I have one olive egger, Tink, and one ameraucana, Wendy, in a blended flock of (now) 15. I raised Tink and Wendy together from chicks, and only one (assuming Tink) lays blue-ish/green-ish eggs. It’s been months since I’ve seen an egg that color. Did she stop laying at 2 years old, or did the...
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A friend of mine recently(2 weeks ago) picked up 5 chicks from a local feed store. They were marked as pullet Americanas.
One of her chicks looks like a possible roo suspect and we would love to hear y'alls thoughts! It is still veeeery early for guessing since they...
I recently saw my sister's chicken, Beb, limping around. I picked her up and checked her foot to see some sort of 'scab'. It might be bumblefoot, but since I'm a new chicken owner, this is my first case of whatever this is. Based on basic images, I can't decide whether it is or not, and what to...
today was a sad day :( my sister's white leghorn (Yello) abruptly died. well, not so quite abruptly...
maybe around late 2020, like november, we saw her getting chased around by the other chickens. we picked her up to see her butt extremely bloody. We snipped off her butt feathers and cleaned...
I was checking on my quails and one appeared to not move. This was not normal as the quails are very scared of me so they’ll usually be running around, like dodging my hand but now this quail was just laying down, so I just went over and tried to pick her up and she didn’t respond at all. she...
my quail has died. i recently bought 16. all were fine except one of them. She was in so much pain she couldn't walk. she was losing feathers from other quails trampling her. she couldn't even get food or water from her pain. I flipped her over and she had some bumble foot. along with that there...
My dominate rooster was too rough on our hens..so we served him on dinner table:confused:. Now there are two rooster who are son of the older rooster we had...they both seem to bee equally dominant...but as the old rooster was culled one of my chicken started mounting other chickens..!!
Are not...