ALABAMA!!

[Alabama Fly]

Hey y'all, I'm in Tibbie, AL, Washington Co. Originally from Mobile.

Welcome

 

[Alabama Fly]

HI I'm in central Alabama. I have a few mixed breed yard chickens, a hen and a tom bronze turkey and two dogs. I'm looking for someone close that has dominiques. We just tested out my sons small incubator with our chickens eggs and got 4 out of 6. The two that didn't hatch looked like they where not fertile.

Welcome! That's a good hatch. I haven't seen many Dominiques around in the last several years. Not even at the 2 large flea markets that I frequent.

 

[Michelle1079]

Welcome to the ALABAMA thread! Ask any questions and I'm sure many people can help! What poultry do you have? ( if any )

I do have chickens, about 40. I have white and brown leghorn, black australorp, new hampshire red, brahma, silver laced wyandotte and mixes of all of those and a silkie.

 

[Mahyatt]

Birmingham area. Have bared rock, jersey giant, EEs, Whiting true blue, fc marans and soon to have silver laced Orpingtons.

 

[joandphil]

Hartselle, AL...almost in Falkville, but not quite! Two New Hampshire red hens and one rooster; three Silkie hens and one rooster; two frizzle hens (we hope!); one Black Orpington hen, one Blue Orpington hen, one Easter Egger hen, and one hen which wasn't identified but looks an awful lot like a Lavendar Orpington with some small buff streaks. She's pretty, so she came home with us!

 

[AUChickenGal]

Lost another bird yesterday. I was late (6:30) getting home from work to lock up the coop and found my beautiful Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner pullet lying dead and headless on the coop floor. Other than the feeder having been knocked down (which happens a lot), there was no sign of the coop or fence being damaged. The other five birds were roosting like normal.

Argh. I can’t say for sure whether something came in and killed her (and left the others undisturbed?), or if she died of some other cause and her flock mates decided to cannibalize her after the fact. That’s three birds (one killed by a stray dog, the OE that got sick and died, and now this one) I’ve lost this winter, after going more than a year with no problems at all.

 

[tmoore8595]

AUChickenGal
If the head was completely gone, it was probably a raccoon. The other chickens would not have eaten the skull. If it was a raccoon it will be back.

 

[Kmonteiro13]

Me! I live in Mobile County!

 

[AUChickenGal]

AUChickenGal
If the head was completely gone, it was probably a raccoon. The other chickens would not have eaten the skull. If it was a raccoon it will be back.

I would have expected a raccoon to take more than one chicken, and not in the middle of the day while leaving everything else in the coop and run (fencing, bedding, etc.) completely undisturbed. But who knows! My resident hawk was hanging out in the tree above the run this morning, so the girls are on lockdown either way. It was a sad way to start the week, for sure.

 

[Alabama Fly]

Lost another bird yesterday. I was late (6:30) getting home from work to lock up the coop and found my beautiful Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner pullet lying dead and headless on the coop floor. Other than the feeder having been knocked down (which happens a lot), there was no sign of the coop or fence being damaged. The other five birds were roosting like normal.

Argh. I can’t say for sure whether something came in and killed her (and left the others undisturbed?), or if she died of some other cause and her flock mates decided to cannibalize her after the fact. That’s three birds (one killed by a stray dog, the OE that got sick and died, and now this one) I’ve lost this winter, after going more than a year with no problems at all.

So sorry.it hurts so bad to lose one,and somehow it's always the favorite or the special one that you need for breeding. It's maddening to not know exactly what happened also.