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Hi all! So we just got back from vacation, and discovered to our utter surprise (and delight), that our guinea hen has hatched some keets! Looks like they hatched in the last 48hrs. Unfortunately/fortunately, mama guinea had been AWOL from the coop under the care of our chicken sitter, so the...

Hi there! I'm at my wits' end on how to get one of my guineas back into our barn. He escaped the barn in the dark three days ago, when my husband was doing last-rounds before bed, and flew into a small pine grove. Well he won't come down, and it's been between -20 and -35 Celsius here for the...

Hi everyone, last year we sustained two devastating dog attacks. So this year we are looking at fencing our yard to protect our roughly 100 chicken during summer. The brand locally available is redbrand (http://www.redbrand.com) and I'm confused about which is best. Our primary purpose is to...

Hi everyone, I need help with our coop bedding. We are beginning our third year of chicken keeping and have definitely had ups and downs including an ILT outbreak in December. As a result, we will be depopulating this year and doing all in all out. We will then be receiving 40new layers. Yes we...

Hi everyone, my flock suffered 10% mortality from an ILT outbreak in March. The outbreak was reported and the farm locked down, with no new cases since. Fast forward to March, all is good, flock is producing well, even though a rooster was dispatched because he was sick recently. With spring...

Hi all, We have a pair of American Buffs, and the gander has been pretty aggressive with the female - I'm assuming during mating, going by our experience with chickens. We got them in spring as goslings, and it's just those two. They spent most of the summer in a fenced yard with our flock of...

We are having a potentially serious issue and need urgent guidance. We have 18 grown chickens and added 15 Rhode Island reds in September. They grew fine with no losses and were healthy.They live in a barn, and have not been going outside for the last month due to predator attacks and the onset...

Hi everyone, over the last month my hens have been through some pretty traumatic stuff: first, there were too many roosters who were abusing them, their coop was not properly cleaned and there may have been some sick chicken, and then to cap it all off a very aggressive dog strolled onto our...

Hi all! Novice question! I'd like to let my Dominique hen sit a clutch and raise chicks before the summer is out, but am not sure how to go about it. We've raised several batches of different breeds of heritage chicks ourselves, but now I'd like to start my project of maintaining a flock of...

Hello! My babies chickies started laying in the last week, whilst we were on vacation, and now we have a bit of a mystery on our hands! We had the daughter of our farmer-neighbor look after the birds for us, and when we got back, we found some very tiny pullet eggs along with the larger eggs...

Hi there, We just converted part of our old barn into a coop, YAY! And as soon as the ground isn't frozen solid (Ontario! :), we had (obviously, I thought...) planned on building an outside run for the girls. Well my hubby was just speaking to the lady who runs a local feed store, and she...

Hoping to get some answers from the more experienced folks on here... Just got our first batch of chicks, and they all seem to be doing pretty well. We had 14, but one died this evening — we put the poor little thing out of its misery. The chicks are currently 6-8 days old. So when we got...

Well, my much-anticipated chicks are finally here :D Got them a couple of days ago, but despite my years of reading and prepping for this moment, it's been a steep learning curve so far — panicking on the drive home (OMG, are they warm enough!?), panicking when I put them in the brooder (OMG...

Got my first batch of chicks yesterday, and they're doing great — at least, they seem to be, to this first-time chick-mom! There's one who needed some TLC though, with pasty-butt and a bent toe. I washed and dried his butt, but he was unable to stand or balance, poor little guy (or gal!). I...

Well, I've finally reached a decision about which breeds I'll be starting my first flock with.... but in the process, I've fretted, stayed up late, lost sleep, and been subject to the gentle ridicule of my lovely husband! In the end, I had to construct a table with all the characteristics I...

Hi everyone, I've been lurking on the BYC for a couple of years. Looking stuff up and coveting different chickens! I love the site and have found so much information here! I'm finally joining since my family will be getting our first chickens this year! It's the dream of a lifetime for my...