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What am I looking at here? Very tiny white flecks, non-moving, about the size of the commas in this text. ( , ' ) This is a "night poop" from under the roost in the coop. Fresher poops from the day showed no signs of this. I don't know who made this poop. They bed on straw right now and I...

Beautiful 7 week old boy! Friendly, mild mannered. Feather coloring hardly shows up in these photos, but he's got emerald green and sapphire shimmer! Born/hatched May 2. $20 adoption fee. Located Chicago, can transport within a reasonable distance for additional fee. Prefer NOT to ship this...

Hello! I have decided to brood my chicks with the big girls this season, and want to build a brooder "safe room" addition off my small coop. I've attached a few images of how I'd do it, and could use any suggestions for features, materials to avoid, handy hardware to add... I want to be able to...

TL;DR - I've got 20ish eggs due May 2 and 2 due April 24th and one incubator. How do I do lockdown for three days for the two eggs, while the other 20ish are still in there needing the turner going? I thought about taking out 2 rails of the turner, so they have some hatching space, or building a...

On Tuesday I set eggs for my son's class. Last night, one of them burst in the incubator. Ay ay ay. What a stink! The poor parents dropping off their kids! Haha, it was not good. After an initial wash out this morning, I gave the Incubator a good bleaching this afternoon. I didn't want to have...

Setting eggs with my son's class this week. Can't find the egg turner!!! If anyone has one for sale or to lend, I need it ASAP. Hyde Park area, can drive. Might have a lead on one in the suburbs but closer is easier! Thank you! Happy Spring, happy Easter!

I am hatching eggs with my son's class and the turner I thought I would have to use is MIA! If you are in the Chicago area and have the Hova Bator 1611 turner or similar to lend for a hatch PLEASE contact me! We set eggs Tuesday and need it before the weekend! Thank you for any leads! I'll be...

So, my 5 hens have decided the nipple waterer is taboo... I noticed the water levels haven't been going down over the last few days, but credited it to cooler weather, and the hens not needing as much water to stay cool. But today when I got home and let them out, they rushed the open waterer...

I ran out of chick starter and won't be able to purchase any more for another 10 days. I'm wondering if I could feed them a mix of the layer I give my big girls, and the 5 grain scratch I have. By "feed" I mean, allow them access too with out any chick starter present, since both were accessible...

I am so disappointed, and need to vent. I had two clutches of eggs going, one under a hen, and one in the incubator. The ones under the hen did alright. 7/10 hatched, (two weren't fertile). The incubator eggs were doing great, then Sunday(Day 18) we had a very hot day. I have a styrofoam...

Another local chicken keeper got a rooster in his batch of pullets, and is worried about neighbors making it an issue. He's said he will drop the bird off at Animal Control soon if no one wants him. (He doesn't seem interested in processing the rooster for food tho Chicago has many live poultry...

I was out feeding my girls some treats this morning when I noticed one of our pullets, Apricot, has a bum toe. I haven't noticed it before - I do pick them up and check them out almost daily. So I'm inclined to think this is something new, but I'm not perfect so I very well could have missed it...

Today when after cuddling one of my pullets (10 weeks), I found a small, round flea like insect on my arm. I assumed it came from the bird, and I crushed it. but It didn't look quite like the regular flat jumping fleas the dog gets. This one was smaller and rounder. I have been rifling thru the...

I've got 5 ten week old pullets and I just ran out of the starter feed. Question is, should I hurry up and order more starter, or can they share this layer feed at 10 weeks since they forage, even if they aren't laying yet? My flock free ranges most of the day in the yard, get lots of fresh...

I've got 5 ten week old pullets and I just ran out of the starter feed. Question is, should I hurry up and order more starter, or can they share this layer feed at 10 weeks since they forage, even if they aren't laying yet? My flock free ranges most of the day in the yard, get lots of fresh...

Hey BYC coop mind: I've been reading up on introducing chickens to a flock, and there's a lot of good info here but I have a concern since I'll be introducing 5 young ladies to our one older hen in the coop right now. She came to us as a rescue situation and is about 4 years old, we think...

Our mixed breed chicks are about 3 weeks old now, and they are big and active and outgrowing the make-shift rubbermaid "brooder" I had them in. I'm wondering if I'm doing this too early, but I've been taking them outside and letting them spend the daylight hours in the run of our tiny coop. I'm...

I've got one of our chicks who had a bum (splayed) leg splinted up with a bandaid. She was doing fine after hatch, but then I noticed her ding jazz splits and not standing, so I thought it might be splayed leg and consulted the archives for cures. Viola, bandaid! Does it look right? Have I put...

So 5 of my 7 viable eggs hatched, but there's 2 in there that haven't done much. They were moving and rocking yesterday, and today, nothing... Should I candle them with the water method? I'd hate for them to die in the shells. One is a bantam I was really looking forward to. What can I do?

We have one chicken, Henrietta, and are expecting a clutch to hatch early next week. I'm prepping for their arrival and wanted to talk about feed! Because I have been called "crunchy", and have been accused of being "Martha Stewart on steroids" or "Batman crossed with Betty Crocker" I thought...