Hi y'all. So, I have talked about this chicken before. Her name is Hope and as a day old chick, her mother abandoned her and the rest of the flock was trying to peck her to death. Now she is doing much better and almost full grown, but has another problem. My dad, trying to be helpful, clipped...
Hi everyone, I started this thread because I have a cat and he does some crazy things and I was wondering what YOUR cat does. So everyone, feel free to share your funny/annoying/crazy/silly/weird/frustrating/grumpy/cute/scary/anything stories of your cats!
Hi everyone, so I have this one chick I'm pretty worried about. Her name is Joy, and the chick the same age as her is Hope. Now, Hope and Joy are the youngest in our flock as they are five months old and our nesting boxes are at the top part of the coop, with a ramp leading up to them. They're...
Hi everyone, I have a 5 month old silkie rooster that is crowing frequently (to say the least). We can't find anyone who would want him and I don't want to just drop him off at some animal shelter so I'm thinking of some solutions. I've heard of something called a "crow muffler" and I'm not sure...
Hi y'all! This thread is fully dedicated to telling stories of your pets (funny, embarrassing, and anything else)!
I'll start, we once had a yellow lab that was crazy, to say the least, and she was my responsibility. I had to watch her ALL THE TIME so when I go out for a bathroom break and come...
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is any way to stop my chickens from flying over their gate and into our garden, but without clipping their wings because they are used for showing. Putting them somewhere with a roof is also out of the question because their run is too big.
Any suggestions...
Hi everyone! I know yaks aren't too common, but I thought there must be other yak owners on BYC! So this is a thread where you can share pictures and talk all you want about your yaks!
I'll start! I have a herd of 7 yaks on my friends' 40 acres. We have one native, two native trims, two royals...
So my cinnamon queen pullet has this barking cough that sounds terrible! I felt her crop and it felt mushy with some little hard pieces in it(?), most likely from scratch, though I don't have much experiences with crops to know what they are supposed to feel like. It's hard to get it on video...
Hi everyone! I just wanted to start this thread because I know there are a bunch of people out there with crazy experiences with chickens, so I'm wondering-How old was your oldest chicken?
I have some fifteen week old chicks that I have tried to handle and have them turn out nice as much as possible, and they have hated me, yet I think I've found the secret to success!
A couple months ago, I got some mealworms to start a mealworm farm. It has taken a while, but we finally have...
Hi everyone, I got a couple chicks a couple months ago and one was meant to be a starlight green egger, but she looks more like our speckled sussex. Also, I think it's a pullet, but any information on that would also be great! Thanks!
Hi everyone! We just harvested a bunch fennel from our garden this year and are wondering if anyone had any recipes or ideas for what to do with it!
Thanks, and have a good day!
Hi everyone, so yesterday night we picked up a couple day old chick from a friend who mamma hen didn't accept and was just being pecked bare in the coop by the older hens, so he pulled her out and gave her to us. We are giving her medicated chick starter and electrolyte and vitamin water. She...
Hi everyone, I was just wondering if I should make some homemade electrolytes for my chickens. It is really hot where I am and I'm wondering if electrolytes might help.
Thank you and all help is appreciated!
P.S. If I should, does anyone have a recipe?
Hi everyone, right now I have a seven year old chickens that suddenly decided that she was going to lay eggs in the bottom of the coop. This is a problem because we have a lot of bedding in the bottom of the coop and the eggs usually end up getting buried for some time and then randomly showing...
Hi everyone, we have an eighteen week old cockerel that we need to move because he is getting quite noisy and the neighborhood doesn't allow roosters. We dropped him of at our cousins who have chickens, hoping that that would be a good forever home for him. We came back a little later to check...
Hi everyone i have no clue what to do! We were putting some mite dust on our chickens today and we saw this! What is going on? she looks great on top but when you look under there was this! We've had chickens forever and never seen this! Is she molting? Is it lice? A mite? A disease? Someone...
Hi everyone! I have a question about my six week old silkie, she is my first silkie ever. Whenever her feathers get wet (water gets knocked over, spills, etc.) her hairs part and then she has this bare spot with no feathers for a while. Her feathers will unpart after a bit, but I'm still...