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So I'm a junior year poultry science major at Mississippi State University and I just recently heard today that when I graduate and start working in the poultry industry I won't be able to raise my own birds because of diseases and cross contamination. Is this 100% true? I couldn't imagine not...

Bought this little guy today. Is he male or female? The color of the cere is throwing me off. Also what's his color morph called? He's a real pretty pastel color. Any idea?

we've had a ton of rain here lately so my coops and their runs are just muddy nasty fly ridden mud pits with no grass whatsoever. I was thinking about alternating the chickens to other pens for a few days and throwing some grass seed in their coops. Is the grass from those quick growing bags...

I live in vicksburg, ms. To say its humid here would be a vast understatement. Since it is so humid here, wouldn't it make sense to hatch eggs in an incubator outside (like in the garage/barn). My thinking is that it would more naturally mimic the humidity levels that the eggs need and so I...

I've always been curious as to where I get my eye color from. I'm literally the only person in my family with brown eyes. My parents, sister, grandparents, aunts/uncles, etc everyone has either blue or bluish green eyes. Here are pics of my parents eyes, my sisters, and then mine. Tell me what...

These are my rooted weeping willow cuttings that I've noticed have some leaves that are dying. Any idea what the cause is? Is it time to plant them? Could it be our weird weather of freezing one day and 75 the next?

Any idea what breed these guys are? My TSC has these kind and Pekins. I know they're not Pekins because if you look close enough at their faces they have very light faint stripes, kinda like rouens and mallards have. But of course to the employee at TSC they were all pekins.....

He's in with a flock of which leghorn laying hens and was wondering what breed he is? Also anyone have any idea why he is being bred to white leghorn hens? Thanks.

I have a golden campine hen who I plan on breeding to my delaware marked turken rooster(one of his parents was a delaware and the other a turken) anyone have any idea of what I should expect? Here's some pics Rooster: Hen:

I'm a sophomore poultry science major here at mississippi state university and for my commercial poultry production class we have to do a 5 page paper on something poultry related -- doesnt matter what just has to do something with poultry. Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be much...

Im looking to buy a few peachicks preferably white or the standard India blue. I'm located in central ms on the la border and I WILL TRAVEL! So if you've got any for sale comment here or pm me! Thanks!

I have a mixed color silkie flock and last year I hatched out 2 beautiful hens that are almost completely blue, but they have a little gold leakage in their neck feathers. I know when you breed 2 blue birds together you get 50% blue, 25% black and 25% splash, but would my two blue girls still...

I bought 4 ducklings from my tsc, 2 rouens and what I think are 2 cayugas. The duck bin at the store had khakis, rouens, pekins, and Swedish. I don't particularly like the look of swedish ducks, so I got these 2 black ones because they were PURE black. They have a tiny tiny hint of yellow on...

Bought em at tsc last week. Pretty sure they're rouens, but seeing all the pictures on google has got me confused. Any thoughts?

I went to tractor supply yesterday to get chicken food and decided to get some ducklings while I was there. They had rouens, pekins, khakis, and blue and black Swedish. I got the employee to pick out the last 2 rouen ducklings that were left (I figured rouens would blend in better and have a...

I have many different colored silkies: 7 roosters(2 white, 1 buff, 1 dirty looking buff, 1 blue, and 2 almost black with a tiny bit of buff in the hackle feathers. I have 8 hens(2 white, 2 splash, 1 buff, 1 blue, and 2 almost black with buff leakage). I REALLY want some partridge silkies. Are...

I got my first 4 chickens 7 years ago, which were 2 pair of OEGBs. 7 years later my oegb flock consists of 1 rooster and 5 hens, all of which came from those 4 birds 7 years ago. I haven't added any new blood. Is it time to add a few individuals with new blood to the flock? I'm scared if I don't...

I currently raise Silver Duckwing OEGBs and am considering ordering some Red Pyle OEGB eggs. What would come out if I were to breed the two varieties together? Would one variety be more dominant over the other? Would the males and females be sexually dimorphic like the silver duckwings are...

I've heard that this makes the birds feathers more shiny, but can it also increase breeding activity?

The rooster shown below is from an accidental crossing of an OEGB rooster with a buff silkie hen. It can clearly be seen that he was WHITE skin and not the dark skin usually seen in silkie mixes. This is him: I mated him back to pure OEGB hens and got this hen, who is technically 3/4 OEGB...