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holy cow, I want some of your barred rocks. My incubator is overflowing. I hope you'll still be sending out eggs in 2 weeks!

they are spectacular, beautiful birds! Now I'm having thoughts that I know my husband won't like...

well, guess he needs a new home!

thank you both for the replies. I'm thinking you're right. D'uccle pullets have big red combs and wattles and their feathering is more similar to the roos than in other breeds. But the saddle/sex feathers and hackle just look too much like a roo.

Honey may be a slow developing roo. Now a month later, I'm seeing some sex feathers that are distinct. I just don't know but I think it is a roo after all. edited to add: This d'uccle is 5 months old, fyi. what do you think?

it was conjuncitivitis, thank goodness. After 2 weeks of terramycin ointment, it finally got better! thank you everyone

This little mille fleur d'uccle is 5 months old today (20 weeks). I kept it thinking it was a girl but now I have my doubts. It acts aggressive to the other girls. And then it's getting these pointy sex feathers. The majority of the pointy sex feathers are on one half of its body. So, is it...

My FBCM's look like that too and after a month of laying, I haven't stopped admiring them!! Congrats!:woot

Quote: x2 I love my chickens but they make my garden and yard look saaaaaad. I put plastic fencing around my berry and vegetable gardens and just let them destroy my flower beds. Any berry bush or vine/plant that hangs over the fence has been stripped bare. All flower beds have been...

thanks, I found some at TSC but it was $16. After 4 days of doing 2x/day, I have seen no change in her eyes, though. I just don't know what it could be.

I'm so sorry!! That is so sad to lose so many of your chickens!! Just know that it happens to so many of us. I lost my first flock of 4 to racoons and foxes. The raccoons really had me scared and I was really worried about what they would be able to work through. Foxes and possums are so...

oh, wow! So sorry to hear about Mrs. Wiffle!

I had sneeze-y chickens too and their sneezes flared up with my allergies. Tall grasses and seeding time just might affect them the way it does us. Just a thought. If only 2 have been sneezing for two weeks but none of the other 14 have, then I would definitely lay off medication. Just...

Quote: Thank you, Miss Lydia! I was wondering where to get the medication for the eye. I always get great advice from you!

yes, you're right about Marek's being really contagious. However, there are a few reasons that make me think this isn't Marek's. 1) There is inherent genetic resistance to Marek's among many birds. If all of your flock comes from the same line that lacks natural resistance, then yes, one...

kazzandra, thanks for the input! Honestly, that's what I was **hoping** someone would say! Because, as I said, no other symptoms. I really was hoping Rosie's limp was just a sprain that would go away and that Miette's eyes are just genetic & exacerbated by the heat and grass. Rosie, the one...

I forgot to mention that you don't need to worry about pain management. Just go for it. Keep her down, preferrably lying down with a towl over her eyes. They usually calm down right away. If a second person helps, it makes it a ton easier. They don't feel pain in the way we think, more pain...

I've only been doing backyard chickens for a year so I'm pretty new at this. I don't know what's serious or what's not serious. I posted about this pullet's eye a few days ago. (Miette) Here are pics of the eye of more than a week ago: and here are pics that I just barely took: so...

Wow! That was a horrible injury but it looks like you're doing a good job. I don't know too much about this, but for what it's worth, I'll put in my 2 cents in case it helps. For lancing, it is my experience that chicken's abcesses are thick not liquidy and pussy. So, I would cut a straight...

thank you. I will go get eye drops then. Unfortunately, we're going out of town in a few days so this is a bad time to just be addressing this issue. To be honest, we've been so busy lately that I had noticed her eye like that for weeks but kept forgetting to take pictures. I finally did...