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Are there any roosters that don't have hackle feathers?

Our 4H Poultry group is going to sell started pullets. We ordered a bunch of pullets from McMurray but have no idea what breeds some of them are. I'm hoping ya'll can lend a hand. Thanks!

Does anyone have eggs available?

Would really like 4-5 chicks if anyone has them available. Although I'm not opposed to eggs.

We got two of these little guys/girls at the end of TSC's selling season. The one picture was taken with a standard Fav chick that is about the same age.

So we've had this duck egg in the 'bator for just over four weeks. Ana candled it today and pronounced it dead. She asked if she could open it up and take a look - she's always curious about how far a chick/duckling developed before it died. She cracked the egg and dumped out a duckling with...

We had our first duckling hatch today. He had a small bit of egg attached to him via what I am assuming was his umbilical cord. He just laid around all day on his side. When we picked him up his head was really floppy. Jacob pulled the egg shell off this afternoon which I'm guessing probably...

I've got a faverolle chick that just hatched this past Thursday (4/22). He came out of the egg with his left eye closed. Jacob opened the eyelid and saw the eye but it was kind of back in its head. I know I saw the little guy open his eye Sunday. It looked a little gunky but otherwise ok. Today...

I love chicks! I got some Faverolle eggs from Bantyman (Mike) and they went into the 'bator three weeks ago. There was one pipped egg this morning and I heard some peeping. I checked on the eggs about three hours later and there was a chick running around - not from the egg that was pipped...

So we moved to a house right outside village limits. The neighbors have ducks and chickens and guineas so they don't mind our boys. We've got a smallish stable that the previous owners used for horses some time ago. I have no idea how long ago but the place is covered in cobwebs and dust. There...

I am searching for banty faverolles to add to our small flock. Can anyone help me out?

I am at a loss here. We just found our second dead bird this week. First was a banty brahma and then a mallard drake. We had 5 ducks (1 Cayuga, 2 Mallards and 2 mixed breeds) and 13 chickens (several different breeds, mostly banties) when we moved last week. Our new residence has a small barn...

We've got a Blue Dutch cockerel (Jack) that's about 9 months old. He's usually very vocal and active. A few days ago he and Pecksley (5 month old Salmon Favorelle cockerel) had a little chest butting incident over a pullet ... boys will be boys . The funny thing is that Pecksley seemed to wind...

Pecksley is our 4.5 month old Salmon Favorelle. He's been crowing just fine - until today. Whenever he tries to crow it kind of comes out like a little cough/sneeze. Sometimes when he breathes it sounds a little gurgly, like he has a frog in his throat. His eyes and nostrils are clear. No...

We've got this cute little banty buff brahma that is nearly three months old now. She is just the sweetest little bird we've had but she is acting kind of strange. A few days ago she would kind of just stretch her neck out a little bit and kind of tilt her head to the left and she seemed kind of...

My youngest son Jacob and I are the main chicken fans at our house. DH could care less. When Jacob and I left for a 4H event back in June and left DH in charge of bird care, we came home to four dead ducklings We went to the poultry show in Frankenmuth yesterday. No babies - our youngest birds...

We had to move all of our birds a couple of weeks ago after a visit by the local police. I checked with the village hall and we are not allowed to keep livestock in village limits - never mind that this was the 2nd year we raised turkeys in our backyard for 4H AND we've had our breed birds for...

Now that fair is over it's time to thin our flock just a tad. We've got a standard sized cockerel. Not sure what breed he is but he is mostly white with some brownish coloring. He's nice looking but Joe, our Favorelle roo doesn't like him so we need to find him a new home. We also have a...

The kids are raising Cornish for 4H. Fair cannot come soon enough this year Anyway, today was our day to care for the 4H chickens at the farm. We have broilers and Cornish together as we always do every year with no problems. Today we found a problem. It started sometime in the past week, not...

Our Pekins are just over two weeks old now. One of them can hardly walk. I knew he was having problems but it seems to be getting worse rather than better The leg is really turned in and seems swollen around the knee (is it called a knee on a duck?). The other three seem to be headed the same...