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  1. trinityfly

    Website doesn't display well on Safari

    I am using 5.1.2 as well. On the home page, on the right side of the postings list the words "settings" and whatever are overlapped. I have reduced the font, increased the font, reduced the zoom and increased the zoom to no avail
  2. trinityfly

    Miss the updating posts on the home page. Or have I

    Thanks for the website help all. I have found what I was looking for. This is such a great community
  3. trinityfly

    Miss the updating posts on the home page. Or have I

    Thanks all for the advice. I did find the new post listing. Maybe less convinient than the old site but much more complete. Now, I find that my user page no longer has any of the images I had posted. And... just where is our personal album of images?
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    Miss the updating posts on the home page. Or have I

    A couple of times each day I would bring up the BYC site and review the most recent post activity. These are what got me hooked. Is there a location on the new website that has this feature?
  5. trinityfly

    Website doesn't display well on Safari

    Letters, spaces often run together. Latest Safari still poor at displaying BYC Website
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    Color of a Roo's comb indicate anything in regards to dominance?

    We have 3 Bantam roosters that are 6 months old. "Dusty" is a black bantam with a dark comb, Fancy is a partridge bantam and is the largest bird with a dark comb as well, but Roy who has a red comb is the smallest and seems to be the dominant rooster. Roy acted like a rooster from the age of 3...
  7. trinityfly

    How do you use DE?

    I put DE every where. First thing in the nesting boxes after they have been cleaned. Spread around the floor of hen house and runs and all those nooks and corners that are hard to reach. It works! Keeps the mites at bay and reduces smell. You can pay way to much for the stuff at most chix supply...
  8. trinityfly

    Rooster with a stabbing issue!!!!

    When the spurs get crazy I just get out the dremel tool and saw them off just below the quick. Safer for me, family, pets and the other birds is an ornery roo is denied his weapons.
  9. trinityfly

    I Would Love to See Pictures of Your Set Up!

    I just love all the new constructions. Some are painfully cute. Our Hen house and Run are comprised of a Lean-to Hen House (10X10) and Run (10X14) at the rear of our old Barn. Outside of that is a fenced yard under tree cover (40X20), then a gate to a fenced 2 acre wood for the Chicken tribe to...
  10. trinityfly

    Prolapse cloaca?

    Not to much advice so far from BYC folks but an update is in order. We have kept the rear end of the little bird clean (using a damp q tip), then used a little neosporin and tried to push the "prolapse" back in. The little chick is looking much better now and the protrusion is now more in than...
  11. trinityfly

    Prolapse cloaca?

    Hi all! Last Wednesday we received 10 chicks from My Pet Chicken. All were in great shape and are growing well and fast. However, one little chick has a protruding cloaca and is not flourishing like the others. We have read up on the subject but most of the info is in regards to grown birds...
  12. trinityfly

    What's the name of your chicken coop? "Chicken" Hilton here

    "Fort Birdy" Wood frame lean to against a barn. Hardware cloth buried 12 inches into soils at borders. 2x4 14 guage fenceing with an over lay of chicken wire. 1/4 inch hardware cloth over all other fencing up 2 ft. The whole chicken house and run surrounded by 2x4 field fencing.
  13. trinityfly

    Free Rangers: Talk to me about pest management

    We live in the middle of a National Forest and on the edge of a designated Wilderness area. All kinds of chicken eating critters live here. I completely agree with some of the other commenters that a strong hen house and run (coop) is the first and best defense. Nothing goes in and out that I...
  14. trinityfly

    Chicken pastures complete. Pics on #19

    We keep about 20 chickens and they can free range on about an acre of fenced in forest. (Big Fir and Pine with some Oak). The forest floor is "duff" mostly fir, oak and pine tree droppings. The birds destroy most every plant that tries to get a foot hold on that acre, including young trees. Over...
  15. trinityfly

    Are certain breeds less susceptible to hawk attack?

    Lost a lovely 18 month old Lavender silkie (Madge) day before yesterday to a young Red Tail Hawk. Over the last 10 years have lost 4 or 5 birds (out of a flock of + or - 20)to hawk and eagle, rooster or no rooster. I have raised Cochin and Silkies of all color combos and it has been my...
  16. trinityfly

    How do you clean your egg shells?

    Hi, I have been raising chickens (silkies) for at least 10 years and have had added lovely free range, organic eggs to my diet. The other day I offered a dozen of these eggs to a new neighbor who asked if I had washed them. Well, yes I had. I said, the eggs was washed under cool running water...
  17. trinityfly

    Removing/trimming rooster spurs

    Use a portable dremel tool. It's sooooo easy and safe
  18. trinityfly

    What breed of dog is great at killing rats??

    This little gem is Tessa. 15 lbs of smooth hair fox terrier. She totaly ignores the chickens but she is a rats worst nightmare Oh yes, my avatar is Buzzer, a 12 lb. Mini Pin, he too would like to ignore the chickens but they pick on him. If a rat was a needle in a haystack Buzz could find...
  19. trinityfly

    Why have a rooster at all?

    We just lost our rooster and to my surprise the flock of hens seem to be doing just fine. In fact the hen house is down right calm. True they tend to hang about the house and run rather than head out into the free range but they do go out to do their chicken thing daily. In the past 10 years we...
  20. trinityfly

    If you have a dog.....

    My Avatar is Buzzer, a 13 lbs. minipin....... loves to seek prey and will get a little weird with little chicks but otherwise ignores the hens and stays away from the roo This is Tess, 15 lbs. a true farm dog always hunting for and will attempt to kill any possible chicken predator, including...
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