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Glad to meet you, Naz, and welcome to BYC. We'd love to hear and see more about your wonderful flock's adventures. Best wishes from New England. Here are a couple articles you may find helpful: Gardening for chickens BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures To look for articles on your own...

Glad to meet you, Mr. Coffee! Congratulations on the most-commented-on user name. And best wishes from New England. Here are a couple articles that may be useful: Gardening for chickens BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures To look for articles on your own: A. Use the SEARCH button, but...

Welcome back, Jenn. May your computer woes be over! What a lovely bunch of birds you have! Congratulations and thanks for sharing the great pictures of wonderful birds.

Glad to meet you, Rene, and welcome to BYC. How nice that you are able to "close the circle" with your experiences with your grandparents' flock. Congratulations on your new flock! You will enjoy the chickens more than you can guess. Best wishes from New England. Here are my favorite beginning...

Glad to meet you, Darlene, and welcome to BYC. Congratulations on your flock! May they enjoy the mealworms! Best wishes from New England. Here are my favorite beginning articles that helped me as a newbie. I hope you will find them helpful as well. All articles are short, have illustrations...

Glad to meet you, WenHen, and welcome to BYC. What a terrific idea, to keep the chicks you hatched in your classroom! You will enjoy the chickens so much! Best wishes from New England. Here are my favorite beginning articles that helped me as a newbie. I hope you will find them helpful as well...

Glad to meet you, Debbie, and welcome to BYC. Congratulations on your new flocks. You will have so much fun! Here are my favorite beginning articles that helped me as a newbie. I hope you will find them helpful as well. All articles are short, have illustrations, and reviews, which are often...

Oh, I am so sorry for ALL your losses. That is so hard! :hugs Rats ARE AWFUL, and hard to get rid of. It helped a lot when I cleaned up all the spilled food and arranged feeding so the birds didn't spill so much. First I went with mash for the birds, then switched to a no spill feeder. To make...

Glad to meet you, Shawna Lee, and welcome to BYC. Even as an experienced chickeneer, you may find this article useful: BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures and here is the "sticky topics" index from our Turkey forum! To look for articles on your own: A. Use the SEARCH button, but use...

Welcome to BYC. OMG the fluff! So cute. :jumpy

Glad to meet you and welcome to BYC. Best wishes with your bird adventures of all types! Geese are so cool. Here are some articles to help you: 1. Pickin' the Right Frickin' Chicken 2. Ventilation (important to chicken health), with helpful links to coop designs organized by climate (because...

Glad to meet you, Ken, and welcome to BYC. I am another long time day dreamer, but am glad I took the chicken plunge. Here are some articles to help you: 1. Pickin' the Right Frickin' Chicken 2. Ventilation (important to chicken health), with helpful links to coop designs organized by...

Glad to meet you and welcome to BYC. Here is an article with tips and tricks to raising ducks. Best wishes with your adorable ducklings! There is also a forum just for ducks! Look at this on the "sticky" at the top of the forum, for LOTS more duck raising info. To look for articles on your...

Congratulations on getting back to ducks! OOOH, they are so CUTE when they are babies. Send pictures, please! Best wishes with your incubation and all things duck. Here is an article on incubation that is relevant with ducks as well as other poultry. And here are tips and tricks for raising...

Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Leafy greens are terrific, from dandelions and common plantain (without pesticides, please!) to mustard, kale and lettuce, are great all the time. I give my ladies kale over the winter, and start a greens garden for them each spring. Here's a link on...