little chick and we went out a week later and bought three more! Yes, we are addicted already! Our oldest chick is a barred rock that we hope is a she. We live in the city limits and...
Hi, All! We are new chicken addicts here and loving it! We really appreciate this forum and all the great info!!!
Our story in brief: 6 weeks ago, my BIL showed up at our house with a baby chick for my 8 yr. old daughter. He said that it was picking on his layers so he didn't want it. (We...