Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I keep meaning to put an introduction, but I’ve been too engrossed reading many of the posts. We ( husband, 3 horses, 4 dogs, 2 cats and 4 chickens, soon to be more ) live on a small hobby farm north of Kingston. We’ve been here almost 20 years. We kept chickens (meat and layers) geese, and turkeys ...

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Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:29 pm

I have an overo mare that carries....she wont ever be bred....beautiful blue eyes....almost blind in one. Sigh.

I have a lovely black overo gelding - he’s 18 and has been retired since he was 5 - ringbone...horses *sigh*

not that i have heard of....lethal white is a mammalian gene, linked to blue eyes in animals like horses etc for those that haven't heard of it. lethal white results in a blind ended cecum (GI tract) so the animals are born normally and then starve to death over the first few days of life because t...

Question Jim about your hoop pens - which I love - that is a great solution for me for the three seasons, I would bring the chickens into the barn coops in winter - is that untreated pine you are using for the base? Would pressure treated be an option? Or is that not a good mix with birds? I'm just ...