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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2021

    This is my 3 year old silver laced Wyandotte “Tweedle “ not looking so flash mid malt.
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest—Fancy Feathered Fellas Photo Contest

    My beautiful Pepi
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest—Family and Fowl Photo Contest

    I raised a wild duck with my chickens and they all like to cuddle me at once while we watch tv…well try to anyway..
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest—Family and Fowl Photo Contest

    My daughter Jaymie having a moment with our rooster Garry.
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest—Family and Fowl Photo Contest

    My daughter Liv with our very gentle giant rooster Pepi who loves cuddles very much.
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest—Family and Fowl Photo Contest

    This Pepi and Ivy having a cuddle on my back step.
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    Official BYC Poll: How do you name your pet chickens?

    My chickens have names such as chookma because we got her when she was already 18 months old and like a grandma compared to the rest of the flock. I have Barbara, named because she’s orange and it seemed like a good ranga name. Tweedle came as a pair and originally named tweedle dee and tweedle...
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    Bedding for linoleum floor coop?

    I have a linoleum floor and use a combination of 1.5" of hemp bedding on the bottom and 2-3" of straw on top. I also sprinkle the whole lot with diatomaceous eath to help prevent mites. The hemp absorbs a lot of the odour and the straw lets a lot of the fall through so the chickens aren't...
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    Hello from Newcastle Australia

    Wow! Thank you so much for all the info! I will certainly take your advice and connect with other BYC members near me. One thing I am very glad I instinctively did with my new (rather sad looking) girls is build them a new pen before they arrived and kept them separate from my older healthy...
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    Hello from Newcastle Australia

    I'm looking forward to reading all your posts and gaining as much knowledge as I can to give my chooks the best life I can. I've recently adopted some rescue chooks from a local egg farm and they're not in great condition. I'm hoping to get some advice on how I can get them looking and feeling...
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