Recent content by Midnightman14

There's a book Cranes Their Biology, Husbandry and Conservation by George F. Gee it will answer everything.

I use wood ash but I pour it slowly back and forth between two cans for a bit to get all the powdery bits out. It's an old prospecting trick but it works with ashes too.

I had one year about 4 years back where most of my hens just did not lay. It happened to everyone and we never figured out what happened that people's birds just weren't laying. I still have those birds and the next year they laid as if nothing had happened at all.

Mine start around two but older males keep them kind of cowed until they're big enough to not get canned if they try to start something.

the light is going to make him shed sooner

A rare walking pecan? Someone dumped redbull on it probably.

yes, they also do not often let themselves be herded indoors if they would rather be outside. They are much better fliers than turkeys and they often prefer sleeping in trees. They are only loud a few months out of the year but it is piercing and throughout the day and night

Don't just don't.

I think it depends on the bird species in question. If say you have goldens or amhersts and you're not able to keep them without blinders it might be worth re-evaluating your practices. The lophurans, green peafowl, tragopans, and junglefowl though I'd be a bit more hesitant to judge if...

Feeding nutrient dense foods is more important than water soluble vitamins at least initially. I use Farmers helper chick crumble mixed with regular chick starter and dusted with some roasted mealworms. The worms seem to kick some innate instinct in the chicks and they begin to peck at them...

(rave beat) nts nts nts nts nts nts (laser show everywhere) wub wub wub

They are not good for beginners. Their microbial tolerance is non existent

sounds like someone sprayed some sort of pesticide or herbicide. Doesn't even matter if it was on your propert, if it's adjacent even it can effect them.

yep. That's why alot of pheasant people are so tight fisted with their birds. They don't want them to go to people who will cross them to add zeros onto a price tag. There's also the fact that the pheasant hobby is conservation oriented rather than ornament collecting.

The india blue is extinct as a species in captivity in the United States because of hybridization. Sure you get some that are superficially "blues" but often times you can see the result of Spalding heritage in the form of coal dusting coloration on the front of the wings. Wild blues look...