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Hi, all, De-lurking because my dear Emma Zitsie was grabbed twice by a fox this morning. My husband ran it off, and I've had her in a dog crate inside the house all day. She has some skin punctures but no apparent muscle involvement and no active bleeding, and she's getting more & more insistent...

I carefully reviewed the sticky links at the top, and feel that I had great information on the killing/eviscerating/food safety parts of the job, but I have a few more questions and can't find answers up there. I know the chicken needs to "rest" a bit after slaughter to tenderize, but how...

Hi, all, trying not to sound scrambled/frantic here but my 7 year old just came running in the house to tell me "the chickens have red stuff on their heads!" All 6 are there, all of them have head lacerations. One hen has bright red blood on her beak & is panting. She's alone in the run now...

Hi, all, I was trying to cobble together something to keep the 5 week old chicks in, and this is working great! It's just leftover junk I had in the cellar, scraps from the (still unfinished) coop, and an old drop-side crib. Those were all recalled I guess, so I can't give it away, but it's...

Hi, all, I'm heading into the home stretch with the coop, but I have a question that the mighty Google has not helped me to solve. I'm putting Ondura corrugated plastic roofing on the coop, and while their website told me all kinds of useful things about purlin spacing and nails and panel...

I'm too new to chickens to have much to say in these threads, but am a science geek in real life and ran across this today: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/15/how-the-transylvanian-naked-neck-chicken-got-its-naked-neck/ He's an excellent science blogger. Hope this...

My chicks are a week and a half old, growing like weeds, and great fun to watch. I'm in there 2-3 times a day to get them used to me, and five of them are fine, hopping on and off my hands and arms and generally being curious and cute. One of the barred rocks, though, is taking folds of my skin...

TSC had chicks, just as I found out that the feed store won't be getting them until a month later than they said! I'm *very* excited. Three Plymouth Rocks, three dark Brahmas. All but one peacefully asleep at the moment. Temperature steady at 95 degrees, food and water clean and available, cats...

...that I'm not keeping up with BYC very well any more because I'm too busy *building my coop* all day! I'm very excited to get going though. Pictures as soon as I find the cable to connect my camera to the computer. I'm progressing much more slowly now that my "help" is 2 small children. DH is...

My father (master scrounger) was here for Christmas and noticed the frame. I've been using it to gate in/dress up the leaf compost pile, but it's approx. 5d x 7w x 8h feet and has convenient rails at just-over-wheelbarrow height. I'm planning a raised coop. Has anyone used this as framing? The...

Hello, I'm a native Rhode Islander happily transplanted to Connecticut and about to start raising chickens for both eggs and meat. Several childhood friends had chickens when I was growing up but I never got much involved besides gathering the eggs, so I'll have some basic questions I'm sure...