I know it seems strange that the world's smallest chicken would be considered as a meat bird but here is my idea. I would compare them to a quail. The main difference being that seramas breed like rabbits without help of an incubator. So a flock of small delicacy birds that would be hardier in...
I have a chocolate orpington pullet that is about 5 months old. She was hopping around funny so i picked her up to examine and found that her left leg was totally limp. All joints and toes are just floppy. She offers no resistance when i pull on it and doesnt even act as if it hurts. I cant feel...
This is my very first hatch with a broody. Today is hatch date and what had been going well is quickly turning bad. We went out to check for chicks and found instead that the broody had left to get a drink and one of the other hens was eating a newly hatched chick:-(. We had no issues during...
Hi! I am from central texas and we got our first chickens in February. We started with five and now have 11 two barred rocks, two light brahmas, one ameraucana, one welsummer, one minorca, 2 blue langshans hens, and one black and one blue langshan rooster. They are all from the local farm supply...