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    Ended Guess When BYC Will Reach 480,000 Members!

    2/5/2023 1pm 😁
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    🎃🦇BYC's 2022 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!🦇🎃

    I missed on doing eggs for this HAL (schedule change, chilly weather stopping brooding, and other stuff), so I'll get my chick-scares of death sleepers (sprawled out nappers), water bathers, and everlasting peeping from everybody else's shares. 😆
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    Ended Guess When BYC Will Reach 475,000 Members!

    9/24/2022 3 am
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    🎃🦇BYC's 2022 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!🦇🎃

    Been thinking about ordering some hatching eggs for this HAL, but I haven't committed yet. I have a couple hens acting broody, though hard telling which ones will still be in the mood in a couple weeks. Hopefully a couple will stick through (I make sure they get food and water). We've already...
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    Chicken laying down, not moving wings but moving head and legs

    I'm sorry for your loss. As some others have recommended, I encourage looking up information for lab testing in your region and submitting her for a necropsy. I don't see where you are located, but in my state, I can get a "backyard chicken" necropsy for $10. That doesn't includes marek's...
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    Ended Guess When BYC Will Reach 470,000 Members!

    7/2/2022 at 9pm
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    ALABAMA!!

    Anyone in Huntsville area interested in a frizzle hen? Her back and wings are currently near bare, but she's otherwise healthy, friendly, and a decent olive egg layer (under 2 years old). As long as she's kept away from roosters/feather eaters, she'll end up with a nice set of feathers after the...
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    SOS! Part of Chicken's Top Beak Fell Off Leaving Exposed Fleshy Underside

    In your spot, I'd first gently clean up both the beak and her feet of any dirt, applying a thin layer of antibiotic ointment to the beak, then set her up in an living area that can be kept relatively sanitary until that spot naturally closes up. It may help to give her chick crumble if mash...
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    13th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    If I had a broody hen, I'd probably have started some bantam eggs. The only maybe-broody so far this year turned out to be just hiding in nesting boxes because she overestimated her popularity with the boys and was avoiding them (she quickly decided the boys weren't that bad when I tested her...
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    BYC's 2021 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!

    I'm not inclined to deal with the consequences of incubating eggs this autumn but I'll come visit the HAL to see the candling and hatching pics. :)
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    Cockerels in North Alabama

    I've previously posted about Helius in my state's thread, but unless I missed something, there wasn't any responses and the conversation moved along. I may give another go if I don't have luck here.
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    Cockerels in North Alabama

    I'm in Huntsville and here are the boys that need a different home. Helius 6mo standard size mix breed, mostly white with rose comb. He's still working on his mounting technique, but is otherwise heading towards being a good rooster. Tidbits/dances for ladies, is nice with younger chickens, and...
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    Intestinal shedding or potential cocci poop?

    I refreshed all the water sources and dosed corid last night, but while the pullet is still doing okay now, one of my cockerels became very weak and passed this morning. I'm intending to send the cockerel to state lab for necropsy and if cocci (or something else contagious) is underfoot in my...
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    Intestinal shedding or potential cocci poop?

    I noticed today that one of my pullets, approx 5mo, is making poop that is kind of cecal-like in consistency but without notable scent and containing bloody tissue. I'm aware that sometimes a little bit of intestinal lining passes without concern, but this looks like a bit much. The pullet...
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    12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Hatchday was 3/31. Two chicks hatched on their own, but one got stuck with curled toes and somehow ended up injured too, died within a couple days. The egg I thought was dead turned out to still have living chick, but it had problems trying to hatch and died within minutes of being assisted out...
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