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I feel really silly asking this, I'm not a newbie, but I've never used one of the traditional galvanized chicken waterers, and I'm taking care of a friend's chickens and that's what she uses. It's a very large one, and it appears to be sitting on maybe a heated base. It has a handle on the...

Can scaly leg mites affect only a few chickens and not the others? I have 4 chickens right now. Two are 4 years old, two are only 1 1/2 years old. The two older hens are showing signs of scaly leg mites but the younger ones look fine. Is this possible? Would I treat all four, even though...

I've posted about this particular hen a few times already, the last time I posted worms were suggested and it made sense to me, so I wormed my whole flock and still the poor girl is not well. I'll answer all these questions and I'd love to hear some suggestions by some of our very knowledgeable...

I just got done de-worming my chickens for the first time ever. I'm very happy I've done it as I've lost 2 in the past year, and one appeared to be headed in the same direction. I'm about 99% sure worms were the problem, however, I'd like to not have to do that twice a year, or even once a year...

I bought Ivermectin Pour-on for cattle. This is the right stuff, correct? Can someone please let me know how to do this. Is four drops on the nape of the neck right? How will I see that four drops have hit their skin? This isn't something I can just add to their water is it? I need to...

I'm going to treat my "flock" (if you can call it that with 4 chickens) with Wazine today. It will be my first time worming. I have a girl I'm pretty sure is infested. I know you're supposed to do a follow-up when using Wazine. Can someone tell me when that follow-up needs to happen, and...

Hi everyone. I haven't been here in quite a while. Had a baby in July and well, you know how that goes! Anyway, on the chicken front, things are quite awful. For three years I raised chickens and never had even the slightest illness. Then, starting last Spring, we had our first chicken...

So now that I'm incredibly pregnant and unable to deal with much of anything, I've experienced my first chicken loss due most likely to internal laying a few weeks ago, and last night I was awaken by the sound of some kind of bird being tortured to death. When I went out to look I saw a fox...

After three years of raising chickens I experienced my first loss this past weekend. I can't believe how bad it hurts. Goldie, our Golden Comet, and queen of the flock, died Saturday evening and we buried her behind the garden. I'm having such a hard time dealing with this. Everything...

I have a hen who has been rapidly "going downhill" in the past couple of weeks. I really can't figure out what is wrong with her (I posted about her issues last night). What I'm wondering is, is it safe to still be using her eggs, or should I be discarding them? I'm not sure if there are any...

I have a three year old Golden Comet who has not been herself the last 3 weeks or so. She seems to be getting progressively worse. Originally I was noticing this off and on but now it's constant and I'm very worried about her. She isn't exhibiting any obvious symptom of any sort, except that...

Friday is the big day I've been waiting for for months, when I can finally integrate my older flock of 3 hens, with the younger flock of 3. For the past 2 weeks I've been slowly weaning the young ones off grower feed and onto layer pellets. By Friday they should be ready for straight layer...

I have 2 chickens that molted for the first time last year, in the dead of winter. Almost lost one of them as it happened during the "worst cold snap of the season" here in Vermont. Why are these two molting at such an odd time? (I think it was January - February.) Is there any way to sort of...

I have a hen that has been laying eggs with hairline cracks in them. Yesterday I found her egg was in the box and it was actually cracked open, almost perfectly, all the way around. Her shells have always been on the thin side compared to the others. I'm very worried that she may become egg...

Does anyone have any tips on sexing Delawares, Speckled Sussex, or Black Australorps? I know some breeds have more obvious clues like coloration that show up at an early age and I'm hoping these breeds might. A friend and I are expecting our box of chicks from Sandhill today and I'm hoping it...

I know we have a few vets and vet techs on the site so I'm hoping someone can help me with this. Yesterday I brought my dog to the vet to have his teeth scaled and they did a blood test prior to using anesthesia and they discovered that he had very low potassium. My vet wants to test him again...

Alright, I know that microwave canning is considered unsafe here in the US, but I ran into this Australian article about this woman and her microwave canning method/book and thought it was worth posting. I can't help but wonder why it's safe for Australians but not Americans! Please note that...

Does anyone have a babka recipe they’d be willing to share? I’d love to make one to surprise my family with this weekend. I found many recipes online but I’d prefer to work with a BYC tested and approved recipe since I don’t have time to experiment. Cinnamon, chocolate, lemon, raisin, dried...

So, DH and I are considering getting a cat and I just can’t seem to make up my mind. We live just down the road from a shelter with over 100 cats available right now. We can’t pass the place without pondering the possibility of adding a cat to the household. The problem is that we’ve never...

My BR went through a very hard molt about a month and a half ago. She has now by all appearances fully recovered except that she still has not gone back to laying. She did actually lay 2 days in a row about 3 weeks ago, but nothing since. My other 2 birds went though their molt and got right...