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I just bought a house in Vancouver, WA and wanted to know how weightily I should take the CC&Rs for my new property. It was written in 1989 and says several restrictions on animals (domestic and livestock) which seem ridiculous and very dated. The City of Vancouver is chicken friendly and I'm...

Meet Franklin, my little call duck buddy! Franklin is a very special little duck. I had been wanting call ducks for years but never dived in, until a friend of mine asked me to experiment with some eggs he'd gotten and place them under my broody duck. Unfortunately they were already 10 days...

I have eggs from my Welsh Harlequin flock for sale. $30 a doz plus shipping. My birds have taken Best of Variety, Best of Bree, and Reserve Champion Light Duck at shows around the West Coast. Payment through Paypal only. Shipping will be calculated and tracking number sent once payment is...

I need some serious help here. Do those of you with waterfowl and chickens keep your pens far from one another? I am having an epidemic of bumblefoot and I'm trying to figure out what the heck is causing it. the only thing I can think of is that the duck run is right next to the chicken run, and...

So during one of my live hatch cam sessions I managed to record something freaking adorable. I turned it into a short video clip! [VIDEO]

I am in need of some advice. I am building up a breeding flock and introductions are NOT going as smoothly as I thought they would. I have my 4 original females, and I've added a drake/duck pair as well as an older trio(drake/2 ducks). I need some advice on how to go about introducing these...

I am smitten with this little dude I hatched in May. His name is Wally aka Walnut and he is a frizzled silkied serama weighing it at 6-7oz as of 13 weeks old. He is super adorable and super friendly and thinks he is a pretty macho rooster. I got an ADORABLE video of him joining a crowing contest...

Ok, so my "boy" Jasper is 3 weeks old now. When he hatched I thought he was obviously a boy, but since he was the only one to hatch I didn't have any comparison. I have 3 others that are 1 week younger and the boys and girls were VERY obvious in that bunch. I sold the 5 boys I got and kept the 3...

This little bugger has been giving me the run around all along. SUPER friendly baby. Loves to hop onto my arm! I thought roo from the very beginning, and a local gal vent sexed it as male at 2 weeks old. However, it is part of a BBS cuckoo orp project and has NO barring on the splash feathers...

This is a thread for all hatching taking place in the month of May! Feel free to join us!!! I will be getting my eggs on the 27th, but will be setting 1 dozen bantam BR, 6 RIR, 6 BR, 6 AM, 6 Wellies, and 12+ serama!

I have 39 eggs due throughout the weekend, and woke up to 3 early pippers! If you'd like to stop by and watch, feel free :). Updates will be posted as we have action! Here's the cam link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kaitlynhokanson3 This is what's in the bator! And the names to cheer...

I am counting my blessings this afternoon. Today I let the chickens out and decided I wanted to sit outside and read a book and watch the banties so they could have some outside time. All of a sudden I heard all the chickens squawking and flapping so I got up and started running over there. I...

I have a hen who is currently separated for broody-breaking, and when I was looking at her today (she's pretty skittish) I noticed tiny, grey circles in the middle of her pupils. They are pin-point, unfilled circles. I thought it was a reflection on her eye but they are in both eyes. I can...

I have 11 bantam chicks in my brooder with the Ecoglow 50. They are about 2 weeks old now and are feathering out slowly it seems. They only have their wing feathers, and a few of them are getting their first tail feathers. Has anyone had experience with chicks feathering slowly under the...

Ok so I'm stumped. One of my sizzle chicks is showing some bizarre symptoms of what I think is an inner ear infection. It has started flicking its head sideways (skull tilting side to side) occasionally, usually after shaking its head. It sounds a little congested when it chirps and the feed...

This is for anyone hatching during the month of April! I have 52 eggs dur April 6th: 6 Basque 10 Basque mix 12 Barred Orps 12 JG 12 Dark Cornish!

I start off all of my hatched chicks on what I call "chick baby food", which is just their crumbles make into mush with water. Anyway, the youngest babies in there are 5 days old now and one of them does NOT want to eat the crumbles. I've started weaning them off the baby food and trying to get...

This last hatch was not so good...6/13 with most of the losses being due to being in the wrong position. Is there a way to decrease the odds of having mispositioned chicks? I incubated, turned, and hatched in cartons. Temp was 99.5 +/- 1 degree, humidity was 35-43% throughout incubation and...

I need help on what to do with one of my bantam BR eggs. I thought it was dead today, so I peeled back a pinky-tip sized hole into the air cell to look for signs of life. Well, there was a beak! The chick had pipped internally and was breathing. I quickly covered the top of the egg with a...

I had eggs due the 8th and 10th. Well I needed to care for one of the chicks, so while I was in the steamy bathroom (humidity was 85% in the bathroom) I candled the eggs due tomorrow and found that all but 1 had HUGE air cells, like half the egg. I saw movement within the aircells, like the...