I'm trying to develop a BBS line of birds. What i keep running into is mahogany on the wing bow of the roosters. One splash hen has never produced it out of about a dozen sons raised to maturity, but the other two have. The rooster I used shows zero red at all anywhere on his body. The hens...
I want a few cream/tinted egg layers but I'd prefer to hatch my own. We're already hatching with our GQF, so figure why not? I was thinking about Austra Whites, but I don't have an Australorp Roo. What I do have is a great minded white leghorn roo and a phenomenal laying Australorp hen. She...
I want to tap into some Splash breeding and found Hoover's has the sapphire splash. I want to think they're going to be homozygous blue versions of the Sapphire Gem, and the last SG roo I got in a shipment turned out to be barred. For what I have in mind, I'd prefer the roo be splash over some...
I’ve been running frequent fecals on my adolescent birds to keep track of the coccidia wars.
Today I did a fecal on a young pullet, found just a few oocysts, but then happened across this guy.
I’ve seen mites in dog fecals back in the day when I worked at the vet’s office, but I’ve probably...