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Not necessarily. I've had one or two of these without a rooster around. 0% chance of fertilization. It can also be caused by small amounts of bleeding when the egg is forming, usually from a ruptured capillary. It can also be a sign of reproductive problems starting in a production breed hen...

Yep-- same experience here. My EE never gets 'shaved' but the faverolles do pretty regularly. I don't know why, but there it is! Even my sassy one gets trimmed.

My other hens 'liberate' my Faverolles from their beards regularly. I think they must have some ideas about proper ladies and beards.... anyhow, my favorelles just LET it happen with a dreamy look on their faces, so I sort of just shrug!! I suspect this is what is going on with yours, too. My...

Yep. The whole thing is a nightmare. I'd never do it unless it was my only option.

Hello Star spun... I think you will find the process of importing you birds into Canada a huge headache. I tried to adopt a pet cockatiel, which is a parrot, to a friend in Toronto once. It was really a nightmare and we didn't even go through with it. They require a long quarantine process iin...

Rancher, do you ever have trouble with predators? We have problem bears here and I'd be scared of using a hoop like those. I have to put electric fencing on anything I want to protect. Last season, a neighbor had a bear pull her heavy shed doors off to get at her guinea fowl.

True. But I suspect that even then the grasses and so forth that the cow is eating, and is biologically able to process better than grains (and some of the other sad stuff commercial beef are fed), are overall going to make a healthier end product than a feedlot cow-- I where I hardly know what...

I just bought 1/4 of a cow that had nothing but pasture his whole life, and it's the best tasting beef I've ever had. I'm delighted because I know even the fat on this meat is healthy (fat is where critters store toxins and other badness). There are a lot of variables that factor into taste...

Poor girl! Yes, in my experience this is normal until their egg cycle becomes more 'regular'. I got both oversized eggs (double yolkers sometimes) and tiny eggs form my girls when they first started. Two+ years later, the eggs now vary a little bit in size but are much, much more consistent and...

Lichen is not an indicator of health-- nor do they harm the tree. The actually don't absorb nutrients at all from the surface they grow on. The are an indicator of good air quality-- though most of us don't live urban enough to worry about that too much, I think. Lichens of this type indicate...

There are no hard rules to Lyme disease. Indeed you are more likely to get it if the tick finishes its meal and lets go, but you can also get it if you remove the tick improperly or agitate it so that it regurgitates back into your bloodstream. Some people get the bulls-eye rash, and some people...

Your doctor may have been uninformed-- MANY doctors are, sadly. I have chronic Lyme. Did they do any blood testing on your Daughter? How was she diagnosed with Lyme?

Josh, I just saw your thread in the emergencies section re: crop issues, and I think it's just impacted. I responded there, but massage plus a bit of oil has always helped me in these situations. Sometimes it does take a while. In this situation I would not attempt to aspirate via needle unless...

Just so you know, the crop is not centered on a chick or an adult, but it's especially obvious on a chick. The crop hangs to the right of the bird's trachea/neck. This photo is of a parrot, but because the bird is naked, it clearly demonstrates the location of the crop. It is not centered, and...

A refund does seem in order!

Gosh I hope they wouldn't take them back. That's asking for a boatload of trouble.

Oh dear, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you were for shooting hawks. I think that prevention and deterrence is ideal, too. I meant to make a general statement. My apologies!

All hawks can be migratory, and they can migrate by the thousands. There is a location just south of us NYers that is famous for watching hawk migrations by the thousands called Hawk Mountain in PA. This part of the country is a huge migratory channel. See here...

Fellow NYers... I just wanted to let you know that our state (Cornell) no longer does testing on poultry. We were referred to GA state. Very sad to learn of it as Cornell was one of the best in the nation for diagnostics.

Depending on the age of the little one, and how rebellious in nature she is, it might be well worth your time to have dad or whomever is most familiar with the gun teach her about it, with a very heavy emphasis on safety and respect. I grew up in a household with firearms, and even though they...