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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    These are a few of my favorite pictures. My broody Jade with some shipped Maran eggs she hatched.
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    Open Contest Indoor Plant Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Every summer I put almost all my houseplants outside on my deck. They absolutely LOVE it and green and grow like crazy. Last week while watering them I noticed a plant (Suculent) had flowered. I've had the plant 3 years and this is the first time it flowered. It had a tag that said "Lovely Lady"...
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    Why aren’t my chicks eating!?

    If it was me, I would get some medicated chick starter ASAP. Your silkys are not meat birds and the formula may differ. also I would put some chick booster in the water. The pasty butt can be normal, but what temp is your brooder? Chilling may be a factor?
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    I've had similar rooster problems in the past. I had a rooster dislike a "crowing hen" once. I had a rooster be brutal with a speckled sussex hen because she had a larger than normal stand up comb. I had a rooster good in all ways except he viscously peck any other bird that tried to eat next...
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    Bugs Jumping in Coop

    If the bugs are you are seeing are the above Springtails they are harmless to pets and humans. Maybe go with a dry bedding like wood shavings.
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    Bugs Jumping in Coop

    wingless arthropods known for their ability to jump using a specialized appendage called a furcula. They are often found in damp environments and are generally harmless to humans, though they can become a nuisance when they appear in large numbers.
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    Tropic Thunder

    Wow! Thanks for joining! Also thanks for the pictures! Welcome to BYC!
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    Hens not using nesting boxes after hatching chicks

    Do you have fake eggs in your nest boxes? No need to buy the expensive ceramic ones in the farm Stores. I use golf balls. Some people use those plastic eggs for kids at Easter, filled with sand and super glued closed. Rocks shaped like eggs. Anything that will make it appear to the hens that...
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    New member from NC

    That's Great! I hope you are enjoying your chicken journey, and I would love to see your coop build. Welcome to BYC!
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    My mother hen is acting unusual

    I agree, the chicks should be fine now. They may call for her but will soon forget about their dependence on her. I once had a hen loose interest in her chick when it was 3 days old. Not good!
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    White Guineas

    My expierence is that all my white, pied, and Grey all were taken by preditors and only the pearl survives in my group. Not because they were less hardy, but because they were more visible targets.
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    My mother hen is acting unusual

    What age are the chicks?
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    Chick not growing

    All my chicks go outside at 2 weeks. No matter what the weather is. I just can't stand the dust, noise and smell after that. Most of the time the heat lamp goes with them and I just reduce the watage of the bulb to wean them off. Yours are fully feathered and are set to go.
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    Hatching out chicks with a broody hen

    Hi, as far as egg color of the offspring it's hard to say. When breeds are mixed like your rooster anything possible. Americans lay lots of colors, tending tword greenish. New hampshire reds lay brown eggs. Your Prairie bluebell egger is also a crossbreed between white leghorn and arauconas. So...
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    18 month old hens keep picking on 18 week olds.

    This sounds normal to me. It only looks cruel to us. I would suggest extra feeding and water stations so they have options. Put some clutter in your run so they can escape. Like limbs to fly up on, a kitchen chair laid on its side, a couple plastic milk crates to hop up on and hide behind. It...
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    One Proud Momma ❤️🥚🐣🐣

    Beautiful! I had an Isa brown go broody and hatch chicks. They supposedly had the broodyness breed out of them too! Caution with that big bowl of water. Chicks can drown in that real easily.
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    Hatching Chicks in an Elevated Coop

    Yes, the chicks will have difficulty negotiating the ramp. They will stay under the broody for a day or so, but she will get them out for food and water and start moving them around. I think leaving them to hatch where they are us a better option right now. I would move them to a ground cage...
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    Introducing myself

    Wow! Love your creations! Those builds are beautiful! Sounds like these girls might just worm their way into your heart ❤️. It happened to all of us. Welcome to BYC!
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    Transition to outside

    Mine get out of the house at 2 weeks, no matter what it's like outside. I have a walk in coop and just isolate a corner for them while they integrate. Sometimes the heat lamp goes too. I just can't stand the dust, smell and noise after 2 weeks.
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    poopy feet

    I have expierenced new chicks getting a buildup of hardened poop, mostly under their toenails. To me it mostly cleared itself up by putting them outside in a ground pen during the day or getting a larger brooder. Are yours crouded? How many chicks, and what size brooder? Once they start...
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