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Wow! As you said - sounds like heaven!! What a fun place for all those critters 😍 welcome to BYC!

Hi Sarah! Welcome to BYC! I love the music theme you have going for your flock 🎸 mine’s in the same vein (6 black Australorps named after singers)

I wonder if adding a tarp or poop board under your roosts would minimize moisture in the coop, as long as it was scooped out every couple days. That way the poo isn’t gumming up the bedding!

The girls got a lot of garden time in the last couple days, between cleaning up beds, leaving behind a little compost, and eating spreading out cover crop seed. What’s cuter than black chickens against a backdrop of fall color? Nothing, I say! Ella, queen of the woodpile. Mama Cass - is...

This month has been so crazy with work and traveling and whatnot! I haven’t even thought about Halloween, really. But when I get back home on Friday, that’ll be a different story… On that note, any ideas for last-minute, buy-nothing costumes? 😆

I can’t wait to try it out! Lots of friends have sent me that one viral video that was going around haha. Looks like the chickens enjoy it!

So, in hindsight, probably not the best idea to get six identical-looking girls as my first flock. But now that their combs have come in, I can finally tell them apart! And as such, the flock has been officially named…all after dark-haired vocalists. Besides the obvious ones, can you tell who? 🖤🎶

Update here: Ella is a-OK! Two days after I posted, we took her into the garage and, as gently as we could with a big awkward squeeze bottle, rinsed her eye a couple times with saline solution. We were going to isolate overnight just in case, but she was NOT having it, so we put her back with...

I celebrate Samhain with: 🍂a final harvest and big ol’ chicken-led garden cleanup 🍎a dish of pork with apples and onions (which will be completely locally sourced for the first time in the seven years I’ve made it — wooo!) 🖤a little space in my home with candles, family mementos, and sweet...

The Silmarillion is SOOO GOOOOD! I’m a mythology nerd so I loved getting to learn the “lore” behind Middle Earth. I hope you love it. Right now I’m reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine (realizing as an adult that my history teachers were terrible, so doing some self-educating :)) and after...

Thank you! My husband and I busted our butts this summer to get it done :D the flock seems to like it! As promised, here’s a photo (albeit a grainy one). This is the eye in question. I checked on them multiple times throughout the day, and didn’t see any abnormal behavior, isolating, drooping...

Thanks for responding, @Wyorp Rock! They’re still on medicated chick feed (Purina, 18% protein). They get a scratch mix (oats, mealworm, sunflower seeds, calendula petals) as treats, plus recently they’ve gotten hornworms from the garden (but I’m pretty sure the girls just torture them and don’t...

It really is! I was in Detroit for a hot minute over the weekend and was totally out of my element, despite having lived in the area for several years. Glad to be home. Torch Lake--what a beautiful place to grow up!

Hi! I'm new here and just found this thread. Anyone in/near Emmet County? We are in a rural part, and MAN it's hard to find like-minded folks...even when you move back to the same community you grew up in!

Hi! I'm a new chicken keeper (6 Australorp hens, 12 weeks old at time of posting). One of my girls has been acting strangely for the last few weeks, off and on. Sometimes, she integrates with the rest of the flock, behaves normally, looks happy/curious, etc. Other times, she sets herself...