The term “sizzle” was ones for what is now the satin breed. Sizzle is an outdated term and even though it sounds like it should be a “satin frizzle” it is not.
I feed Kalmbach flock maker 20%. I have muscovy ducks in varying ages and chickens. It has higher niacin than Purina. They free range all summer and get fruit and veggie scraps and also soldier worms.
I have my polish girl in the room that I have my baby Muscovys for now. She likes the ducks and has lived peacefully sharing the duck coop.
I have a neighbor with a bunch of chickens and I may see if she wants these 3 mean girls. I had chickens for years and never had a loss like this or mean...
Last week I had chickens from one coop all get sick. It came on fast and I lost 5 of 8 in 3 days. I believe it was a new bag of feed that only they got, they had inflated crops and threw up smelly yellow fluid when I massaged their crops. I treated them with miconazole and managed to save the...
Anyone have any thought as to what is going on with my chickens?
I have 7 hens and a rooster that share a coop. The freerange on 4+ acres during the day. All were bought as babies in spring. (3 are olive eggers, 5 are sapphire gems)
Saturday morning one hen was dead in the nest box, no visible...
I was given 2 geese yesterday that came from some pretty bad conditions. They had said they were African geese... But I'm thinking one is African ( fatter with the neck pouch thing) and one is Chinese. Both are scared to death and have rubbed their head knots raw. They lived I. Tiny pens full...
He is still the same... he has been staying in the house during the evening/night till we get their bigger building made. There isn't much that can be done. His foot is turned and his leg sticks out odd to make up for it. I think he is just getting too big ... took him out today and let him hang...
over the summer I bought 3 RP hatchlings... when I got home I realized one had a bad foot, like a club foot the foot turns in and toes are curled. Unfortunately I didn't research it and because he got around fine I didn't splint it or anything. All summer as he grew he seemed fine his leg turns...