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Just wanted to update that Percy has just seemed to have stopped having the seizures at night and sleeps perfectly fine throughout the night on the roost! I have no idea what could have caused her to have these seizure type things suddenly, just to have them suddenly stop as well. I quit her...

I definitely wouldn’t sell or give away your remaining chickens because if it is something like mareks, it would be devastating to pass that onto someone else and their flock. A necropsy is absolutely the best way to go about finding out what is wrong! Any chance you have metal things they’re...

Ok here’s the chicks now at 9 weeks old today, and here are my guesses! I can’t wait for the 12 week mark which is when the cockerels should be getting those pointy saddle and hackles and then I’ll know for sure who’s a pullet and who’s a cockerel! Chick 1: Pullet Chick 2: This is one that I...

I didn’t get the test yet since I’m waiting to save up some more money for it, but I might not even need to do it because I’m pretty positive it’s mycoplasma. The 2 hens got better with denagard and a 3rd one is now showing a watery bubbly eye.

I’ve been giving the vitamins and nothings changed. She’s not better or worse. 🤷🏼‍♀️ She’s acting perfectly healthy and happy during the day, maintaining her 2nd place in the pecking order, laying eggs, and has gone broody multiple times since. I guess it’s just her thing now, she did start...

Yea if you don't want to pay the expensive shipping it'd be best to find a friend or family member that wants to split the order with you!

Thank you! That hen is a splash Ameraucana from last years Meyers chicks!! My shipping was $15, but that’s only because I ordered over 15 chicks and split them with my aunt to get that cheaper shipping! Below 15 chicks would have been $50.

I ordered from Meyer hatchery last year and all of my girls I got from them are beautiful and thriving! They came all the way from Ohio to me in California, there was one doa, but the rest were very healthy. I got 7 chicks from them last year of all different breeds and all were correctly sexed...

Ok here’s the 6 week update! Lost track of their color marks as the food coloring wore off and I’ve been quite busy with other things! Let me know your guesses on their gender and I’ll give mine too… These white Ameraucanas (plus a blueish one) are quite tough to sex, and they always look...

Yes, that’s an Easter egger pullet.

Definitely not a Rhode Island Red. He’s an Easter egger cockerel!

When our barn cats were kittens we kept them in a large stall until they were spayed and neutered. They were in the large stall until they were 10 weeks old, by that time they knew the barn was home base.

I’ll look into them! I still really do want an Orloff, they’re gorgeous and I’m a sucker for beards and muffs lol. Super disappointed about hilltops, poor Orloffs died within a day or two. Hatched 6 Ameraucanas 6 weeks ago and all 6 are thriving.

Aw a Russian Orloff. That breed is the exact reason I chose hilltop and both of the Orloffs I purchased were some of the chicks that died in the beginning :(

Started Denagard Wednesday evening. UC Davis said that antibiotics don’t mess with the tests since it targets the dna of the mycoplasma. Can’t say if it’s worked for my Ameraucana because her eyes have now been perfectly fine since 2 days before the antibiotics, no other symptoms developed. So...