Recent content by Sumatra503

I've been away from this for a bit, but have now begun making them again. I make these and chicken diapers.

I've done a lot with harness training and if the harness is properly fitted they do fine. If it's too tight that's when they start to flop or if it is a harness that hits the crop or interferes with their balance. I spent a while finding a design I liked and that my birds were fine with. Usually...

I have been making and selling chicken harnesses for like six years now and have sold them all over the world. It's pretty common to leash train them and they do quite well. Mine are $15 plus shipping, which is the general price I've seen around lately. I remember being among the first, or at...

The edges aren't sharp once they are trimmed, at least not sharp enough to cut a hen's back and are worn back to a round position pretty quickly as the rooster scratched. They can, however be filed down if you are concerned.

I am currently working on a breeding project for next year that will involve frizzles of various types(mostly Serama Cross) and a few EE/NN bantams. My hope is to produce bantams that are frizzled and lay green eggs. I am also working with Booted Seramas and a couple of other frizzle projects...

I was wondering what you guys thought about butchering and eating a chicken that is sick and openly showing symptoms at the time of butcher. I have a girl who has asked what to do with her chickens that are displaying what we believe to be coccidiosis symptoms and some people are telling her...

8 new babies!!! Henrietta Turkey went broody and since I don't have a tom I put 10 bantam eggs underneath her from Amanda and Fuzz Butt. She sat on them for the full 21 days and hatched out 8 tiny fuzzies. Since I don't have a pen that is safe for a Turkey hen and bantam chicks to be raised in...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/trimming-your-chickens-nails-beaks-spurs-tutorial Not quite finished, but here is my first article. Iit is about 1/3 of the way finished and it had like 2,000 words when I last checked, so hopefully it is all helpful stuff...