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I have been looking to start breeding my own line of a breed that is particularly rare in the region but have been having a bugger of a time finding a good quality rooster. FINALLY find one. Yay! He has not shut up since he's been here. I truthfully do not know how he has not starved to death...

Anyone have a recommendation for where to get golden sebrights? I've been looking for nearly a year and cannot seem to find them out here (well, 3 birds on craigslist that I wouldn't have even been able to identify as sebrights as opposed to bantam-crosses). I have an absolute fantastic hen...

I had a family emergency and had to go out of town unexpectedly. The day I ended up leaving, I had bought a couple HUGE rhubarb plants and put out an entire bag offf the iron-based 'bird/pet safe' slug bait in an area that the poultry normally can't get to. In my dash out, I managed to leave the...

I'm giving up trying to get Sebrights locally. The one gal who bred them retired & the few people who have them w/in a 2 hr drive are asking $25-$35 per bird (no way am I paying that for ornamental bug eaters!). Now I need to decide which hatchery to order from. They all seem to come out to...

One of my cochin hens has decided that she is going to hatch some eggs come hell or high water....or, in this case, me going in and petting her-which she hates-and trying to harrass her off several times a day. Considering she is sitting on fake eggs I put in there to deter the corvids from egg...

I'm curious at what age people stop grinding the crumbles finer for their quail chicks (regular coturnix, not jumbos)? Mine are now two weeks old and seem more than big enough to eat the regular crumbles but won't...they throw out all the bigger pieces, eat the 'dust', and then cry until I give...

Ok, I admit I never really thought much about getting peafowl...especially since my grandparents had such a nightmare trying to get rid of a flock of feral ones that came with a property that they bought. But now I live in an area with such a dear over-population that my objections to them...

Anyone know of any breeders/hatcheries that sell sexed ducklings or ducks along I5 between Olympia & Eugene? I still want to add a couple (each) of Cayugas, Swedish, & khakis. Seems like all I can find around here (Eugene) is either unsexed, which I don't want to deal with, or adult WH. I like...

I had to keep everyone locked in an outdoor pen for a few weeks to home-in some new birds. The pen is about 60' diameter & encloses the ducks' pond as well. I've been leaving the gate open for weeks & for some reason even the old birds weren't venturing very far out (they have 7 acres they can...

It's been close to a decade since I had quail but I'm thinking about getting some coturnix quail so I can start making pickled quail eggs again. When I had quail before, I happened to have an empty pen made out of hardware cloth but this time I'll be building from scratch. Well, actually...

What is it with boys? Why oh why is there always one duck that ALL of the drakes seem to want to the exclusion of all the other girls? A couple years ago it was my favorite little Australian spotted that all 3 or 4 drakes went after to the exclusion of the other dozen or so girls. I have a...

My little sebright rooster (hatched mid Sept) is still in the process of learning to crow & apparently is now proving he's a modern man because he is now 'brooding' a couple eggs his mom laid! He dashes out to eat & drink and is clearly healthy & agile (as demonstrated while I chased him...

Nearly a month ago, one of my minis foundered for unknown reasons. Not overweight, no feed changes. Our only two guesses are that either someone gave her an excess of treats (we live on a dead-end road that a LOT of people use for walking) despite us being set back, or it was mechanical due to...

Because I'm seriously toying with the idea! I have an adorable little GL sebright roo who is just learning to crow. The only other hens right now are standard cochins and the sebright mother (the roo was thrown in as an unsexed fluff-ball with his mom). I've been trying to decide what I want to...

This is a little black banty hen (pictured next to a standard NH Red for size comparison) that was one of my favorite birds ever. They were part of a flock that came with the house we bought 4 years ago (hence the scaly legs...they were quickly treated & cleared up but this is the only picture I...

I've been debating what to do for some outside pen/coop lighting (have a group of ducks who want to sleep on their small pond instead of inside) to try to get my egg production going again. I've been pricing some fancy-smancy (and very expensive) outdoor lights but then I saw the 1/2 off LED...