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    Central TX: 3 Jersey Giants, 4 Sumatra ASAP

    HOME FOUND! Thank you, everyone! It was incredibly inspiring to see y’all mobilize to get my chickens adopted 🥺❤️ truly, an amazing community. My Sumatra and jersey giants found a new home in 2 Days. Incredible.
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    Texas

    Thank you, everyone! It was incredibly inspiring to see y’all mobilize to get my chickens adopted 🥺❤️ truly, an amazing community. My Sumatra and jersey giants found a new home in 1 day. Incredible.
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    Central TX: 3 Jersey Giants, 4 Sumatra ASAP

    Amazing, thank you!! DMing you now
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    Texas

    Hey y’all, I don’t want to spam, but this is super urgent. Is there ANYONE in central Texas (Waxahachie) who can adopt 7 chickens (3 Jersey giants hens, 3 Sumatra hens, 1 Sumatra rooster) last-minute? Like, in the next 4 days? They reached egg-laying age in November, and and the Jersey...
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    Central TX: 3 Jersey Giants, 4 Sumatra ASAP

    I have 7 chickens that DESPERATELY need a new home, in Waxahachie, TX. I am moving out of state THIS COMING MONDAY! (Feb 2nd) I had a buyer lined up but she backed out last-minute. — 3 black Jersey Giant hens, laying eggs even in the winter 3 Black Sumatra hens, same age but they’re...
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    How to train your chickens…

    It is VERY easy to use positive reinforcement to train chickens. Mine have 3 cues. One is clicking my tongue, like making kissy-noise clicks. This means “come get food!” If I make that noise, I ALWAYS have special treats in-hand. The flock comes RUNNING. One is whistling...
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    wyandotte rooster pecked me and drew blood for the 2nd time what should we do

    Tbh I try to be friends with my cockerel. They don’t understand “dominance” they only understand “threat” and “not a threat” If you’re not a threat, he may peck to see if you’ll submit to him in the pecking order (it exists, there’s pecking involved), and then leave you be. Unfortunately...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Collected echinacea seeds, and watered the orchard. Texas late summer is so dryyyyy.
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    Ended Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #24

    and again, I think a picture of a blurry chicken butt racing away from your hand holding a dollar bill is more reputable, sincere, and interesting than the soulless-and-suspicious ai generated pic of a perfectly posed glowing chicken next to stacks of glowing dollar bills. “Worthy of being a...
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    Ended Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #24

    You can say that, and I believe you. But using an ai photo is, to me, akin to typing like a “Nigerian prince” - Or building a website page with “BUSTY WOMEN NEAR YOU” and “click here to win $1,000,000!” banners everywhere. It just gives the whole place an untrustworthy, low-effort scam vibe. 🤷...
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    Ended Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #24

    Any time I see an AI photo representing an article, I assume the contents are also going to be untrustworthy slop generated by AI. ai-generated photos have me backpedaling out of the article and blocking the blog who made it. I’d rather see a blurry, poorly-lit phone pic of someone’s grimy...
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    Topic of the Week - Treating Chicken Injuries

    Recently had to deal with a very wide deep-tissue wound on a hen who got attacked by a raccoon. Ended up suturing her back together. I made a whole thread about it earlier, but the key supplies were: Saline spray to flush out debris from the wound Fine tweezers to extract debris that won’t...
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    Large Wound care and at-home surgery: anecdotes.

    That’s my hope - that maybe a bird with death on the table will get a shot at living.
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    Large Wound care and at-home surgery: anecdotes.

    I am not a veterinarian. Real veterinarian advice should always take precedence over this. I do not advise doing at-home surgery on your bird, as the suffering is great and the risks of infection and stress-death is high. Always go to a vet if you can. In my situation, local emergency vets...
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    Wound from dog attack

    ANY food is better than no food, if she has a poor appetite. If all she wants to eat is peanuts and yolks, you give her peanuts and yolks. nutritional balance doesn’t matter compared to getting calories to heal. My hens love peanuts, millet, and cucumber seed goo. They don’t care for...
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