Recent content by amsunshine

Thank you everyone, your replies have been very helpful. I appreciate it.

Thanks tho in this case they are using 2 numbers to describe the bird. So 10-90 - for example - what is the percentage of white? 10 or 90?

I heard someone refer to a pied peacock as 40-60 and another as 10-90? What does that mean? I assume blue to white ratio, but which is which? Is 40 the blue, or the white? Thanks in advance.

Thanks. On your recommendation, I did not sell these two. I'll give them a bit longer to prove themselves. Thanks again.

Two years ago I bought this pair of young adult smooth-breasted Sebastopol geese. They were sold to me as young male and female, but I'm beginning wonder if they're two males. I've vent sexed them and think I did see male apparatus on both, but am not quite sure. Though they hang around...

I think I figured it out! Lavender Orpington! https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=LAOS

They just came to the store today in the mail and then I took them home right away. They are all tired!

Picked up this chick from the Pan Fry cage at Orscheln's. Trying to figure out what breed he is. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance!

I have a tom turkey who is showing similar symptoms to chickens I've seen with mycoplasma galliseptum. Can turkeys get this too? Looks like his nose is runny, he's got his head pulled in a little, and his head looks a little swollen (not much). He's still walking about and eating normally...

Yay! Thank you! I've had these a few months so raised them from little babies. These are only our second and third turkeys we've ever had, so just getting familiar with how the different sexes look. Thanks again.

These two were sold to me as hens, based on a ring on a string test done as I watched. Curiously enough, the sellers say they interpret things the exact opposite way of what most people do. I knew them a little before, but I'm hoping they weren't just trying to get rid of toms (I wanted hens)...

That is so sad about the battery hen. I know they don't all look like that. Is it any wonder that chalky-yolked, light yellow-yolked, tasteless eggs come from a bird who looks like this?

Thank you! These guys are about 4 months old now so I will let them out today and see what happens. :)

We have 2 turkey poults, about 3 months old, that are in pen in the barn. We also have a young adult jake (male turkey) who free ranges 24/7. He does not leave our farm. Are the poults old enough to start free ranging with Felix yet, or should we wait till they're bigger? Felix knows...

Thanks, perhaps I could. That pen is now occupied by 38 chicks I hatched from an incubator...would require some moving around! Thank you for the idea.