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  1. ChickenFajita6

    SHOW ME YOUR WALK IN COOPS!

    We have a walk in coop. Excuse these older photos, this is before we finished trimming out the roof line/façade on front. We have also run electricity out to it instead of extension cords that we were using. They have a fan mounted inside (you can kind of see it through the upper right window)...
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    Is having a big chicken coop okay for small flock?

    People tell me my coop is too big for my flock of 7, but honestly they are thrilled every time I open the door and give them the full freedom of the backyard. So yes, bigger is always better.
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    Announcement 2019 Calendar is Available NOW!!

    We got ours today!! Miss Fajita's ego is bigger than ever, we may have to expand the coop for her. :lol:
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    Announcement 2019 Calendar is Available NOW!!

    That is my little chicken Fajita (you can see her baby pic over there as my avatar). She is fabulous and she knows it, lol.
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    Egg Bound or peritonitis??

    Oh also - poop is very watery. Like shooting out watery diarrhea. I've seen her go a couple times.
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    Egg Bound or peritonitis??

    The vet said he could do an xray but he felt like he would have felt something and didn't. So I asked him, ok if we do an xray and she IS egg bound then what? He said she would need surgery. I don't have the money for that. :(
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    Egg Bound or peritonitis??

    I am a loss here and hoping I can get some advice. Tuesday afternoon I noticed a problem with one of my chickens. From what I was seeing of her behavior cross referenced with searching online, I strongly suspected she was egg bound. So that night I gave her a long soak in a warm bath. I tried...
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    Egg Bound or peritonitis??

    The board completely hung up and posted this twice, don't know how to delete
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    Bumblefoot, Baytril, and about to blow my top

    I may have to take her to the vet school, they do have avian doctors there but it is soooooo expensive. I worked there for years, wish I still had an employee discount. I don't think I'd ever go back to the vet I saw today - it was not an experience I'd recommend to anyone (and I didn't even...
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    Bumblefoot, Baytril, and about to blow my top

    Not unless I have someone else here to catch her and hold her, and I don't. We have been cleaning and medicating their feet every other day for 2 weeks, so when we bring her in for the next cleaning I'll get some. I just took these while she was wandering around, the other girl with bad feet is...
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    Bumblefoot, Baytril, and about to blow my top

    I agree that it does too! And when he explained to me that he thought that it was just likely foot trauma, from landing hard, stepping on something, etc, I said "well isn't that usually what causes bumblefoot? an injury that gets infected?" and he just said "yes but there's no bumble so it's not...
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    Bumblefoot, Baytril, and about to blow my top

    I'm not sure I agree that there is no pus...her little feet look like they want to pop. I just wish the vet had been even a little bit informative with what he wanted to prescribe them, especially before giving it to them without me even knowing the name. I'm reading some things that say any...
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    Bumblefoot, Baytril, and about to blow my top

    So several of my girls seemed to be having foot issues lately, that from digging around online seemed to point to bumblefoot. I was able to follow advice from posts here and do the Epsom salt soak, scrape the scab, squeeze out the nastiness, medicate and wrap. This has been ongoing for a couple...
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    Ended 2019 BYC Calendar - We Need Your Pictures!

    For your October needs? lol!
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    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    Yes, they are good little hiders! We thought we lost one several months ago, and then we found her hiding between our bbq pit and the house, she was under the tarp and really squeezed in between it and the wall. No idea what spooked her and sent her back there.
  16. ChickenFajita6

    Post pictures of your coop!!

    This is where ours is now - still some changes to be made to their chicken yard in the future though! (we did finish trimming the top out, these pics are a couple months old)
  17. ChickenFajita6

    Ended Contest #7 Cutest Baby Fowl - 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    Me waiting....and wishing I'd win so I have an excuse to add new baby chicks to the family, lol.
  18. ChickenFajita6

    Ended Contest #7 Cutest Baby Fowl - 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    Oh I hope I qualify - we just peep by with the 1 year rule. I got my girls on 3/18/17, so these photos are just hitting the 1 year mark! And narrowing it down to 2 is so hard because I loved every little detail of them all at that cute baby stage! So here we go - my avatar and favored Faverolle...
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    one year later - help with coop redesign for frostbite

    We are similar. I am in the south, we normally have mild winters but had a few bitter freezes this year, including snow - twice!! We put a heat lamp in the coop aimed at the roost bar everyone sleeps on (it was only about 2' away from them). We also sealed up all the other openings that are...
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    New chicken owners blindly building a coop & run

    Well of course, but I wasn't offering advice. Just sharing our own little chicken shack.
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