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Well, compadres, after having chickens for nine years, and never having to deal with bumblefoot once, it appears that my luck has run out. I noticed during cuddle time this week that one hen had the tell-tale black scab on her foot, and so I frantically checked the other birds to see two more...

I figured instead of going from thread to thread, I might as well post one super thread for everyone's favorite thread hijacker, EmTheFishLady. She's been struck with a serious case of pregnancy, and has some just brutal complications. As of tonight, she's in the hospital for the third time...

Hello and welcome to a new round of everyone's favorite gameshow, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CHICKEN! *cheesy theme song and swirling lights* Our contestant today is a six-week-old EE named Silver. He/She was sold in a feed store as a pullet, but that growing comb is giving me doubts. However...

Wheelchairs are boring. But they don't have to be when you've got BYC swag! So, with the big poultry show coming up next week, I was figuring that I'd put one of these epic bumper stickers on my chair, so that all my BYC peeps can find me at the show! But which one? From top to bottom, 1-2-3...

Howdy, everyone! So I'm pretty sure both of these guys are roosters, but i'm just looking for a second opinion. They were sold at the store as girls, but we all know how unreliable hatchery sexing is, right? Anyway, they act like roosters, bumping chests and even fighting on occasion. The GLW is...

Oh gosh, it's already been this long! Eep! I learned all about chickens here, I met my best friend here (eenie114, the coolest person ever in existence world without end amen) and I've grown up on here. Thank you, BYC world, for always being so open and helpful with all of my chicken questions...

I've had bantam ducks (calls) for years (or did until last fall, when the first wave of coyote attacks wiped out my duckies!) but now that I have built a predator-proof barn of impenetrable impenetrability, I would like to get more ducks and I would like to get bigger ducks. I've never had the...

A few days ago, some animals (either two large stray dogs that have been wandering our five-acre patch of wilderness or a pack of coyotes) killed all 12 of my chickens. They just tore them apart, didn't even eat them all, just dismembered them. We don't have a gun yet (yay background checks from...

Woke up this lovely easter morning to my brother crying that coyotes had jumped the fence around my yard and dug under the wall of the coop, and killed all 12 (six adults, six 3-week-olds on their first night outside) of my chickens. Absolute carnage inside the coop… they didn't even eat most of...

I've built three coops in the past eight years of owning chickens, each one a little better than the last, and I've always loved getting help from the knowledgeable folks here! My latest coop is two years old, and it has a few problems (not tall enough to accommodate my 5'11" frame, a bit...

Two of the nicest, smartest, most avuncular BYCers are celebrating birthdays! Not sure how old they are (tentative estimates put their ages around 3.7 million years) To Sourland, the Broody Magician, and Spookwriter, our resident ghost, best wishes and tons of blessings today and in the next...

These are day-olds that just hatched from a black cochin mom and a white cochin dad. I've had blue babies before, and these are a little light IMO. And they have white splotches. Any help would be great!

My six-month-old mallard/call/something hen is spending most of her days in her big nestbox, moving hay around, shedding a few feathers, and not going into her water as much as her drake. Are ducks like chickens in that when a hen is ready to lay, she hangs out in a nestbox? Thanks in advance! :)

Today is the day, four years ago, that a stupid little me wandered on here because she was wondering why her birds weren't laying well (my problem was that I was feeding scratch, not layer.) Four years and dozens of chickens and bunches of new friends later, BYC is my favorite site. I've learned...

I'm planning on buying eggs soon, but the USPS main office is closed here in Tucson due to money issues. No more packages are going through this office where, in the past, I had to pick up shipped eggs. Is there a reason more people don't use the cheaper alternatives of FedEx or UPS? Those might...

Hello! Well, I did it again. A year after my call drake was taken by a coyote, a friend gave me a pair of mallard/call crosses. They were hatched in October. My question is, when do they start laying? I'm a bit of duck noob, but I got them so that I could learn more about them, as I want to be a...

This lovely hen was sold to me as an three-week-old ameraucana rooster by a lovely old lady who said "he" was purebred but didn't know much else. It's been over a year since then, and she lays a lovely blue egg. I'm just wondering if she really is a real color, or just another EE. Thanks! (so...

A few months ago, I posted about my pregnant sister. Well, we are weeks away from her due date, and she has a massive ovarian cyst that is causing equally massive pain. The cyst is pressing on the baby, so she is being induced early, in 10 days. She will be 39 weeks along, though the baby is...

Bird is a seven-month old Cochin/marans cross. She weighs about three pounds. She has a very swollen eye area, and a lot of liquids coming from the eye. Swelling feels liquidy, like a water balloon. She is still eating, and, though she is not as active as usual, she can walk fine. We do have...

In the Middle Ages, people believed that roosters, instead of crowing the usual "cock-a-doodle-do," would crow "Christus Natus Est," (Christ is born) on Christmas morning. :love Whether you're celebrating the birth of a savior, a Festival of Lights and hope, or simply your cultural identity...