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Thank you for the reply. I sat with them for 2+ hours today, turned over some portions of the run, drained the duck pond, and just watched them. A few had some feather lice, so I went ahead and sprayed them for that. Everyone else was acting normal. None were standing off by themselves, none...

I had a less than 1 year old pullet pass away ago 4 days ago. She was on a nest, so I assumed it was a laying issue. This morning I found a 6-7 year old dead hen in the coop on the floor. She was of normal weight, and had no visible external parasites. I have 39 total chickens now and 13 ducks...

Thanks. I wasn't counting the ridges as points. So if I was only looking at just the combs, I would pick the one with the finest texture and smallest thumbprint and pick hens with the proper number of points to get to a better rooster. Obviously I know it goes way beyond the comb, but the two I...

How many points does this guy have? I think though his tail might be too upright.

He is straw colored? Also, is this 5 points or 6? And is this a thumbprint comb? Don't mind his missing beard. One of his girlfriends is a feather plucker I need to remove. Also are the brown margins on his black tail a major fault if they are supposed to be solid black?

This guy is 8-9 months old. He's always had some wing/feathering issues. At this point, does this look like a permanent defect?

I finally got my APA SOP (YAY!). I am trying to pick which of my 3 salmon faverolles roosters to put in my breeding pen. What color is "straw"? It's not defined in the definitions section and the colored pictures in the book show it as almost white.

Oh I know. I have already done 8ish. Left are two bantams (not problems) 3 salmon faverolles that I am trying to figure out which one to keep, an easter egger that is not a problem that I am keeping. Then there is "Whitey" who is a royal pain but I am waiting to do him with the two reject...

They hatched in June of this year. Its not all of them that were brooded in that group, only about 1/3. This won't fix that group - but I ordered a light and a timer to put inside of the coop at dusk because last night, almost all of them were on the floor with just 5-6 on the lower roost...

I put a layer of old carpet against the wall closest to the house, then put a layer of plasying sheeting over that to cut back on dust accumulation. Then I blacked out the windows and put a flap about a foot away from the open eaves to still allow air flow but block light from coming in. It's...

Omgggg it was rainy last night, so I didn't put them in coop. Welp 1:30 am, crowings starts. And I relocated the 3 offenders back into the coop as I have been doing every evening for the past 10 days. They still haven't gotten the cue, then they start crowing at 3 am and 5 am from in the coop...

In my lack of planning last year, I ordered eggs from 4 different breeders. 1st set hatched gorgeously, but no roosters. 2nd set were all duds. The 3rd and 4th sets I combined and didn't label them after hatch. I really wish I hadn't combined them. Two of the hens that hatched out of that...

I have a request in to the library to get me a copy of the SOP from other regional libraries, but in the mean time, I really need to pull two of these roosters in a separate pen. I am hoping that I wont have to switch roosters again, so which of these roosters is the "best" to keep with my...

Salmon Faverolles

Does anyone know if I can just get a breed description for a single breed without buying the whole book?

The good news is with them in the coop, I slept!!

I ended up catching the 5 roosters that were under here (13 total chickens!) and put them in the coop last night. Definitely going to block this off so I don't need to army crawl through poo again. I put scratch grains in the coop this morning to hopefully entice them to go in on their own. I...

:caf So tired I put "handphones" instead of "headphones". Even the dog looks annoyed today.

One neighbor doesn't like eggs, or I totally would. The other house might be a safe enough distance away with where their bedroom windows are. Me on the other hand, nope. Flipped the fan on, moved to my daughter's rooms on the opposite side of the house. My husband had his handphones on with...

I am at my wits end. I have 9 roosters/cockerels and 5 or 6 of them have been crowing in the middle of the night, often. The ones that are crowing don't sleep in the coop, they are under the coop, I went out last night to try to catch them and lock them in, but they were too far back and I didnt...