Any chinese farmer here who can delivar me some hatching eggs of lion-headed geese?

My pet chicken is not feeling well. She has a brown substance that is causing her feathers to stick together and irritating her skin. I gave her a bath and got rid of it but now it's back. What is it?

Where do all the roosters go? A man buys roosters. Heavy, light it doesn’t matter. He has a tremendous hoard at the end. This is in a rural town. Some say they go to restaurants in the city, other say they are live feed for grey hounds?? Some of these birds are $50 a piece? How is he making money? Someone in the know, please tell me. I don’t care but I would really love to know. 🙂‍↔️

Hi can anyone give me any advice as per sexing eggs? Is it possible I think probably not

Short story we bought 5 eggs from old wisened lady farm shop owner a while back hatched all five successfully and all five were cockerels. Wife wife is convinced we're not that unlucky (I feel otherwise!!)she is also sure is she has read some where that pointy eggs are likely more male. Any egg witchcraft practitioners on here? Would love some insight The three remaining boys are getting busy and we probably don't want anymore cockerdoodles in the morning

She started her first molt IN OCTOBER and has continually had this specific spot bald since she started.

I don't know if she's pulled them out, or if the other hens are (she's at the top of the pecking order) but every time new feathers grow in they get picked out.

She FINALLY had fully almost grown them out (they were at the point where the hard shafts were starting to fall off) and I looked at her butt this morning and they were fine, but when I shut them in tonight they were all pulled out and she looked a bit bruised. What do I do about this??

I am so frustrated with her as it's winter and I'm afraid at some point they're going to stop trying to come in. None of my other chickens had this problem.

Thank you for any help or advice I am lost.

France has been vaccinating ducks against bird flu. Why isn’t the US vaccinating commercial poultry and waterfowl?

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/1/24-1140_article#:~:text=In%20October%202023%2C%20France%20launched,in%20HPAI%20transmission%20(12).

https://youtube.com/shorts/ThsI64M11qE?si=ZBI_wd0T9IgMRBiV

Hi all, I'm curious about your experiences and opinions on extending egg incubation from the standard 21 days to 24 days. Some claim that an extra 3 days can boost hatch rates by around 3% and yield higher-quality chicks. Have any of you experimented with this or seen similar results?

I’ve seen some innovative systems being developed that enable this extended period, and I’m interested in hearing your thoughts. Do you think a 24-day incubation period holds potential, or are there risks we might be overlooking?

Looking forward to your insights!

This is Marsh. Marsh is a royal palm and he’s a very sweet tempered turkey… towards people. Towards his hens, however, it’s another story.

Recently, the hens have been submitting for me. He’s very aggressive with them; it goes beyond simple mating aggression, at least for what I’m familiar with. Last year (he’s fathered several poults I don’t remember him being so aggressive.

They sit for me. I pet em’ a bit, and marsh looks on over, sniffing and burping and being weird. He then looks on them; not stepping on them as if he’s about to mount, but looks OVER them. Then he bites; he’ll go for their heads.

Normally the hen with stand up at this but sometimes they submit further.

He tried mounting Woodford Reserve (a hen) and did so backwards, tearing out some feathers.

He’s increasingly aggressive with roost space as well.

Will someone enlighten me on the ways of Toms?

Hi everyone, I am really excited to share that my app Simple Poultry Manager is released on Play Store. This is something I was working on from last 4 months.

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This has layers, some of which may not pertain to or be relevant here, so I am starting this thread here to cross post to others.

Context: 4th generation [IN] farmer (row crop, hay, and beef) on roughly 1500 acres

End goal:

• Raise pheasant (scale unknown) for egg/meat production
• Have an impact in the reintroduction of species correct pheasant (possibly other upland birds) to Indiana

Questions:

• What literature/resources could you recommend to a novice in raising pheasant?
• Are there existing release programs for populating in the Midwest?
• Does release of captive raised birds require inspection/licensing and is it legal?
• Where can I search for grants related to such a topic?

Thanks for reading!

I am putting together a plan to rotate our sheep and then meat birds (+/- 100 Rangers plus 6 Guineas) through our dormant blueberries. Each paddock will be 10,000 sq ft (1/4 acre). Based on what I know, for true production in that size area we’d need +/- 800 birds. I am thinking of only 100, mainly because this is an experiment and our walk-ins are down at the moment.

The goal is to clean up the weeds and dropped fruit. By-product of that cleanup is meat for us or for sale. I’m worried that I’ll be making a mistake with that few birds, and that they won’t make a dent in the weeds. Cross fencing smaller would be very difficult, it’d be easier for me to increase the # of birds and figure out a plan for the back end.

If you’re running meat birds outside of a tractor, how do you calculate your quantities/sq ft and in your experience would 100 birds be futile?

Does anyone have Joel’s phone number? 😆