We have 8 SPR cockerels for sale. Unfortunately we ended up with 8 cockerels out of 10 chicks and we are in the city limits so these guys have to go. They are from Dick Horstman in Pennsylvania and so are from show quality lines. Not hatchery chicks. They were hatched May 14, 2013. About 5+...
Hi BYCer's, in the last winter we have developed a rat problem under our small chicken coop. We keep putting bait out (out of chickens reach of course) in their tunnels and under the coop. We have only seen two dead rats. I read an article that said the rats would be more likely to eat the...
Okay sorry to yell HELP, but I don't know what I should do. I received 19 shipped eggs, 7 were broken, and there is yolk every where. I wiped them off, best I could. Should I wash them? Or leave them alone? I don't know if they will incubate well with a coating of yolk on the outside. Any...
Hi BYC'ers we have been treating our two week old chicks for coccidia with Corid, and it appears to have worked great, we are on our sixth day of treatment and the most of the chicks have tripled in size, we still are losing the random week or small chick though. So far we have lost 12 out of...
Hi all just as the title says, we have a Black Spanish that is about 12 weeks old and we are new to turkeys, we have three. A Chocolate, a Narraganset (sp?) and the Black Spanish. About 3 to 4 days ago we noticed that the Black looked to be limping or stiff maybe in his gait. Fast forward to...
Hi all, my daughters beloved duck Popcorn a drake Rouen was attacked by an Eagle this morning. Our little flock of ducks were enjoying the pouring Western Washington rain in the backyard this morning when I heard a commotion, the way they were quacking and trying to fly off I thought "Coyote"...
Hi everyone! I felt the need to show off these little cuties, thank you for indulging me! We are new to ducks, these are our first. We ordered them from Metzer's and they look great, full of energy and running around like crazy. As you will see in the first pic they were jumping out of the...
Hi all, we started out with six chicks last spring and now have six full grown beautiful chickens (so we must have done something right!). We decided this year after much research that we would like to try our hand at ducks. We have six ducks coming on April 4th (one Welsh Harlequin, one white...
Hi thank you in advance for your opinions and advice. Here is the story. We have six laying hens (well only five lay and that is the problem). We purchased them as 3 day olds on April 1, 2011. We have three barred rocks and three EE's. Two of the barred rocks and all three of the EE's lay...
I have seen a couple of posts with comments about people not throwing out eggs and eating them after worming their chickens. I am curious as to how many just continue to eat them. We just wormed with Valbazen which I believe is used in humans also and I am wondering how much of the 1/2cc or...
Hi BYCer's, we have a BLRW that is at the bottom of the pecking order and I am concerned going into winter that she is to thin. I think the other more dominant hens are chasing her off the food. I am considering giving her some grain free 95% protein canned cat food maybe once or twice a day...
Hi all, a while back I saw the neatest egg storage. It was a metal spiral that the eggs rotated down so you could put new eggs in the top and use the oldest eggs first from the bottom. I have searched and searched and can not find the post or anything like it on the web. Does anyone remember...
Hi everyone, I am a new chicken owner and I have a question regarding soft, brittle, and jello eggs. Three of our chickens started to lay I would say about 1 month ago. We were getting a green, blue and brown egg every other day, now almost everyday. These eggs were extremely hard and perfectly...
Hi, I am a new chicken owner and trying to find the best quality food for the best price. We are somewhat limited on whats available in our area. We of course have Purina and Organic Pride (which I am using right now although not happy that the first two ingredients are corn and soy). I was...
Hi, a while back I saw a pic of a coop that was soooo cute, it had plaques/signs with the chickens names on them hanging on the run and I would like to do a project with my daughter and make something similar to this. I was hoping someone remebered or knew whos coop this was so we could get...
Hi, we have 3 BR's and 3 EE's. All are about to turn 21 weeks and we have yet to see a single egg...We thought we heard an egg song about two weeks ago, but alas no eggs. What is the average egg laying age for these breeds? Will it be soon? Thanks in advance for any help.
Hi all, we have eight chickens 3 BR's, 3 EE's all 18 weeks and 2 BLR's that are 14 weeks. From reading previous posts I understand that I should leave all the girls on grower (we use Scratch and Peck no soy/corn grower) until all are of laying age, please correct me if I misunderstood. With the...