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Hi , Few days ago I went to buy some eggs from a local farmer here in the area , he has ducks , chickens goose and whatever kind of birds all together and the eggs were being said " not fertile " because the rooster was too small and he wouldn't make any fertile eggs , now I buy my eggs there...

Hi BYC ! Would you be so kind to fill in some answers to my questions please ? about what ? about mealworms ! why ? because it is very likely you are going to add some change to those that breed the buggers themselfs or buy them somewhere if they are alive and because you might find our...

Layinghens for sale , Q : how old are the hens ? A : their ages are between 7 months and close to a year Q : are they vaccinated ? A : yes they are and are well taken care of Q : are they bald ? A : we have a few that still have to regrow feathers but most of them look just like any...

I assume we all give our chickens layersfeed on a daily basis , especially to layinghens , now is it not the case that laying hybrides do not eat as much as a heritagebreed ? we have one orpington in the middle of all the production reds and I see zero difference in eating more or less but the...

Ok here we go again and again , I am tired of what I have decided to do but I need to stay fair and it has become difficult to distinguish what is fair and what is not . The case : a hen that has been to the vet mutiple times because of the same old : constantly eggbound , each egg ( or almost...

I just noticed that it is always one and the same hen that lays weird eggs and is constantly eggbound , this is totally abnormal and especially given the facts here : 1. always acces to water and good quality feed 2. all other birds just lay their eggs 3. she does not get bullied or etc , and...

hi , I builded a frame in just palet wood but a strong frame as in really doubled poles next to eachother and each bar gets support by two instead of none or one but here is my issue as it comes to the roof : we got a free plate that gets used a lot in the area for building a roof , it is a...

ok first of all , do plse not point the finger at me , this is a huge mistake I have made and I know it all too well But we are just all human beings and we make mistakes , only up to us to learn from , this mistake however could not be prevented as it was something I was unaware of . The second...

I honestly Never , NEVER EVER had to clip a chickens ' toenails so in the arrival from the new chickens I was kinda stunned today because these ex battery girls have first been living already in a yard and are pretty well taken care of , now I was kinda shocked to see that one of these has a...

Hi everyone , My chickens already at day 1 did not lay in their nestingboxes , so I was looking at some footage of how they used to live in the cages and where their nestingareas where but I did found this : NOTHING , so where did they lay their eggs then ??? how are those nestingboxes build (...

Hi I was wondering what chickens eat the most of vegetables and fruits you give them and what you give them according the changes of weather so what is like your top 10 during summertime/spring and what in wintertime and before ? I feed a lot of variety , depending on harvest and I jump like...

Hi all , Today after a horrifying discovery a short while ago now I had not one single chicken anymore ... So therefor I finally decided to buy either chicks or fully grown chickens . I noticed an ad that sounded interesting but one little detail was left out ... I responded to the...

I'm having 1 of the young chickens that is going to lay one of these days that started today with sounds that remind me more to '' growling '' as if she indeed has an egg and is not happy about yet I remember the sound my chickens had in their breathing too when they were ill .. and another one...

wanted : The killer that bit the head of from my chicken and left it there with its guts out yet not messy ? Hi all , as mentioned in my describing above , I am trying to find out what we are looking for because after reading things about how predators leave the scene this is not a match with...

Hi , I went to pick up my new hen that I have seen when she was about a few months old , now today went to pick her up and she straight away began to scream as if I was gonna kill the B*** , and yes she is MEAN , my order : LIGHT SUSSEX HEN , her behavior ? far from a sussex ! her outlook ...

Hello again to all of you , I just noticed as I was gardening a pile of eggs with very carefully placed feathers in between the eggs plus a lot of leaves and pineshavings . So I dot even know which hens are responsible for this but I already noticed a major increase of eggs which is not that...

Hi BYC ! Ok , Usually I am not really into telling a little bit about what is " private " BUT isn't there enough private , each door closed , sealed from anyone else ? yes ! So here I am introducing us ... WHO ? My daughter a little smarta§§ but a sunshine always smiley trough life and...

Hi , First of all I can not resist complementing BYC for it's very large effords to make this forum a place for every chickenowner , or those who are simply interested in it or are planning it . A lot of people have already said " but it is so easy to keep chickens ! " , well I agree but also...

Hi everyone , I was now already for a long time thinking about the noises chickens make after they have laid their egg ... Also why is there such a difference in younger hens and older ones ? I have experienced now that the younger the hen is , the higher her volume sort of speak , I have...

Hi all , yes AGAIN a post about my Old English gamefowls that were used to have a life happily free ranged in their own small forest and recently ( +- week and half ago , lost track , really ) moved into my backyard . No this is not going well at all , and to be fair here , I am so sorry for...