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    Would love to see your feed/supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

    They're on wheels so no, it's no annoyance at all. We only pull them out about once a week. The feeders are huge 5-gallon PVC port feeders. Perhaps you could put yours on a -- I forget what it's called, like a skateboard...a board with wheels.
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    Size for poop board

    Here I thought this was going to be another "zombie thread." Way to go, @PetesChicks, for keeping up with your thread after it fell asleep for 9 years! :highfive:
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    Would love to see your feed/supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

    Ahh, okay. Well, these are kept in the garden shed. Hubby built shelves so these could go underneath of the bottom shelf.
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    Mystery Illness - Vet Couldn’t Diagnose!!

    I had a silkie pullet just 10 months old that started acting like this. She had been laying for a short while. In addition to yours, she had swelling on both sides of her vent in a large area the size of the palm of my hands, and it was warmer to the touch. She was going downhill fast. The...
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    Would love to see your feed/supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

    Actually, I like yours! We have dog food bins that seal, but they only hold 30#. A 50# bag we mix and split between two of them lasts nearly two weeks. They're opaque though so you can see how much is left. These are on wheels so make it nice when we bring them into our kitchen. We mix...
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    Help: soft shell eggs - I think I may have made things worse!

    I raise/breed silkies and every time the pullets start laying I may get a soft shell/no shell egg or two. Even from one of my old bats I got one a couple of months ago. That one left hers in the yard, and she's six years old! They have oyster shell and free range so get plenty of calcium. It...
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Incubator mk2 (with nichrome wire heater and auto turner)'

    Good incubator idea with using various parts from a junked out computer, glitter ball, and other repurposed things. I would need a bit more explanation and illustration though. I'm not getting how the turner worked as that plastic egg holder looks like they'd stay stationary there. Did it...
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Caruncles, Combs and Wattles: The Features, Functions and Healthcare'

    A very informative article showing and explaning comb types.
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Bumblefoot in your Flock'

    A good resource for advanced bumblefoot. It's mentioned if you find minor bumblefoot to basically wait until it gets worse. Please don't. There are ways to treat it early on using drawing salves like PRID and other methods you can find within BYC. If your bird's case is well beyond early...
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Quick Guide to Treating Egg Binding'

    Good ideas if you think your hen is egg-bound. Calcium given is best if it is around 300 mg calcium citrate + D3, and can be given to the hens whole. Calcium citrate is the type of calcium that works the fastest. Open her beak and pop it in. They eat much larger things than this. As one...
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Waterer Design for Small Flock'

    This looks like a great idea! There's a material list here and pretty good explanation and photos to go with it should anyone want to try it. I like it but we use nipple buckets here.
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    Comment by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Chickens and Snow'

    We have silkies, and yes, snow is like lava every year for about one day, then they get used to it. If you shovel, they will come! If there's more snow on the paths, we put split logs on their paths so they can jump up and get out of the snow for a bit.
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    Review by 'Debbie292d' in article 'Chickens and Snow'

    Very informational with some great ideas to keep them safe and happy!
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    Chicken ate my earring...what do I do?

    If you scroll up just a bit, you'll see @U_Stormcrow explained and has a good idea of how yours will turn out. She should be fine, but your earring probably won't be.
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    Chicken swallowed a bolt

    Generally, what goes in, can come out. At least the bright side is that this isn't a nail. There's a possibility she can pass this. I'd withdraw feed so that her digestive system works on getting this out. You could give a little bit of frozen coconut oil, so that you don't have to mix it in...
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    New Member needs help, please.

    Are their faces scaly? From what I can tell from the photo, that's Scaly Face Mites (SFM). Those you saw are different. They may have two different types. Permethrin won't kill SLM/SFM. I would put some vaseline on their faces a couple of times a day, every other day for three days. like...
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    Sick chick help!

    Sorry about your hen. :hugs What are the supplements you gave her? I'd be giving her B-Complex. If you have some of those, she could have 1/4 of one of them per day. Those B vitamins help her muscles she might have injured. As long as she's eating her crumbles, I'd slow down a little bit...
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    Introducing myself

    Hiya, Rosemarie, and welcome to BYC! :frow You may want to sometime check out our Learning Center for articles our members wrote about caring for chickens. Something there may help you down the road. If you have any pictures of yours, we'd love to see! We're glad you're here!
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    Open Contest Feathered Days of Autumn, a Text-to-Image Contest—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    These are so cool! ❤️ That last one looks like a realistic painting we could hang on the wall. I didn't understand when I made mine in Bing, what that Dall-e that comes up is. Do they have an explainer in there on what that code does, or do you know?
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    Debbie's Silkies

    Here are the ones from the shed last night. It's extremely windy here so they don't want to come out of their pen. I couldn't get all of the babies as the wind is beating the greenhouse tarp and scaring them so most are staying in the hutches. When it's nicer out, they all free-range...
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