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So, many of you know the last year (Fall 2020 - Now) has been pretty shit for me. I had foot surgery in Oct, house fire in Nov... and now, we lost our whole flock over the weekend. My neighbor who has been watching the flock for me says a bobcat has been hanging out. Well, sometime on friday...

Hey all, Its been almost a year since I've been around, but I'm back! The last 6 months have been hell.... To copy and paste from a PM with a friend: Sorry for not replying in months.... Or being online. My life has SUCCKED in the last 6 months... Foot surgery in Oct, making me...

I'm looking to expand my flock, and I'm looking for true ameraucana chicks; Splash, Brown Red or Silver. I live in Eastern Ct, and willing to travel w/in reason... so MA, RI, maybe southern NH and VT and eastern NY. If you have chicks, please let me know and again, I'm looking for true...

I figured I would post this here, since I hang out most here... I’m not gone! I promise! Just tough times with accessing this site. I’ve been still at work (I work for a government contractor) and they’ve recently blocked this site. At home all I have is a slightly aged tablet, without a...

I have a blue cuckoo araucana cockerel, Ann Charles from Sky Blue Eggs lines. He’s double tufted, sparsely, and rumpless. The only reason I’m getting rid of him is I have too many cockerels and my hens are being over bred. Can’t ship, will travel within reason to meet you. Pm me for details.

https://www.wfsb.com/indian-man-dies-after-getting-attacked-by-his-rooster-on/article_1dc3149f-a0f4-5be4-9793-172581666a47.html (CNN) -- An Indian man has died after a tussle with his rooster -- on their way to a cockfight. Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a...

Its interesting how an animal, with no natural predators, can explode in population so quickly! From 300 breeding pairs in 2002 to 64,000 individuals now! This is the Greylag Goose, btw. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50816678

My gold spangled hamburg, who used to lay very light cream eggs, has gone trans! LOL she’s always been growing a spur, but now her comb has gotten Huge!

Lookit the wattles on that bad boy!!! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48868164 Rooster Maurice in noisy French court battle with neighbours. A rooster named Maurice, whose early-morning crowing got under the skin of his neighbours, has become the focus of a court battle in France...

Ok, I'm not a genetics type AT ALL. I'm not even sure where I'm going to go with the combinations I have presented to me, but I'm curious where the first cross could take me... and if I decide to keep going. As some of you know, I used to have a white araucana rooster, white to go with my...

Ok, so this chick isn't a Faverolle... I know that. What I'm really interested in is the Salmon part. This chick is from a project breeding group for salmon araucanas. Now.... with everything I've learned on here, even though I've never had a salmon chicken before.... This looks like male...

This is very cool! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48229317 Endangered kakapo parrot gets pioneering brain surgery Vets in New Zealand have performed life-saving brain surgery on a critically endangered kakapo parrot in a world-first procedure amid efforts to save the species. Surgeons...

Give us the kitchen scraps, and nobody gets hurt!

For those who have this coop... I wanted your thoughts on it. Honest reviews. Keeping in mind, I'm not thinking about using this as a coop. I was thinking about using it as a broody box. Some place for a hen to brood eggs and raise her chicks until they can get up into the main coop.

I'm starting this thread to document my first time incubating eggs. These eggs, if fertile, would be fathered by my rooster, Napoleon. He was stolen from us a week ago, by a human, and I’ve been collecting eggs since. Napoleon was a tufted white Araucana, a beautiful boy who was great with my...

Will hens lay fertile eggs? I can't remember. Earlier this week my rooster disappeared. Personally I think he was stolen. He was a beautiful double tufted white araucana, and was wonderful with the ladies and with us people and the dog. I would love to hatch his eggs, if I can, and my...

Apparently researchers in Canada are trying to find out what makes chickens happy. https://www.wtnh.com/news/what-makes-chickens-happy-nobody-is-quite-sure_20181220104101/1668165012

To the peeps that have their lovely hens hatch their eggs.... How can you tell who will be a good momma? What would you say your hen's success rate is? If last year was any indication, I have a persistent broody, who insisted on brooding nothing all summer. I would take her out, put her in...

Who's going? If your showing, what are you bringing? If your selling, what are you bringing? http://www.poultrycongress.com/

Well, they're coming out with numbers now. According to this article Florence's flooding killed 3.4 Million chickens and turkeys, and I presume that's in the commercial farms, not the small time farmer, or the back yard chicken keeper...