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yeah, they have been getting lights inside the coop for the last 2 months every day from 530 am until some time around 8 at night..... my turken has layed every day for hte last week... finally after being bright red faced since 4 months..... my siltans have been red faced for at least a...

We live in Iowa, Irealise it is getting a little colder here but it is still in the 60's in our area (but not for long...) but as normal... the days are getting shorter.... Anyways... I bought silkie chicks the last week of march this year and since it is now november... I'm wondering why they...

I found some photos of condemned birds... seems the slit the throat and look at organs but nothing looked remotely alike... confused..... I trust their judgement since they look at poultry every day and I am glad they are cautious but i dont knwo that Im convinced!

ill elaborate more on the white spots.... they were not bigger than the .period on your keyboard... very small and not clustered.. jsut random.... thye showed me a few on the neck area so right around the collar bone area and then the flipped it over and went in the cavity to show around the...

Yes, I've found some stuff about how they get it but... it seems that these roosters had it a recovered BEFORE I got them since we have not had any signs of it here.... Maybe I'm too fearfull but I was planning on moving some of my pirds into the pen these roosters were in and I'm going to...

Really? Nothing? I've tried searching the internet for answers for the last few hours but have not found anything helpful.... hope someone knows something that might help here....

I took my roosters to the butcher this morning... 2 large wyandottes that came from another farm back a few months and 7 home raised americanas.... the 7 that were raised at home were fine and disease free. The 2 wyandottes on the other hand, I was told and showed, that they had chicken pox...

is it possible something died underneath the building or got boxed in somehow...... the wind is probably pushing the smell around.... great coop by the way.... Do you have a ny fruit trees nearby... i know our trees drop fruit the rolles far away and after it starts to ferment and the bugs get...

Hi everyone, I'm in Nevada IA. I'm sending out a distress signal here! I have spent a lot of money and ordered eggs online twice now and between the post office x-raying the eggs and them just not developing to hatch like all of my other eggs I have to abandon ordering eggs because it is just...

Yeah, I want it gone but I'm too afraid ill hurt him..... if the othe chicks pick at the toes i may have to cut or just wrap them up and see....

No powder.... maybe I should invest in some.... it's freaking me out.... i think it is tormenting me!

It's kind of creepy! When i pick him up his little legs flail and i can't look at them fly around... eeeewwwwweee ahhhh! if i let him walk in my hand the little dangles tickle.... I'm creeped out.. something will have to be done!

I just had a chick hatch that is a silkie RIR cross... it ended up having 4 normal toes and one abnormal on each foot.... on where the normal silkie would have the two upward pointing toes there are two but one is dangling by a small piece of skin that is weird... like it is dangling by the web...

I must find the crazy stuff on the internet! Hahaha!

I read on a few sites a while back that Silkie skin color is sex linked.... crossed with anything light skinned will produce dark hens and intermediate males..... This is not too detrimental to my plans or anything but just not what I expected..... I hatched 8 chicks so far from a White Silkie...

Quote: So pretty, I want one!

Anybody else? These birds are awesome.. i just hatched some oeg/silkie and they all ended up with 4 toes, one has feathers feet and almost gray skin and they have a 50/50 peacomb and single.... the rir/silkie ended up 3 of them, 5 toes,all peacombs, all light skin... hmmmm interesting!

Quote: When he starts acting like a teenage boy attending his first dance. Seriously, if he's crowing then mating shouldn't be far behind. He does not seem to have too much interest yet, but when he does.... is it healthy for any chicks he makes? I'm hatching out a few eggs from all the...

I have a barred rock rooster that just began to crow (still pretty sad sounding). How do you knwo when they are ready to mate?

I have had great luck with barred rock and white rocks.... would have to admit that my RIR is awesome though... she can go a whole month without skipping a day.... a stressful event like kids chasing her or a cat on the coop will cause her to miss though.... oh and don't forget buff...