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    Miss the updating posts on the home page. Or have I

    A couple of times each day I would bring up the BYC site and review the most recent post activity. These are what got me hooked. Is there a location on the new website that has this feature?
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    Website doesn't display well on Safari

    Letters, spaces often run together. Latest Safari still poor at displaying BYC Website
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    Color of a Roo's comb indicate anything in regards to dominance?

    We have 3 Bantam roosters that are 6 months old. "Dusty" is a black bantam with a dark comb, Fancy is a partridge bantam and is the largest bird with a dark comb as well, but Roy who has a red comb is the smallest and seems to be the dominant rooster. Roy acted like a rooster from the age of 3...
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    Prolapse cloaca?

    Hi all! Last Wednesday we received 10 chicks from My Pet Chicken. All were in great shape and are growing well and fast. However, one little chick has a protruding cloaca and is not flourishing like the others. We have read up on the subject but most of the info is in regards to grown birds...
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    How do you clean your egg shells?

    Hi, I have been raising chickens (silkies) for at least 10 years and have had added lovely free range, organic eggs to my diet. The other day I offered a dozen of these eggs to a new neighbor who asked if I had washed them. Well, yes I had. I said, the eggs was washed under cool running water...
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    Why have a rooster at all?

    We just lost our rooster and to my surprise the flock of hens seem to be doing just fine. In fact the hen house is down right calm. True they tend to hang about the house and run rather than head out into the free range but they do go out to do their chicken thing daily. In the past 10 years we...
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    Good by to Busy Body

    Had to put this old girl down yesterday. She could not walk, could not feed or drink. I just couldn't leave her to suffer, so it had to be done. Six lovely years with her but now she is no more. We called her Busy Body because she was a "hang around the coop" hen. At first we did not realize...
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    Trimming the Spurs - Advise please

    Some times the spurs on our Bantam Rooster get crazy long and curved. (Hens too) It interferes with the walking and can trip him up so we need to trim the spurs. Clipping seems to tend to shatter the spur so this time we are going to use a dremel tool with a cutoff disc.. Do any of you have any...
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    Eagle strikes again!

    Last year my wife had to go hand to hand with an eagle as it tried to drag one of our hens out of the field. That hen survived and the big raptor chased off, but now the eagle is back. Yesterday afternoon, about an hour before dusk we were down at the hen house to check on the chickens but when...
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    Good little hen losing all her feathers. Now gone

    I had to put down my "good little hen" that was losing all her feathers. This past week we had temps as low as 12 degrees F. Though nearly bald the little gal tried to keep up the usual hen schedule. Apparently ,besides her other problems winter took its tole on her. Tonight when I checked on...
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    Good little hen losing all her feathers. Help please

    Hi, I have a 4 yr hen among my flock (silkies) that has been losing feathers all over her body for the past year. At first thought it was just molting but now I doubt that is the problem. I dusted her with pyrethrum dust thinking it might be mite allergy but no changes. I keep the nest material...
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    Hen wants to beat up chicks - what?

    Hi, we have 7 Silkie chicks about 6 weeks old. They are really cute but one of the older hens seems like she would like to kill them. What"s up with that? The chicks hang with the 8 other silkies which includes a mellow Roo, no problem. But one hen (apparently a designated sitter) becomes...
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    Chicks from My Pet Chicken up and running

    Hello all, we recently purchased 10 day old Silkie Bantam chicks from “My Pet Chicken”, It was an interesting process that I would like to share with you. We found “My Pet Chicken” from a banner ad on the Back Yard Chickens. We ordered 10 Sexed Silkie Bantam chicks on line. Instructions for...
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    2 chicks out of 10 dead after 48 hrs.

    Hi all. Last wednesday we received 10 bantam silkies from My Pet Chicken. The seemed in good order when we picked them up from the post office. Once home the chicks went into our home made brooder and I took a digital image of them at that time. (I posted it here in this forum). By thursday we...
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    My Pet Chicken comes through - 10 New Silkies

    Hi all. A couple of weeks ago I contacted "My Pet Chicken" and ordered 10 Silkie chicks. They said that it would be mixed group of Silkie types and even though I have White Silkies that was ok with me. This company is the only one I found that would "sex" bantam chicks. After my last experience...
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    Old hens. How they change

    Hi all, I have a flock of White Silkies with one roo named Sarge. The Cock is about 5 years old but some of the hens are pushing 7-8 years. They all seem healthy right now but I have noticed that we are just not getting the number of eggs that we used to get. Right now, near the end of summer...
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    Hello all from the toolies of Northern Calif

    Hi all, we have a few acres and a cabin that we love in the middle of the Shasta/Trinity National Forest. We have been raising White Silkies for the past 10 years. We have had other color silkies and a number of Cochin hens. The non-white silkies have not survived nor did the Cochin. Most of the...
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    Ramp for Chickens

    Hi all, we raise white silkies. I changed up my chicken house this spring. I added a small platform to act as a perch about 21/2 feet from the floor of the chicken house and let the birds jump stacked plastic milk crates to get up to the perch. I noticed that some chickens would use the perch...
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