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thanks to all who offered such kind words!! -m

Hi, Motherearth here. We are new to chickens and built our coop late last summer into the fall. I submitted pics and descriptions of our coop build in late January. I had hoped to get it on the main coop page under large coops. That's where I got most of my inspiration and so many great ideas. I...

Well she's gone. Boy was that hard. Sweet girl. So sad. I guess I have to take black copper marans off my list. :(

So at five days I took her to the vet for a little gaping, head shaking, and loss of balance. He said she seemed emaciated. He prescribed an antibiotic called Septra SMZ TMP. She was doing OK, though not thriving the way the other 3 are. Then today she started a constant gaping accompanied by...

We changed from pine shavings to sand today on the advice of our vet. One of our 5 day old chicks was not doing so great. HEAVY breathing, gaping, losing balance. I wanted to nip it in the bud so I went for antibiotics. It turns out my vet is very anti-shavings (pine included) for all animals...

I'm a novice too and still learning. We are about to get our second batch of chicks in a couple weeks. We had a great experience the first time around. We bought a brooder kit from my pet chicken.com. $69 I think. You could buy the components for less I imagine, but it's really easy and...