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When you do introduce them make sure there are several places to eat, drink, and hide. They will take a while to work out a new pecking order. The good thing is you are introducing two new girls not just one so they will have a buddy to hang out with during the adjustment.

thanks Oregon Blues. I'm with you on that. I called some towns farther out today and was able to find one, thank goodness. Now I've got to work up the courage to go out there and prick them all. It looks like a painful prick the applicator has really big "prickers". My poor babies... but at...

I have been having trouble with mosquitos here and now have my first chicken with fowl pox. I am going to vaccinate the rest of the flock but when I bought the vaccine from the feed store they were out of the applicators. I went to every feed store vet around here but no one had the...

thanks for asking critter sitter. She did die Saturday night. I still haven't figured out what could have been wrong.

forgot to say that her poop is creamy white / tan not green at all not formed

today our one year old orpington is lethargic, not eating on her on, not walking around. She is usually a hyper girl all over the yard, one of the first ones out, and the least submissive of all the hens so she is not easy to catch unless you catch her on the roost. This afternoon we let the...

What little cuties you have Maple looks like it could be a boy ... maybe thats why or it could be that the other is just a snuggler and maple isn't. I have a d'uccle pullet (that was the one in a mixed group of pullets and cockerels all a couple weeks old) that all the others snuggled...

AAAAAWWWW!!!!! That's so cute

go to this topic www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=842&p=2 and look under post #16. You'll see a link to dlunicorn's site that you can click on. It brings you to the directions for treating wry neck (crookneck). Good luck! I just got a chick with the crookneck today and was...

Beautiful pictures Cute names too, you must be a Harry Potter fan or have kids who are. We had a couple of little cockerels this year I named one George and the other Fred

Ooops! (we need a blushing smiley don't we ) Shows how close I was looking. Sounds like your having quite the adventure with Miracle. I'd quarantine her because she has evidently decided she is yours now.

I was given a 3 - 5 year old RIR that had no white feathers and after she molted she now has two white feathers. All of her feathers are shiny and beautiful, she just now has the two odd ones. So maybe

I hope someone knows. I've been trying to find that out too!

I use sand in my house and run and I am very happy with it but am considering making a 4 x 4 box in the covered run with bedding in it to a) sprinkle scratch into for entertainment and b) have a deep litter area to attract some fly predators. We had a pretty bad time last summer with flies and...

try www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=203048. I believe that'll tell you the dose and how long to wait before eating the eggs.