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    Open Contest Guess When BYC Will Reach 520,000 Members!

    O6/07/2025 9 pm
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    Open Contest Guess How Many Eggs Hatched!—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    I guess 1,125
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    Comment by 'Beckys Birds' in article 'Splay Leg and Spraddle Leg Treatment'

    Thank you. After I posted that I remembered vet wrap. That's what I used. He ended up having rotated tibias and passed 4 days later.
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    Ended Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set!—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Congratulations everyone!
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    I have two Sapphire Gem cockrells about 2 weeks from moving outside, and once they are grown Waffles will hopefully have a new run to move into. He will probably be sad, but I can't have him beat up because he's a quarter their size.
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    Waffles actually mounts, he's just too far up the hens back. He doesn't make it past her tail. My big roo was gotten by a bob cat the end of November. It cleared the 5ft electric fence in the middle of the day with full sun. So the girls were excited when I had to move Waffles in to the big run...
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    Ended Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set!—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    3,002
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    Open Contest Hatching Fowl Photo Contest—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry # 3 Here she is again as Hannibal takes a rest under his shell belt/blanket. This was my very first incubator hatch, and I was so afraid to do anything that may have hurt the hatch.
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    Open Contest Hatching Fowl Photo Contest—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry #2 I love Bo's face in this one. She always has her eye on me, even now.
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    Open Contest Hatching Fowl Photo Contest—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry #1 These are my blue and blue/black splash Jersey Giants that hatched on April 16, 2025. There are four cochins still inside their eggs, and you can see the last JG still has his shell as a belt. The closest chick was the first to hatch, and she was the only one to make noise while still...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    I need Tiny to give Waffles some lessons! I would love to see a Serama/LF Cochin cross. 😆
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    Yes! My tiny Serama roo is like this, too! It's like he needs to be ready to fight the wind at any moment. He's my only roo at the moment, and all my hens are regular or giant breeds. My man is like Donkey from "Shrek" and his dragon wife, except he's never made babies. ;) But he THINKS he's a...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    That used to be a big issue for us, too. We put the fake eggs in the nest boxes, and they finally figured it out. We also use old 2 drawer file cabinets with the top drawer removed. They really like those a lot. I think because they are big, but also make them feel secure. I spent a lot of money...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    One thing mine do that drives me nuts is making dirt bath holes all over the run despite having several designated bath stations. They pick places that are inconvenient like right in front of the gate or along the bottom of the fence. I have to fill those holes in or two things will happen. 1) I...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    I gave up on washing my lavender cochins butts. They are not fans of it, and it gets poopie angain right after. Sometimes the other chicken get that way, but in the morning they've cleaned themselves. Not the cochins. Such diry birds for being so beautiful. I do verbally shame them, but they...
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