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A Ukrainian woman has trained her flock how to respond to the air raid sirens

The pop door didn't close last night and someone got a hen. Some Pennsylvania predator dragged the large dead bird up onto the roof of the coop, nibbled a bit of belly, and then took off leaving the remaining birds alive and well. Who does that? I'm right in town but only a mile from...

Yesterday I had my first OMG reaction to a suddenly ragged-looking bird. Thinking "disease" I posted in that forum and several of you kindly taught me about hard molting. That thread is here. The flock is six ISA browns, all 18 months, no rooster..,... in central Pennsylvania where the days...

One bird is suddenly losing feathers and may be underweight, but seems "normal" otherwise. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Uniform flock of six 18-month old ISA Brown; The sick bird seems underweight, but I think its...

I've tried various ways to serve eggshells to my girls. When I bake something else, I will throw in whatever shells have accumulated at 400 for 10 min. After they cool I have a beat up rectangular cake pan..... on top of that a beat up cookie cooling rack with 1/2 mesh.... on top of that 1/4"...

Maybe this is old news but you can upcycle trashed water jugs into quality barrel funnels. My local bottled water company has to pay the landfill to get rid of worn out bubbler jugs. They gave me a bunch for free. These things are polycarbonate and in my area are not recyclable. Cutting...

Are these mechanical style timers reliable in winter? I have been doing lights/doors manually and have as sudden trip coming up without time to experiment, so if you have tried these things in winter, please share! How did it go?

To help make a low power low temp non freezing water system I may stick an aquarium heater in a horizontal run of PVC with horizontal water nipples. I've decided to use a rectangular cooler for a tank so the pipe with the nipples can make 90 deg bend and be tucked right up against the side of...

MY QUESTION... I want to tap a 2" pvc pipe through the curved wall of an Igloo 5 gallon jug. Do you have any tips on fittings or installation to get a good seal, since the wall of these coolers is curved? Thanks! Details.... I'm choosing a design for a reliable water system at 0 degrees F...

I'm choosing between winter watering systems reliable to zero F, which won't happen often but often enough. I happen to have an unused 200 watt bird bath water heater (API Model WPU300). It has a built in 40F shut off themostat. QUESTION.... Is 200 watt too much for a plastic...

There are so many wonderful build threads, but there is a drawback. Most of them show what people did when its all brand new. I would really enjoy reading articles that walk us ... in detail.... through builds at 5 years and 10 years of use. Show us what worked out, what didn't, what you decided...

Does your set up have any HC or feed lot panels in contact with treated lumber? How is it holding up? Any corrosion? The treated lumber fine print all says to be sure to use stainless steel or hot dip galvanized fasteners, and sure, the HC comes galvanized but time and elements will beat on...

Backyard cardio stress test........ when you're building your free-ranging chickens coop, and they helpfully decide to pull the "EMERGENCY BLOW" valve on your nearby air compressor.

If you use poop boards, do you care if your girls walk on them? Do they track poo elsewhere? Have any good tricks for keeping them from doing that? I'm exploring options for a challenging and confining location. Flock of 12 (half ISA brown, half Plymouth Rock). Current idea is 6x8...

Can you make any suggestions to improve on this? ================================= DESIGN GOAL .... 1st design attempt... small urban yard....variable climate...central Pennsylvania.... goal is 10-12 hens. The coop will be about 5x7 inside though this isn't locked in yet. I decided on...

I think the birds may have been pooping in the coffee bean jar again today. Anyway.... relative noob here. Designing my first coop. Here is a nerd question.... Assume a coop with a square floor plan has X chickens, where X is the max number that can be in this coop and still be happy...

I would love a feature where a user could submit a single picture of their coop and the whole album could play as a slide show. See one you like, pause, back up, and click to go to any tagged thread that is related. Sure there are great coop threads. But trudging through them manually is...

I plan to build a short walled run to save on materials and space. But I also want to be able to walk in, upright, if I need to mess with anything. So I had the idea of building the covered roof with a hinged side, so it can swing up out of the way. With all the great Chicken MacGyvers on...

I confess I have recently committed treason against BYC by doing research at another site. In this blog post https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/chicken-water-nipples/ the author mentions screw in horizontal nipples that can be opened for cleaning. After a small bit of looking I can not...

What a great site! Seems like there are a gazillion threads about poop boards, and I've skimmed through a bunch. Only saw a couple mentions of using aluminum flashing but they didn't answer my question.... does chicken poop interact with the aluminum, causing corrosion or other problems? And...