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This is my first year raising bantam cochins. I've raised their "cousins", LF brahmas, for quite a few years now and thought I had it all figured out. One of my cochins, a save from a feedstore, turned out to be a frizzle who did fine in her small, mostly docile flock until one morning I found...

My eldest brahma girls are now nearly seven years old, healthy as all get out. They still lay, although they do take longer molts than they did when they were spring chickens. My flock matriach, Bella, is a dark brahma. She injured a leg when she was a pullet jumping down from a high roost...

I used to be excellent at determining gender because I had a lot of one breed - brahmas - and they are very easy to sex at a young age. My seramas are pretty easy to sex too. Now I have two new breeds that I'm in love with - cochins and bredas - and it's proving quite difficult. I have a...

I know how to sex most breeds, based on the secondary sex characteristics that show up at 4 to 6 weeks old, but without a comb on the Breda I imagine the task will be a bit more difficult. Any suggestions? I have nine from a top breeder - six blue, one black and two splashes, all 3 weeks old...

I had a LF brahma go broody on me. After several months of trying to break her and only managing to frustrate myself I ordered her some blue breda eggs. The breeder (a very nice man) included a few extra eggs. My broody had an excellent hatch and all but two of her chicks are blue. I was...

Our older GSD Jax tends to get ear infections in his right ear (3rd one and he's 5). This time around the vet put him on a 14 day antibiotic and ear drops. The ear drops are no problem, the capsules of the antibiotic are. Jax is too smart for his own good...we're talking about a dog so smart...

Looking for something different for my broody brahma to hatch I came across Breda fowl and fell madly in love. My hen has six, I hatched out three. Here is the broody's six on their way to the juvenile coop (mama went with them). I believe there are four blues and two splashes, the splashes...

I have two german shepherds that many of the old-time BYCers know well - Ajax "Jax" and Kane. One of my favorite online activities is to play a multi-player game where individuals join teams called clans to play and I happen to be in a international clan with players from all around the world...

Let me state right off the bat that I hate incubators and artificial hatching. To my way of thinking, God gave me good broody hens for a reason, I stink at incubating. I have run into a problem and I'm trying to get as many opinions as possible before making a decision. I had two hens...

More a little vent here than anything else. Last year we were needing a larger amount of eggs than what I could get from my elderly brahma hens and my single serama hen (who is always broody). No chicks were to be had, so I contacted a friend of my husband's that had some young FFA red sex...

My hatchery of choice is Ideal and when I need hatchery chicks I usually order from April to May. This year I needed chicks later in the year and Ideal was sold out of the breeds I wanted, so I decided to give McMurray a shot. I ordered 15 of the "feather footed fancies" plus a pair of polish...

This is what happens when you let a first year goose keep all of her eggs, hoping to get "a gosling or two". She had 11 eggs, managed to hatch them all, but one baby was crushed shortly before or after the hatch when the nest got too crowded. With Dad, Tuffy.

No matter how many chickens I ever own, Thor the brahma roo will always be my favorite. Big, beautiful and a sweetheart. Unfortunately we had to put him down due to his bad leg, about a year and a half ago. Needing another excellent roo and tired of dealing with butthead ones of different...

And I'm very excited! My ducks are HQ indian runners with the sweetest personalities. They were brooded with the geese, so I think they are a little confused about what species they are. Others have told me their runners are skittish, but mine are not. Non-skittish to the point of running up...

In the past you have stated that I have a preference for raising "non-real" chickens. I'm wondering what you would call my latest flock member Widget? Widget is 6 months old, so full grown for all intents and purposes. She weighs 9 ounces and is approx. 5 1/2 inches tall. So is she real or...

grit? I have a pullet that has a severe crossbeak; including a skull deformity. Though it breaks my heart that she can't eat and enjoy treats like her hatchmate can, she seems content. She's active and seems healthy enough with beautiful plumage and bright eyes. Yesterday I noticed her...

that can be bought OTC without a prescription from a vet?

get bigger? She's about 8 months old, lays super regularly (6 days out of 7), but her eggs are still small. She's been laying for at least 3 months now.

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