Recent content by grassfedchicken

Might try Mother apple vinegar and packet of chicken vitamins with electrolytes in the water and a warm nondrafty bed. Sometimes certain breeds have genetic problems that cause them to fall ill like that and sometimes there's nothing you can do. Gold laced sebright roosters and some hybrids seem...

lol. I noticed a huge drop off in predators when I had 2 silver phoenix roos. The super long tail makes them look scary and nonchickeny to predators. The few times there was an attack the length of tail would be gone but bird was okay. One night the head phoenix roo a super sweet awesome guy...

know-it-alls suck. Truthfully I hate cleaning up after poopy animals and we have a good system to avoid it. mine have been mite free for many years. To me the key is free range nonconfinement. We rehab creatures big and small just by free ranging them. Confining the animals is the cause of most...

yea I'm interested in a few turkeys perhaps a breeding trio... I've got a extra splash silkie roo who is free. 7 mo. old. email me

I'm pretty handy at sexing silkies if you can post a pic. By the behaviors you described the outsider could be a second in command male with no mate attached to him or a low order female who possibly could be getting pecked during food tie or unwilling to be mated so tries to hide in the back...

I kept my d'Uccles in a deep bedding cage with hay straw and lots of natural roosts and they were quite happy confined there and mine looked show worthy with huge feet feathers. At that point they never really touched the dirt outside. Later I let them out to free range and their feet feathers...

i propagate by cuttings quite a lot. i use vermiculite in a covered container which is in a window sill. and dip cuttings in homemade rooting hormone liquid made from weeping willow branches which are boiled down. That willow liquid works exactly like rooting hormone. Plants that always seem to...

Hehe, love reading the stories in this thread. From my flock the complainer is an Ameracauna who is my most beautiful, unique chicken. She has never once laid an egg and she is 3 years old. She comes to my front door for food every day morning knowing that I will be out to feed them but she...

To me, it's a bit over the top what you've done, but whatever makes you guys happy! 6 hours per day cleaning chicken stuff sounds simply horrid. We recently downsized my flock from 50 to 10, got rid of all the older birds, and redid their housing, burnt down the old wood one and changed them...

those worms really help young chicks get a bit of weight on them. nothing's funnier then a little chick eatin a big fat worm or grashopper ! heheee

they really are adorable! I love that light buff colored roo! I am not an expert, but If you think he has a good personality, keep him, and if you see him mating too much or too rough, a little 'solitary confinement' can really change his behavior.

my ducks stink too,, stupid snow! these ducks need their rain!!! ciao from iowa sorta near WI

hmm,, mating too much is bad for our flock since it means that the rooster will get too possessive over too many females. I try to let all the boys live that I possibly can. My roosters are all chosen strictly for personality, i watch those boys like a hawk to see if theyre good or bad. i keep...

So sorry to hear that! I thought she'd be okay so i didnt check up on your thread. on no. Very sorry for that.

your flock looks like such great fun! and really nice pics too