My husband gave her the probiotics, unfortunately she passed on a few hours later. The other birds all seem fine, and haven't been having issues with laying or with the heat so far.
Thanks for the advice.
We have a cream legbar, almost a year old, that has not laid in about a month. She appeared to be molting, plus it's been very hot here in Texas, so I was not too concerned. But last night she was doing this thing where every few seconds she stretched out her neck and stuck out her tongue, as if...
I hope not, we already have an EE right now. The EE's we've had in the past were nowhere near this dark, but I know since they're mutts you never know.
I ordered 6 chicks from My Pet Chicken this year, and 2 are from the "Assorted Rare Breeds". The first one I think is either a Barnevelder (except it's chest isn't that white, more grey/tan) or maybe a Golden Laced Wyandotte which looks more like it, but is not specifically in the list.
Chick...
Thanks for the replies - I would love to keep the roosters if we thought we could keep them safe. We cannot have them at our house because of the laws so they are at a leased property right now and I cannot do anything more than I have done to secure it. The neighbors have had the same problems...
...when at this point I could just go butcher them myself and be done with this whole stupid idea. The rest of them died anyway so what is the **** point?
If someone actually in DFW wants a few nice free roosters, send me an email before Thursday, otherwise they're gone anyway. I can't keep...
We need to rehome our roosters immediately. A predator has killed over 20 of our hens over 3 separate attacks and we give up.
I need them gone by the end of the month but sooner is better so they don't get killed too.
2 crested cream legbars
1 Mille fluer leghorn
1 frizzle Cochin
2 blue...
My oldest CL rooster started crowing this week - it sounded like he was dying, I swear. My other Roos have all started with a perfect crow, but this was like a dying cat. It cracked me up.
Hopefully his girls will start laying soon now! This breed matures so slow!
You get used to it :)
I think it's funny how in DFW (and other places) so many towns are "people" names. There's Joshua, Justin, Allen, Lucas. Murphy. Aubrey. Melissa, Anna. Celina, Leonard. Savanah, Addison. Then further south there's a Kyle (which is my husband's name).
It wasn't like...
Oh my god it's amazing outside.
My birds aren't panting :)
I love it. I only wish I wasn't stuck inside working all day!! If it stays cool I might take off early to work on our next coop and run. (We got 1 built, still need to do 2 more). This is SOO much nicer than 110 degrees.
Thank you, that link is very helpful - however disappointing.
I got two trios from the same breeder, and I have an slightly older trio from another breeder. As they grow up I'll have to keep a close eye and see what happens. I had hoped to breed the two groups but it sounds like I may need to...
:( Can you guys look at my little CL female pics here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/813379/crooked-beak-on-4-5-week-old-chick
I'm not sure what to do with her.
I just noticed today that one of my Cream Legbar girls has a crooked beak. I've spent a lot of time with them so I don't see how I didn't see this before, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that happens overnight... What causes this?? Is it genetic and it's always been that way, or could...