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It happened to me today. This morning in one of my chick brooders I found a sickly chick. Lethargic and emaciated in spite of having plenty of food. I cull for any sign of sickness, so I rung its neck, nearly pulling its head off in the process. I threw it out in the bushes for my dogs to eat...

Looks like Marek’s to me. What say you?

… for every one you see, there’s a bunch you don’t. You see and kill one at the time, only for more to pop up. But not because new ones are moving in, but because the infestation was already there and hidden. Here’s what I got: a half acre electric paddock down in a heavily wooded part of my...

I’m pulling an all nighter at the office. I am theoretically on vacation, but the reality of my job is there’s a constant flow of paperwork that I have to timely address. I’ll be out until Wednesday. I can sleep in tomorrow, but I’m keeping my daughter until school starts later in the week. So...

I couldn't figure out which forum would be most appropriate. I settled on Flock Management, as it may make a difference how you consider dealing with extremes in temperature. I recently got a thermal rifle scope after a trespasser invaded my farm at night several weekends ago. No harm came of...

I’m attempting to create a self-sustaining flock of turkeys in the manner I have already created with my chickens. I am allowing a mixed heritage-breed hen to sit on a clutch of 11 eggs. The hen is 2 years old. I let her set last year and she lost her clutch the night they hatched between heavy...

Gallus karabachensis is listed in literature as the extinct “giant junglefowl,” not to be confused with the theoretical Gallus giganteus. I cannot find any fossil pictures or descriptions online except for the name being on lists of extinct birds in the genus Gallus. Anyone know anything about it?

I have two Malay pullets of laying age under consideration that would be coming from a much warmer part of Florida. They likely haven’t experienced anything colder than the high 30s. My farm in far north Florida will likely experience many more freezes, some into the 20s, before the winter is...

Each pic represents a separate snake or set of snakes I’ve caught and killed marauding bitties and eggs. I’ve caught and killed far more in the act than I’ve documented. So far about 24 white oak snakes and 5 cottonmouths over the past 3 years. No other species mess with the chickens except a...

Per request of @U_Stormcrow, here is an easy method I learned to cultivate black soldier fly larvae (maggots?, I notice that most sources don’t call the BSF larvae maggots but are they not? I’m going to call them maggots until someone shows me otherwise why they aren’t). I learned this when I...

Any idea what kind of guineas these are? They’re shown at the beginning of this video. They’re more turkey-like than any guinea I’ve seen before.

Had anyone who had raised Liege experienced them going broody? Seems like I read previoisly they generally don’t. I’d like to confirm or deny from someone who knows from experience. Mine have not been broody, but I don’t have any older than 2.

This thread will be an offshoot of my American Game Bantam thread. As I line breed my American Game Bantams, I’m getting more and more birds that are coming out Dutch and Serama-sized but without the munchkin traits of a Serama or the short legs of a Dutch. They are retaining their athletic...

... for genetic color calculator purposes?

The coop my layers roost in sits on a hill underneath one of the main power poles. It has its own street light that has been out for a couple of years. It’s the kind of standard street light that has a yellow or brownish hue. I am thinking of getting the power company to fix it. Has anyone found...

I'm creating this thread as a journal for a breeding project I've been planning for some time. I would like to take my small junglefowl hybrids that I've been raising for the last year and a half and increase their size and attitude substantially. They've already proven themselves to be great...

I don't think this video is particularly graphic, except that it will show some head-shots and some flopping. So viewer discretion is advised but probably not necessary for someone that otherwise does their own chicken harvesting. It doesn't show any blood. The only aspect that's not really...

... for one of them. I noticed the snake wouldn't move a muscle. Impression I had was it had a degree of fear of the chickens. Of course had it been bigger the little ones could have been its dinner:

Here’s my situation. I have a free range flock of around 110 head of adult and juvenile birds. Mostly red jungle fowl hybrids, but also mixed layers and guineafowl. My birds free range from dawn to dusk. 40 acres, mostly blueberry fields but also lots of woods. Surrounded by thousands of acres...

Today on a out of state trip I stopped by an Agg Supply. We don’t have those stores in my part of Florida so I checked them out and bought 2 bags of Southern States Sporting Bird Starter. Basically high protein for my guinea keets. When pouring the first bag into my feed bin I noticed it had a...