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so one of my bantams had hatched yet another few chicks without me knowing about it. two survived. And they where doing just fine they are about 2 weeks old until one day i go out to feed them and the two chicks are peeping their heads off but they didn't move from their nesting area. they stood...

Well after getting payed i bought 6 full grown citronella plants to combat the blood suckers this year. I haven't planted them yet as i wanted to use them in a hydroponic system\filter i'm making but what i want to know is are these plants toxic to ducks i caught one trying to eat a leaf and i...

Well I think I may have a olive egger at first I thought she was a champine or how ever you spell it but she has a beard and a pea comb not to mention she has been laying olive colored eggs what do yall think

I'm Putting together the my list for breeds i want for the spring and i know mostly what i want but i also wanted a calm white layer i have a white leghorn right now and i don't think she will be staying. She is very flighty and is normally one of the last to roost at night which will not do...

I have 2 anacona drakes (with sex feather) that are human friendly that need a good home or a place in someone's freezer also i have 3 roosters (all bantam size) that need a home or again a place in someone's freezer i'm in grand prairie tx please PM me for details

Well where to start i guess i start with the big one first my oldest hen is 32 weeks old not to mention she is still not laying but one of my roosters keeps mounting her regardless what is going on? I do let my flock free range but only later in the day after i get home from school (4-6pm ish)...

I am looking to get rid of 2 roosters. I need the birds gone as soon as possible. I am in the grand prairie, texas area. Note i am willing to take a best offer and a separate knowledge wavier must be signed for all birds leaving my property weather for meat or pet purposes. This wavier states...

Well it seems i have gotten myself in a thanksgiving pickle. I really wanted to hatch out a heritage breed of turkey for thanksgiving but everything got in the way and it got late in the year, now it is reaching 85F-95F in the middle of the day. Not to mention the only breed that would reach...

Wanted hatching turkey eggs I don't mind what breed but i have these requirements 1. Size is important.i would like herige breeds but as of now i would like BBW's eggs as they are the oly breed that will to get to wight in time. as for hertige breed eggs I need large breed birds that get a...

well with the two of seven chicks from the teacher in Dallas...well the first one that caught my attention was the little blue\Grey sneezing chick (i have never seen a chick sneeze before). And one yellow chick that was acting lethargic picking it up and looking at it i found out it had the tip...

so to start things off i have never had this issue when raising chicks with my grams (when the heat lamps went off they stayed off and the chicks where OK). I'm going to be hopefully () hatching out ducklings this next week lock down is next Tuesday and I'm having some issues with the younger...

well this is my grams last chicken he is a bantam rooster. He hasn't been crowing or sleeping on his roost for about a week his eye's are dilated his comb is turning a dark blue color at the tips and he hadn't been eating or drinking and is having problems standing and is very lethargic. He was...

I was wondering what color skin do Narragansett turkeys have while some of the birds i will be getting will be pets i will be dressing out a few for next years thanksgiving and i want their to be as little difference in between the store bought ones we buy every year as possible.

Well even through i haven't gotten the egg's yet I'm going to be trying to hatch out some heritage Narragansett turkeys and i was in the middle of building them their coop when it hit me. I have no idea how tall to make this thing i was aiming for 30in even. but i have never even been up close...

so i got these chicks from a for free ad here on backyard chickens but i think the teacher that hatched them out got played for her money because i have never heard of clean legged Brahmas none of these chicks look the color of most Brahmas i have seen but i could be wrong. this one really gave...

Well to make a long story short my two 12 week bantam chicks went from eating out of my hand and letting me pet them while they eat to running for the hen house and come short of hurting themselves getting away from me every-time i walk into the coop OVERNIGHT what happened? Should i be worried...

I'm getting some Ancona Duck hatching eggs soon And i wanted to know can a dry incubation be used with ducks? It's also called dry hatching i used this on some chicken egg's is this last cino de mayo HAL and none of the egg's hatched. Heck none of them even developed no veins no blood no nothing...

Well unbeknownst to me my mother was talking with my brother last night and she told him that bird need rocks to digest food with and he put his old aquarium gravel in the run last night!!! And it's not even been washed (it did rain last night through) what do i do? I picked up most of it but...

so i wanted to test out my new coop to make sure that the birds couldn't get out and nothing could be in. So i got two "7 week old" chicks to test the cage before my eggs are due to hatch. So firstly the black bird has ALL her feathers and is very aggesive to the other so called white rooster...

So as many of you know today is easter and with that i have 6 egg's i have been incubateing and serveral cousins etc that have been dieing to know how my hatch is coming along i was hopeing to have them farther along befor easter got here but the shipping was late. so i would like to know from...