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--- So, if it turns out that my hen really does have a respiratory disease and not Gapeworm or a impacted crop, is the respiratory disease contagious to me as I handle her? Should I stop eating the eggs as well, in case of some other weird disease? She is squeeking a lot this evening with...

Hi everyone: I live in Santa Clarita ... just 10 miles north of Granada Hills or Sylmar. I am going to give up my 3 very sweet FRAZZLE hens ... 2 red, 1 white .... because they are damaging our residential yard....they are digging holes into it. They are definitely FRAZZLES, with some balding...

_______________ Hi Everyone: I have 3 hens who are exactly one year old this week. They have been eating Lay Crumbles for the past 6ish months. This weekend, I got a bag of Pellets instead of the crumbles .... thought I could maybe save on some of the waste. But these 3 finicky hens are...

___________ Just browsing thru eggbid.com (and byc) as hubby finishes up with the superbowl .... I came across a pair of show silkies for $785 .... What! Could it be true? Do show birds really sell at this price ??? Just curious? Here's the LINK...

____________ Hello, here's my question: My 7 mos old, frizzle bantam hen started laying eggs, Jan 1/09. She is laying every 2nd day. Just today, in her little nest, I picked up her egg, and there was blood on the shell. She is fine in every other way....no strange or sickly behaviour. Is...

________________ Call Bubba at 818- 967- 9093 if you would like a FREE Turkey He will need to fill you in on age, gender, etc. since I do not know .... I'm just posting for him, as he is away from a computer right now. thanks, Lee ________________

_________ Phooey !!! I am angry about my Diatomaceous Earth. I paid $40 for a 10 lb bag and it ISN'T doing what everyone says DE does. **** I recently bought a 25 lb bag of poultry feed, which had no bugs in it when I first opened the bag. After I opened the 25 lb bag of feed and...

_______________ I'm posting for Bubba ... a Backyard Chicken Forum member who can't get to a computer these days. He's run into some bad luck with a neighbor who doesn't want poultry around, and so, Bubba needs to get rid of his flock. Give him a call and ask him what breeds and genders he...

______________ 6 wk old frizzled roo for sale .... pick up only .... $5.00 and 4 mos old splash silkie roo for sale ... tame, and very sweet ..... he allows five 6 wk old babies to sit under him every night !!! $25.00 Pick up only. I live 30 miles north of Los Angeles at the 5...

____________ Okay.... posting photo of ONE of my almost 4 week old chicks. I bought 12 frizzles from IDEAL. 6 came in straight feathered so I gave them away to a local pet store. 6 remain. Out of my 6 remaining: 1 (photo posted below) looks totally FRAZZLED already; with possibility of FOUR...

_______________ Well, I found a wealth of information about shampooing, on the Thread for "Showing" your chickens (LINK: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=44232&p=1 ) however I have a question, and thought I'd start a new Thread for the question: Must I use dish...

____________ Just had to post photos of my ROO sitting on the new chickies that I just bought 2 weeks ago .... I just separated some of the Frizzles and am running out of cages inside my home (Roo living inside at night, now that he is crowing in early a.m.'s .... when I bought it, I...

____________ Here is a photo of one of my meanest little chicks that I ordered .... this is a white, frizzle, bantam cochin .... 2 weeks + 2 days old. Because this one is one of the meanest AND has a larger comb, I'm guessing boy .... Would anyone else like to comment ??? Comb size...

___________ I have 12, two week old frizzle bantams. A good number of them like to jump at each other and bump 'chests'. Do ONLY boys do this ? Or will girls do this as well ?? Thanks, Lee {Please, be girls; Please be girls; Please be girls} ____________

_____________ Hi Everyone: I have two WHITE frizzle bantam cochin chicks for sale and two RED frizzle bantam cochin chicks for sale. They are NOT sexed and have a recessive frizzle gene.... meaning they are straight feathered. I am keeping the frizzled feathered ones for myself, to get one...

____________ I'm wanting to start to thin my little flock of babies, as I will be keeping only the frizzled bantam cochins that I purchased from IDEAL, and so I wonder at what age can you tell if it will be a FRIZZLED bird? At the age of 10 days old, I have some frizzle chicks with...

___________ I have had my baby chicks for one week now .... from IDEAL, btw ... all healthy and beautiful. QUESTION: I have them in a large cage, with bath towels as their flooring. As they are getting slightly larger, it seems the towels are getting SO filthy dirty, even just over...

_________ My babies just arrived today from IDEAL..... EVERYONE happy and full of energy .... THANKS IDEAL !!!! I have a question about the BLACK MALES that were added for warmth to my order: Does anyone know what breed it is? I need to give the BLACK extras away ..... FREE if anyone lives...

______________ I purchased from the local newspaper, a silkie girl (oh, she better be a girl), at the beginning of March. She was said to be a BLUE SPLASH silkie .... show quality line ( yeah, yeah ..... I know ... prove it) Anyway .... She is now about 8 wks old. She was very "white" in...

_______ Does anyone know if plain wood flooring is bad for our chickens? Hard on their feet? Bad to spend much time walking on? Also ... my d'uccle is an EXTREMELY messy eater, and half her food goes on the wood flooring, along with her droppings. She is then eating her food off the same...