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Just wondering if anyone else is having issues with BYC linking to nextag when you hit the back button and sometimes going to different threads. It has been happening to me for a couple of days now and at first I thought I was hitting something weird but there is nothing about nextag on any of...

I have discovered today that I have 2 RIR hens with bumblefoot. One of them has it on both feet. OMGosh, I'm not sure I can do the surgery without puking all over them!!! :sick I have a very weak stomach!!! I have looked at the tutorial but dang.... Anyone ever done it that has a weak...

Just this fall we have added on to our existing chicken coop and made it into a 16' x 17' Wood's style open air coop and now I'm wondering how I'm going to brood my broilers when I get them in the spring? My brooder used to be about 1/3 of my old coop that was completely closed but now I'm...

My DIL's father gave us eight of his easter egger chickens that are going to be 3 years old in April. When I got them this summer I just put them in the tractor that I use for my broilers. They have been allowed to free range with my existing chickens and seem to have integrated well but they...

Something is making its way through my coop. We just brought 7 little girls back from the county fair last weekend and on Wednesday noticed that the rooster and another hen were making funny noises and had a rattle when they would breathe. They were separated from the rest of the flock and...

I have a hen that has been laying eggs like this one for the last month or so. I'm assuming that it's the same hen because the eggs are all exactly alike. They are about 2 3/4" long and 1 3/4" wide and always have this little fault line in it. The little dark spots on the shell are almost...

OMGosh, does anyone need a broody??? I have 4 of them right now, a Buff Rock, 2 Buff Orpington's and a Buff Brahma Bantam. Hehe...maybe I need to get away from buffs. I'm going to have to try and break them one at a time because I only have one rabbit hutch. :rolleyes: There has got to be...

I have two hens that I lovingly refer to as my nest box naughties. These two hens will walk back and forth in front of the nest boxes and if they don't want one of the girls in there....they are down right vicious!!! They will grab them by their combs and literally pull them out of the nest...

I have a 1 year old BO and when I went to the coop tonight I noticed that one of my girls was making this strange sound. It was my favorite hen so I reached down and picked her up. It sounds like a growl type sound when she exhales, almost like she's getting ready to bock but she doesn't, she...

My DIL just received her order of chicks this morning and she had a single Bobwhite Quail in her order. Are they okay to keep as singles? If so, what would you put it in? OMG...it is so tiny!!!! I kinda want it but have never raise quail before, only chickens and turkeys. :)

Hi everyone! I have 35 CX, 5 GLW and 5 Delaware chicks coming a week from next Monday and I have a question. I was wanting to brood them in the chicken coop beings the weather has been so nice, my coop has a pen that is divided from the rest of the coop that I keep my almost 1 year old RIR...

Bwaahaahaa..my 3 year old granddaughter was just sitting on my lap and spied the Ideal hatchery ad in featured sponsors and what pops out of her mouth but....."Nanny, I don't think we should buy that, we don't need no dancing chickens!" I just about fell off of my chair I was laughing so hard...

OMGosh, I put saddles on 5 of my 42 girls last night and the hen house in is an uproar!!! All of the girls not wearing them and the rooster are absolutely freaking out when one of the saddled girls come near them. They are flying into the sides of the coop and everything. I turned the light...

2 girls gave us our first 2 eggs for our anniversary!!! I'm so excited. That talk (threat) I had with them this morning must have worked!!! One laid early afternoon and the second one just a few minutes ago, I thought they laid eggs in the morning.

Whew...it's been a long week of fair activities but we are finally done! My granddaughters all did an awesome job but only one was qualified to have market animals. My oldest granddaughter used 4 of my BO girls and she was grand champion with them and with our little Polish cockerel she was...

We have been really rainy today and my meaties have lost their minds!! I went out to check on them and they are all fighting. 4 of them are all bloody and one has an open wound on the side of his face. Should I clean them up with hydrogen peroxide and use antibiotic ointment on the open...

I have 42 pullets and a few of my RIR's are starting to get really red combs and waddles. My question is, when they start laying should I change my feed to layers mash for all of them or keep them on grower until the majority start laying?

And tonight it's supposed to get down to 45. They have been without a heatlamp for about 4 days now but the coop stays a balmy 60. They are feathered for the most part but was wondering if I should add a heat lamp to the tractor tonight?

Okay, I have 44 three week old CX (will be 4 weeks on Saturday). They have been on Nutrena NatureWise 22% meatbird feed and today I went to the feed store to get pig food for my DIL and talked to him about broiler feed. He has his own recipe and says that he has had very good feedback with it...

Last night my Black Polish rooster attacked my Black Polish cockerel to the point that his head was bloody. Today he has been sleeping most of the day and seems very wobbly on his feet. He keeps bobbing his head up and down when standing. Could the rooster have caused some brain damage and if...