Hello Bay Area folks!
I have 3 young roosters in need of a new home. One Golden laced Wyandotte and two Delaware Heritage breed, all hatched at the end of March and hand-raised. They've just started crowing in the last few weeks. They're well socialized with people, kids, dogs & cats. I'm...
I have to think that there's already a thread on this topic, but I haven't been able to find it.
If anyone knows of one, please paste a link. (I haven't completely figured out the search features here)
We had two boys who grew up with the hens (the chicks were sold to us "sexed" but someone...
I was just wondering if there are any other python owners here.
I've got a 4 year old Carpet Python, and I usually feed him live rats, but lately he's been getting quite sloppy on the kills.
I don't mind feeding him live animals, but I don't want them to suffer for 2-3 minutes while he figures...
Three young roosters need to find new homes: Roy, Little Wing, and Ziff (Ziff might be a CreveCoeur or a black polish... not really sure)
I bought them at 1-day-old from a local feed store and raised them in my house with 11 other chicks.
They transitioned to the outdoors over the Winter...
So... I raise chickens with my neighbors is this strange, sort of communal set up.
One of my neighbors is the official "Chicken Lady" because she's been doing this longest, and I usually take her advice on everything chicken-related.
However... We need to build several more nesting boxes and...
Three young roosters need to find new homes: Roy, Little Wing, and Ziff
(The images below are from a couple of months ago)
All three are crested. Two are Polish (brown, black, irridescent), and one is of unknown breed (black, irridescent).
I bought them at 1-day-old from a local feed store...
Happy 2011 Everybody!
I'm not the most tech-savvy BYC member, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't much know what I'm doing with this whole "urban farming" thing; but I've so enjoyed this site and all of the informative threads, especially "what NOT to do when building your coop," that I...
About a month ago, my neighbor's chicken laid what looked like a burnt egg. It was a smokey mahogany color, and very rough and bumpy.
Yesterday morning, I found an egg and the insides (no shell or membrane) of a second egg together on the floor under the roost, not in the nest. The yolk of the...
Long story short: one of my girls got trapped under an upturned tupperware and I wasn't found for TWO WHOLE DAYS!
When we got her out she was soaked (in H2O from her own breath?), caked with poo, and unquenchably thirsty. I had to take the food and water out of the brooder eventually because I...
Hi,
I'm new.
You'll probably be seeing very little from me; I am busy reading everything on this site and taking notes.
My neighbors and I are renters, but we share yard space, and collectively own 20 chickens.
We're building a new hen-house and run, and BYC has been a great source of ideas...