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    Open Contest Feathered Days of Autumn, a Text-to-Image Contest—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Amazing how realistic these can look! Beautiful!
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    New Member Intro :)

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow Awe, pretty rooster you have! We have a Learning Center I think would be very helpful for you. We're glad you're here!
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    30 chickens 1 rooster, 29 hens all bantams disappeared at once

    Sorry for your loss. :hugs We've got Blink cameras that go quite a distance from our home and would have caught whatever that was in a great video about 10 seconds long for each time it got triggered. Deer cams work well also. Our two dogs and two cats do a great job too. Black Friday...
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    Fermenting Feed

    We ferment, and have both ducks and chickens, but it isn't a meal per se. You could ferment half of that with half feed and bring up its nutritional value. What we ferment here is 1/2 Kalmbach's Henhouse Reserve (a layer feed) 1/4 hard red winter wheat, 1/4 whole oats, a little bit of chia...
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    Location

    There's a New Hampshire thread in case you're interested. It's not too lively but perhaps you could change that. :)
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    Did I get a bad Silkie??

    She looks good! You did a good job with her! She's gorgeous!
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    Help knowing the difference between a hen and rooster

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow It looks like you got your answer! They're sure pretty! If down the road you have questions again, we've got a What Breed/Gender is This forum you can post in. We're glad you're here!
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    35°F, humidity 85%. 51°F predicted high!
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    Happy Birthday! 🎂

    Happy Birthday! 🎂
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    New member

    I've had hens do that.
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    New member

    He wouldn't know the difference. They don't taste any different, and half the time, many folks have a hard time telling by looking at it. It's that pale white spot that's already on the egg yolk that gets a tiny pale white ring around it if it's fertilized.
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    BYC's 17th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along—2026

    I'm working on breeding pens for 2026, so I'll see what I drum up. ☺️
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    My pullet is acting lethargic.

    Just because she hasn't laid doesn't mean she doesn't have reproductive issues, as that could be why she hasn't laid yet. Although if she's a purebred silkie, which by all appearances to me she is, 6 months is the earliest I've ever had any start laying; and that was a rarity. It's usually...
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    Something eats chicken feed and leaves wet lumps of it behind...

    We don't have armadillo here, and here, an oppossum is just a little ferret-type animal, nothing I'd ever call "big." If I'd seen that and how you describe it, it'd be a raccoon.
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    Not quite new!

    Hiya, Susan, and welcome to BYC! :frow You could check in our Buy/Sell/Rehome forum and see if there's anything near you. I'd also check your local/state poultry groups on Facebook. Even Craigslist may have something. Be careful though and don't pay a dime for anything until you have it as...
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    Hello from Arkansas

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow Many of us were "lurkers" before we joined too. You're here now, that's what counts, and we're glad you are!
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    Ammonia issue in the coop

    Here's the nipples for like a 5-gallon bucket. We also put them in a Tupperwear cereal container too for younger ones. It just has to be rigid. This is just in there. They can't use horizontal ones until they're about 3 weeks old.
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    Ammonia issue in the coop

    Your Nutri-Drench is fine. Poultry Cell has iron in it, and Nutri-Drench doesn't, but it's still fine.
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    Fall chicks in Montana

    What we do is just grow them out. Hubby made us pens we found on Wayfair, reinforced them with 1/2" hardware cloth, and a doghouse, shed, dogbox at one end for their "coop." (There are three of them.) In there, we put a Cozy Coop radiant heater on a thermal cube, so it shuts off when it...
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    Ammonia issue in the coop

    I would just clean everything out, put down the horse bedding pellets, and be done with it. With the limited ventilation and high humidity we have here, they handle both. Sand, like you said, gets wet, and it sits there until it dries. We put down about 2-3" of pellets and change them out...
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