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I have a friend who just started to raise meat birds and wants to find out how to find people to process meat birds for her. I only raise layers, so i am not sure where to look. We are in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Fass

I have a hen that is sick with an upper respiratory infection. I am treating her with duramycin. I brought her in the house and put her in a dog kennel, but it is a terrible mess. Can I keep her in my coop that I raise spring chicks in? It is just storage right now and won't have any chicks...

We lost a chicken for the first time this week from a fox attack. :hit A neighbor saw it and intervened. So, only one chicken died. My husband cut out the breast meat that wasn't bitten into. He wants to eat it. My thoughts are YUCK. And it really seems unsafe (rabies, diseases, etc). What...

My husband said my EE was acting a little off today. Just pulled her of the roost to see this white stuff at her vent. It looks like cottage cheese and is a little bit funky smelling. What is this? I am trying to upload a photo, but having issues with my computer. Will post as soon add I can...

This is one of my 10-week-old Favaucanas. Just by looking at it, any idea if this is this a boy or a girl? This one tends to be fighting with the boys quite a bit and is seen picking on the girls, but I just can't figure this one out. It is hard to tell in this picture, but its comb is a...

We have 10-week-old Favaucana chicks. We know that some of them are roos. I caught this picture last night when I let the chicks out after the big girls went in. These 2 hunched down and ruffled their hackles and then both jumped in the air "attacking" with their feet. Is this typical roo...

I have 18 chicks right now and my first roo started to crow this morning. They are almost 8 weeks old and I want to know when the best time to rehome them? I haven't nailed down which one it is, but I believe it is my Favaucana roo. We have started to let all the chicks outside in the big...

We have 18 chicks that are 6 weeks old. On Tuesday morning, I think I found a small bit of blood in a poo I found on the floor of the coop. It was a little hard to see and was mixed in with the litter. I didn't want to chance anything, so I started Corid right away and will treat for 5 days...

I have 18 six-week-old chicks. This morning when I went into the coop, I think I saw a small poop that looked like it had blood in it. It was kind of mixed in with the shavings, so it was hard to tell 100%, but don't know what else it would have been. They all seem okay to me, but I just...

We have a separate "brooder" coop (see picture) for our 18 chicks. They are 6 weeks old now and for the first time, we let them outside under their coop. Our brooder coop is designed just like the "Witchita Coop" except for the chicks, the ramp to the sand run area below the coop is through...

I have 6 Favaucana chicks that are 3 weeks old today. They are growing really fast compared to my other chicks. They have been starting to play fight (or just fighting). Some of the ones that I think are girls are jumping up and fighting with each other. They have these red spots on their...

For the past couple of days, one of my EE's has been staying on the roost longer than normal in the morning. She does come down when I make it out to the coop in the morning for feeding. But she doesn't seem as perky as normal, but not lethargic by any means. This is not normal behavior for her...

I am hoping all of you chick-raising experts can tell me if my new set up will be good for my new chicks (my first time, can't you tell ). I am getting 15 chicks the first week in April. I live in southern Wisconsin and plan to make my brooder outside. It will be attached to my current run...

Currently, we have electricity running to our coop in the form of an extension cord and a power strip. During the winter, I have only 2 items that are plugged in....fish tank heater or heated dog bowl for the water and supplemental light. I have a clamp-on light and a low-wattage light bulb...

I have 2 chickens that are molting pretty bad right now. One of the girls is starting to get her feathers back, but it is pretty thin right now. The other one has a huge, completely bare patch on her butt/vent area (about 4-5 inch patch) and is bare under both wings. If it were just her wings...

My hen, Elvis, laid a soft shelled/papery egg on the roost yesterday and tonight when my husband went to the coop, she was in the nesting box and had laid an egg in the nest box. It was an egg yolk and white completely out of the shell (yolk not broken) and the shell was papery and rolled up...

I wanted to get some opinions from folks who have used the EcoGlow Chick Brooder (20 and 50). I plan to raise between 5 and 10 chicks on any given spring. I wasn't sure how long I should be using the EcoGlow and which size EcoGlow I should use. I plan to get chicks in late March/early April...

I started raising chickens a little over a year ago. I always thought that I would get chickens of all the same approximate ages and then in 2-3 years when egg production dropped off, I would cull the flock and start with new birds. But I think my mind might be changing? I keep chickens...

I was looking over the McMurray website and see that they sell started pullets about 15-22 weeks. Has anyone ever purchased them from McMurray and what was your experience? Also curious on shipping costs and how they ship them. Didn't realize places shipped pullets. Wendy

I have 2 Ameracauna's that I picked up in early July from a breeder. They were just a over 1 year old at that time. The breeder that I got them from had them on 24 hours of light a day to keep his girls laying. He had them for breeding and egg sales. Of course when I got them, I did not add...