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Anyone interested in taking in a lone male African goose? We've had a mink rampage through the flock and he is literally the lone survivor. He's pretty depressed right now, and has some defensive wounds on his wings - the last bird taken was his duck best friend, and it looks like our goose...

My EE girl went through a molt in August, at about 9 months old - along with her BSL brood sister who is exactly the same age. Both stopped laying for about a month, then picked up again and have been pretty consistent since.

Part of the reason I started my own flock was to cut back on the amount of incidental drugs in my food. So on one hand, this makes me happy. On the other hand, yeah. So much for treating diseases without breaking the bank on vet bills.

Anybody run across this yet? Apparently the FDA are going to start phasing veterinary antibiotics into prescription-required. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1037243/over-the-counter-medications-otc-impacted-by-new-fda-prescription-requirements-initiative

Hello again, everyone! How's things?

Any advice on laying age? I have two pullets in my flock that are just over 26 weeks, and I'm starting to worry if I'll ever see any eggs from them!

Hello and :welcome :)

If you specifically want a barn cat, look into local cat rescues. Many of them will give you a feral, fixed cat for FREE, because it is already wild and can't be adopted out as a pet, but can't stay at the dumpster where it grew up.

They both definitely had a Brahma daddy, but he had a good mix of ladies so no telling which mother they came from.

Not the best quality, but.

Both chicks are brahma or brahma mix (bird #2 especially) and somewhere 10-11 weeks old. Mystery bird #1 Mystery bird #2

Here are a few pics I took during construction. As you may see from the base, the pallets I got did not have slats on the side, but 9 big blocks of particle board holding on 3 runners on the bottom. For the walls, I pulled the runners and blocks off so I just had the top part, then nailed boards...

All birds are dinosaurs (even chickens). http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html Dinosaurs lay eggs. Therefore, there ARE no chickens, only dinosaur eggs, and this is a pointless argument.

I'm just wrapping up a pallet coop build. I don't have experience. The last time I made something with wood was a CD rack in high school 15 years ago. I didn't even have tools when I started. I never had a plan and anything I thought up as I worked never came out the way I imagined. I found...

It is. :D I did buy new material for the legs and roof, but the floor and walls are all recycled.