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Hi, I have been wanting to throw this out there for awhile. I have read a million times on this site that chickens don't overeat, and I have always fed my chickens free choice, mainly for my own convenience. I give them kitchen scraps too. Well, I have had chickens for about 8 years and i am...

I found one of my cochin bantams in the dead in the yard yesterday. We have had this stray cat coming around lately, and last night I caught it in a trap. I am going to describe what was done to the dead chicken now..... Just warning you.... The head and neck were bitten off and eaten...

Hi, my goose has been sitting on a nest for about 29 days - well I went out today to check on them and there was a little gosling lying on the ground about three feet from the nest. I went in and the gander stepped on him , didn't seem to know he was there! I picked the little guy up and he was...

I have a broody goose and I made a styro-cooler incubator. Taking votes on who will be better- me or the goose! We are both first timers. None of my Cochins Is sitting! Please vote! IMaybe I will do half and half!

Ok so I ordered hatching eggs for the first time.... They were delayed being sent and now have been en route for five days... Including over the weekend. It's getting up into the 90s here in the afternoon. What kind of luck have you all had with shipped eggs? Btw they are 16 French Maran eggs.

Hi, I have some chicken eggs arriving soon and my broody hen abandoned her nest! I have a goose that is newly sitting though! Has anyone tried this? I know the chicken eggs take 21 days and the goose longer, but my idea was that around day 18 I would fence her off from the water and the gander...

Hi! So I have a pair of American Buffs. They are a year old. They has a nest filled with about 12 eggs. She started her nest outside the pen and some eggs got eaten by some varmit so I had to move her nest inside the pen ( a few feet). She has been laying in the new nest since. She lays...

Hi, I have two American buff geese and she has finally just started to sit ! Does anyone know if it is possible to get ahold of some sebastapol hatching eggs ASAP? Maybe it is too late?

I have a pair of geese and they have a secure pen that they sleep in but my goose made a nest right behind it. It took me a while to see it because she buries they eggs sometimes. We have these huge racoons here that recently got one of my meat birds by pulling the poor thing through chicken...

Hi, I had a problem the other day when I tried to pluck my x rocks. The skin tore. I was dry picking soon after death. This is what I usually do, without problems. Anyone know how to keep the skin from tearing on these big birds?

Hi, I've got a broody RIR and I'm going to put some day olds with her on Monday. I have a Cochin bantam with six four weeks olds, too. My chickens all get along, so far. Do y'all think I can put the RiR in with the Cochin and the little ones? I am running out of runs. I could make yet...

I know there is already stuff on here about opossums, but I went out to shut up my chicken run tonight and I saw one bigger than a big cat. It was unbelievably ugly and gross and mangy looking. Could I trap it? It was totally indifferent to the flashlight. Dh was not here or I would have...

Hi - I have a little Cochin bantam who has been sitting on some fake eggs for three weeks. I have some chicks that just arrived yesterday. I took a couple out there to her but she pecked them to get away from her. Is it worth another try - perhaps in the dark? How exactly have y'all done this...

I've got a brooder full of day old chicks and a broody outside Who has been sitting on fake eggs for three weeks ... Should I wait for pre- dawn to try to give her some, or can I try now?

Hi I got my Cockoo Marans from McMurray, and they were very healthy, nice birds who are not at all afraid of us. I even still have one old biddy that I keep around because she is so funny and she will go broody and she is so big that I could put a lot of eggs under her. She will even try to...

Just want to show off my new nest box. I think almost anyone could make something like it! I was inspired by the pictures Opa posted, but mine is a little different. I lined it with cut up floor mats, thinking I could wash them,. but they are getting kid of gross, so I am going to rplace them...

Help! I cannot make this work. I tried copying the photo from a brand new photobucket account, but it said "temporary error". What are we to do? I cannot be the only one with this issue...

Hi, this morning we went to let the geese - a trio -out of their pen and one of the geese was badly beat up by the gander. She didn't move at all for awhile and her face has a littlE blood on it. Now she is up and around but she is staying away from the other birds and moving slowly. Is this...

Hi, i was thinking of ordering a few white silkies for broody hens and because they look cool, but i was wondering of they will just always be filthy or what. No that my bantam pen is very dirty, but I am not going to wash them or keep them on pefectly clean shavings all the time either. So...

Hi my Gand is beating up on my drake... They were raised together, but now I am afraid the drake is going to end up dead. I have a great little pool over a drain set up and I cannot do another one. So it has to be one or the other.... my question is do you think removing the drake will solve...