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Ok, here's a question- just received my day old babies (yay!) and was planning to travel to PA for long weekend July 4th. I was going to have M-i-L watch them at her house, but would it be do-able to bring them along instead, in their brooder? (So they'd be sure to get the attention they...

So I've finally (again) broken 2 of my silkies of their broody behavior. I let them out to freerange with the others today, and noticed one of them just standing there, not pecking, not eating. I managed to catch her and gave her a quick once-over. No apparent injury, crop appears to be...

4 of my feathered friends were closed out of the coop last night, as the auto door closed early because of overcast skies. I went out to check on them @ 10pm, and 3 were huddled on the ramp, 1 was on a stump roost. (the run is all enclosed, so they were safe, at least) They looked very scared...

I noticed my 16 week old Speckled Sussex, Bella, pacing and going in and out of the coop this afternoon. I put a dishpan with a couple of fake eggs and some hay in the coop - sure enough, she settled down into the pan, pushed the 2 "eggs" underneath herself, and was throwing hay onto her back...

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I am just about through our 25# bag of medicated chick starter (6 standards, 3 silkies - ~ 4 wks old) Can I give them the regular(ie non-medicated) feed now? Was the medicated for the first month good enough to protect them when they most needed it...? Thanks for your help!

On one of my week and a half old chicks, I noticed what seemed to be a "bulgey" right breast - kind of soft/squishy to touch. Deflated this afternoon. My Italian mother-in-law called it the stomach - is this the crop? I checked on the anatomy pic and didn't see it identified anywhere...

We received our peeps this monday 4/12 - How much should we be handling them to accustom them to us - we are aiming for family friendly birds. I check them a few times a day for pasty butt, etc, but they are seeming more skittish than ever, at @ 3 days old. Should we handle them more at this...

One of my silkies had pasty butt this am when I checked on them - I think I got all the poop off - I had to actually soak her little butt in some warm water- She has passed a tiny bit of white poop(just poked out), but it still looks like she's straining to poop. The vent looks cleaned off, but...

My MPC order just arrived! 6 standards and 3 silkies - all cheeping and active and ADORABLE!! I will post some pics a little later... Yay! ETA to fix initials

I got an awesome homemade guinea pig cage I'm going to use for a brooder - I also got along with it quite a bit of guinea pig( food )pellets. Should I just pass these along to a guinea pig owner, or is this something the chickens (when they get a little older) can eat? (Just found a great chart...

this seems simpler to install than the Foy's door - any feedback on this? http://www.chickencoopdoor.com/ Thanks for the input!! ETA Link - oops!

I'm going to start building the L'Oeuf Shak this weekend (yay!) I cut down some large gnarly rhodendrons to make room for the coop and run. I left a good-sized stump in the ground so they have a natural roost/jungle gym in the run area. There are also a lot of small rhododendron plants...

I am always the first to think reduce, reuse, recycle, but just received some new information recently... I was phoned by an environmental group re contaminated pallets - a little quick google showed up this information, which I never even thought about...This is about burning pallets, but this...

After reading some posts here I'm not sure I made the right choice... I opted to not vaccinate the chicks I ordered that are due to be shipped April 12. I'm not a big vaccine proponent for us humans (eg flu, H1N1), so I figured go organically, and not vaccinate the tiny chicks against Mareks...

I will be constructing a coop this spring for a new flock-to-be. I am trying to re-purpose as much materiel as possible - so a quick question. Can wallboard be used as the inner walls of a coop? Painted, of course. This would be a framed coop with 3/4 - 1/2" plywood outer walls, with...

Greetings all! I am new to BYC, and not even a fledgling chicken owner yet! I will be getting some chicks in the spring - thinking about a Silver Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, an Easter Egger, Jersey Giant, and a Barred Rock or Dominique. And a couple of little Silkies for my daughter...