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Hey pals! I am thinking of getting a Maylay or Shamo rooster to add to my flock for a brave protector. I have about 35 hens and one rooster already. I know I could handle adding any other rooster breed into the flock, but know nothing about these guys. If I got it as a chick, would it grow to...

I know I know... This is going to sound stupid, but I can not kill mice. I killed one of my chickens once and it gave me nightmares for months...Im a wuss. I cant kill anything. The problem is that now our coop is OVERRUN with mice and not one of my girls has turned out to be a mouse killer...

I dont understand why or how this happened! My birds are generally very mellow with one another aside from head pecking but nothing major. Ive always prided myself in how painlessly they allow newbies into the flock. That being said I reintroduced a healing bird back into the flock today. She...

I have a skittish barnevleder who seems to be in the final stages of battling roundworm . Shes lost every bit of meat on her body and since shes not extraordinarily friendly she didnt let it be shown until it was too late. I have her separated in the house and last night I gave her 1/4 tsp of...

I have a friend who runs a local food co-operative here in town. She came to me last night with an interesting question... She went to do a home check on some possible egg suppliers just outside of town. She said they seemed nice but there was something that was troubling her about the hens. She...

I have an almost two day old chick who seems to be havig a hard time thriving. Shes not running around much or being as active as her clutchmate. I decided to giver her a drop of poly-vi-sol to get her going, and she immediatly began gagging and sneezing. I understand she may have inhaled some...

One of my hens got sick and as a precaution i put the entire flock on anti-biotics. We wanted to save as many eggs as possible before we did this because we know we wont be able to eat them for a while. Unfortunately, we were in a hurry last night and forgot to collect eggs. we started the flock...

Today I noticed that my small frizzled cochin hen was gasping for air. I went to assist her and saw that her nostrils were clogged causing her to breath through her mouth in almost yawning motions. I immediately removed her from the flock and set her up in a pen alone in the front yard. She...

So after we shut off our cable a few weeks ago I found myself in major need of a real hobby. For about a year Ive thought it would be fun to have portraits of all of my girls, however never picked up a paintbrush in my life and didnt think Id be able to have something I could be proud of. Not to...

I hear these guys are sex linked, but since its my only one I have no comparison for it. Ive done tons of searches to see what they look like as males and what they look like as females when they hatch but this one seems to be somewhere in-between, go figure, haha. I KNOW there are some...

If my non-bearded showgirl is an EMU. Poor ol' man! I gave him some eggs. It's the least I could do after the whole "goat in heat, me chasing goat at 6 am in nothing but a bathrobe and golashes and towel on head as she screamed at the top of her lungs while the neighbor watched from upstairs...

When the BF and I moved into a place with a bigger yard, we bought a little 7x 3 coop but promised the girls that eventually they'd get better digs. Well here we have it! Got a great deal on a rubbermaid shed and I am beyond excited to finally have something I can stand up in, clean easily...

So we went ahead and made the plunge! Our goats are not as friendly and sociable as we hoped they would be and dont seem to be coming around. so we had two options- sell them and start over or breed the doe and hand raise the kids from the start. Well this morning my doe, Darby woke up the...

As someone who has had chickens long enough now to tell the sex of a chick at this age, i would be pretty confident that these were both roosters. But because they both look very different to me, i was hoping to get some input from people who have actually raised sultan chicks before... chick...

So I freerange my birds in my backyard, which happens to be such a desert that weeds dont even bother to show their faces. Its dirt dirt and more dirt. In the spring we get littl bits of grass but they dont last long. My question here is what can i do with my yard that can keep the chickens...

I have been seeing so many rants lately about craigslist that i was just hoping to offer a new point of view to the people who are sick of being flaked on/ not treated professionally/ or low balled. Craigslist is a free website with listings anywhere from cars, to JUNK, to personal ads, to...

So my nigerian dwarves are now one year old and are still very skittish and shy of us. We really wanted them as pets and even through the best of our efforts we cannot get them to trust us. We watch them through the back window. they play and leap of the deck and have so much fun. they are...

Hope youre day is mega super spectacular, Genny! You deserve it!

Our cute lil town had our annual poultry show today... heres some pics!!!

I just thought I would share this as i feel it is really an incredible picture. unfortunately we are receiving INCREDIBLY high winds today and had through the night giving containment a 0%chance. Many people have lost their homes, its so, so sad