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You might be a crazy chicken lady if you bake homemade gingerbread muffins for breakfast, then take them outside to eat them and all the chickens come to eat with you because they KNOW you will share...and it doesn't really freak you out if they reach up and grab their own bite of muffin....

You might be a crazy chicken lady if you take your homemade watermelon blueberry popsicle outside to eat so that you can share with the hens, who all come running up to take bits of frozen melon and frozen blueberry from your fingers.... and when you're done, even though you don't want to eat...

Mine get milk whenever I have a surplus, but I leave it until it barely begins to sour before I give it to them. They love it. Cow's milk does make runny poo, although I don't see that with goat's milk.

I am so proud of all of you! :) When I started this thread in 2009 I was looking for kindred souls. Thank you for sharing with me! Okay -- You might be a crazy chicken lady if you get a box of 50 "bonus" rooster chicks from the hatchery, and one of them has a twisted neck -- and you keep him...

I didn't read everyone's responses, so if I'm repeating someone else, I apologize in advance. You reflect on shared memories together, and create a few special new memories so you'll have something sweet to reflect on when they are gone. Laugh as much as possible together, even if it's only a...

Please remember any time you treat with antibiotics it is wise to restore the intestinal flora by use of ProBios or yogurt.

Based on my experience using Coppertox (Copper Napthenate 37%) on horses hooves for thrush, it probably WOULD help for bumblefoot ... BUT!!!! Not if you are ever going to eat that chicken! And it might transfer into egg production. The warning that goes with the product says "CAUTION: Do not...

The Mardi Gras turkey is worthy of a photo contest...

I incubate them, ESPECIALLY if I know that other hens have laid "on" the setting hen while she was broody -- there are some that may only be a few days along.

Yes -- around here, unless you buy sexlink chicks, you get lower price for "straight run" -- the trick is to buy about 2 times as many as you want, because around 50% will be hens and 50% roos if you are buying from someone reputable. Last year I bought from someone that I did not know was...

One of my friends has a hen of this cross. She's pretty, looks mostly royal palm-ish. She throws babies by a Red Bourbon turkey cock that often look mostly naragansett.

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Ghosts AND birds, in the same story. The house I live in now was built by a couple in the 1950's and they raised their kids here. It is surrounded by family owned lands, and all of my neighbors are related to these folks although I am not. Before I started keeping chickens and quail, I had...

Had friends growing up -- they had adopted some of their kids and others were biological. When someone asked them which ones were adopted, the dad would get a puzzled look, think for a minute, and then say, "You know, I don't remember!"