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Well, I've been letting the manbeast take care of the chickens for the last week or so while I work more. It seemed like a good arrangement, until I checked one of the nesting boxes and found my top hatter broody on a weeks worth of eggs! Apparently since he found eggs in the runs, he didn't...

The Locale: A steel industrial brooder with nylon mesh over the top. From the top of the brooder to the floor is a good four foot drop. The Players: 55 mixed bantam chicks and a German Shepherd with a prey drive/working dog complex. One Tweety Bird by name. The Setting: Family takes Tweety...

It's 96 degrees here in sunny NY, 87 of which are in my house. These guys are 1 week old mixed bantams. I checked on them an hour ago and every one was spread out as thin as they could get and panting heavily. I raised the heat lamp as high as it would go and came back half an hour later with no...

You don't fall into the toilet when your boyfriend forgets to put down the seat. Might not be wet, but my is that porcelain cold!

1) Welsummer/mutt, 4-6 years old, skinny! 2) Thin, lethargic, slight wheeze with a drinking motion 3) Had known symptoms for 5 days 4) No one else seems to be sick, will be doing another check soon 5) No bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. 6) I think it started because my...

I'll be getting 50 bantams from Cackle Hatchery soon, and as at least half of these birds will be kept for eggs (hopefully) I'd like to get them socialized to be friendly chickens. I've only taken care of our meat birds, which I had to take pains not to get attached to, so their socialization...

I have a big stainless steel industrial type brooder. I just barely got by with the kitchen thermometers last round and would like to do better this go around. Any one familiar with this kind or have suggestions? Thanks, Paper

So, I looked into my bantam house and couldn't find my hens! They weren't in the nest box, or in the run! And this isn't a huge area. You'll never guess where I found them...... Where's the weirdest place you ever found your chooks?

I have nipple waterers set up at the bottom of two gallon pails and hung from the roof of my coops. The bantams seem to be just fine, but the buffs and my mutt run have chickens with poopy butt. I see them using the waterers, the mutt run seemingly excessively, and when I press on them they...

We lost one of my africans last night. It looks like she just passed in her sleep. We got them as rescues so we have no idea how old they are. Every one else seems to be just fine but I'll be keeping an eye on the four of them.

Our chickens generally die of old age around here, unless they are suffering or have bad luck. For the most part they die in their sleep, we've had a few old birds pass away over the summer this way. Most of my flock is geriatric at this point the oldest coming in around 10 years. There is one...

I was talking to an old timer type chicken friend of mine..err...human friend who is older and has chickens...about how she deals with various problems with out the benefits of modern medicine. Scaly leg mites came up and this is what she did, has any one heard of it/used it? It worked for her...

And goats, to be fair. I went out around dusk to lock up my chickens and heard the geese making their alarm calls. They usually do this when some one walks by so I didn't think anything of it. Until I got up to the fence and saw a ring of geese and goats around the wood pile. The goats were...

Hi all! I'm the newest member of our little farm and have taken over most of our chicken activities. Being a newb, I've been wandering through the various pages and issues that people are having with hopes of being pro active on some things. One of them is diatomaceous earth for pest control...

I have an Ameraucana roo who has a fairly bad case of scissor beak/cross beak. It's trauma induced, and my fault, and of course he's the sweetest of the surviving babies from The Great Prolonged Kill. I'm going to be switching over to nipple waterers and this autofeed system- I think he should...

Hi every one, I have 3 pilgrim and a chinese geese and a pilgrim gander. Our girls usually only lay in March-April and only one of them is usually broody, the older of the pilgrims. I noticed we were down a few members earlier today and went prowling. I have three broody geese, one of which...

100 chicks came earlier than we expected, right after father-in-laws funeral. Commercial brooder wasn't stable yet. Turns out none of last years thermometers work and we have to make do with meat ones. The temp range is all over the place and incorrect by 8 on one and 17 on the other. The...

Hi guys! I'd like to introduce you to Ralph. He's one of my Bantam EE Roos. I haven't had as much face time with my birds as I'd like. I started a socializing regime today and found this! He doesn't seem to be too skinny, though the feathers under his face don't look like they've been preened...

These guys were a surprise delivery from our Sebright/gamecock bantams. We found them sitting on a horde of eggs in the goat pen. We brought them(and the eggs)inside and out of 15 eggs, 13 hatched! The possible daddies are a Dominique or a trio of Welsummer brothers. There are at least roos we...

I got these guys from Cackle Hatchery about three months ago. They've spent almost all of that time in my house being around people. Very tame to say the least. Sadly I have far more roos than I can use and need to get these guys to a good home pronto. I've tried selling them, to no avail. Pick...