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A silver-spangled Hamburg pullet. Big, dark, soulful eyes, sweet as can be, loves to be cuddled. She batts her eyelashes at you when you coo at her. Sigh.

Hi y'all, I bought a pretty twelve week old Gold Comet about two weeks ago. About a week ago she began showing blood in her stool. It seems that she was raised on organic feed and had never been on the dirt before, so I suspected Coccidiosis and tracked down the only bottle of Corid in the...

Today Mikey and I went out to Castitas Springs, CA and got a Red Star pullet for ten dollars from Blue Hill Farms. Kim is a lovely woman with a very nice little farm, with gorgeous d'Uccles, Spitzhauben, Sussex, Silkies, Delawares, and more. The pullet is a little sweetie. She can't go in...

Hi all, In our small rural pocket (about 350 homes) in the middle of Simi Valley, we still enjoy the right to keep livestock, including chickens. However, in their twenty-year revision of the City's General Plan, the local Planning Commission had recommended our neighborhood for rezoning to...

Hi all, I took a look at the chickens available at the animal shelter today, and there's a Blue Andalusian rooster there. He looks pretty to me, but I can't keep roosters. Ventura County, CA. They have a website.

Today when I had Blanche on my lap, she just cuddled right up and gave me a few little purrs. I mean it, she purred. She stretches her chicken neck out and puts her little chicken head on my shoulder and closes her eyes when I smooch the top of her head and then she purrs. I never thought I...

Hi chicken lovers, I got my first issue of English Garden Magazine today, and they had TWO (count 'em) articles with chickens in the garden. In both articles, the slug-eating capabilities of these birds were emphasized. Chickens are a gardener's best friend, it seems, poking around the...

Hi everyone, What can you tell me about the Ancona breed of chicken? I think the hens are just spectacular, and I would like a chicken that does well in the heat. I have two Wyandottes now, but I lost my Silver Campine and I'm looking for a replacement.

For your chickens, that is. I have experienced a very high mortality rate since I first got chickens in March of 2008. I originally had four chickens and as of today, two have died: one with sour crop and one with prolapse. That's a 50% mortality rate! I hope this is unusual. My husband...

Mike and I had to euthanize Audrey this morning. She had prolapsed, and the oviduct was damaged and could not be pushed back in. My Columbian Wyandotte, Blanche, has been laying thin-shelled eggs occasionally from the roost at night for about a week. I was reading BYC information about these...

Hi all, Quasimodo ( 1 year, i month old)has had slightly soft droppings for about two weeks now. Not soupy or runny, just sorta soft. Today I found two orangey/mustard colored foamy poops, one beneath the roost and one in the run. She looks fabulous, not acting funny. Feed is layer...

Hi all, This morning when I cleaned the coop, Quasimodo's droppings had yellow urates. I read that this is a sign of kidney or liver failure. Has anyone else had a chicken with yellow urates? What was the diagnosis? Quasimodo is one year old this week. She is a Silver-laced Wyandotte who...

Hi Goat People! I have some fabulous neighbors with an adorable goat named Shivers. I also have a beautiful ivy-covered chain link fence that I have been nurturing for 20 years and is finally fully grown in to block my view of my fabulous neighbor's awful stuff. Well, Shivers has finally...

I made Chicken Paprikash tonight for my father-in-law's 83rd Birthday tomorrow. It's a very rich dish, and it tastes best served on wide egg noodles. Chicken Paprikash 3 lbs chicken breasts, cut into pieces 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup diced onion 1 red bell pepper, diced 2 garlic cloves...

Hi all, In case anyone's interested, Melinda Lee is doing souffles today. She's on KNX 1070 in Los Angeles, but you can also go to her web site at melindalee.com. I have never tried one, but she says she will make it easy, and she also promised to give Roy's (of Hawaii) famous chocolate...

Hi gang, There's a documentary on at 10 pm tonight in Southern California on KOCE called 'The Natural History of the Chicken". I have not seen it yet, but it sounds interesting. Renee

Poor little Nugget, my Speckled Sussex pullet, died today. She developed her third impacted/sour crop only a few weeks after we managed to pull her through the last episode, and she was losing weight too fast for us to pull her through this time. She enjoyed a final meal of as much scratch...

Hi y'all, Nugget got a sour crop again, and we had to clean it out with the syringe, starve her for two days, then start her on soft foods and Terramycin for a week. She's back on solid foods now, but she has begun to molt. It's cold here (well, it's been cold for Southern California, so those...

So today I was out in the run, sitting on my chair with Audrey the Silver Campine on my lap. She's a bit flighty, but once she decides it's safe, she cuddles up. She looked up at me adoringly as I scritched her ears and wattles, closed her eyes halfway with a look of pure chicken ecstacy, and...

Hi all, Here's a recipe that takes six eggs and it sooo goood! I adapted it from the Summer Squash and Thyme Quiche recipe on Epicurious. 1 pie crust baked and cooled (I like Marie Callender's frozen) 1 can mild green chiles, drained 1 cup shredded Jack and Sharp Cheddar cheese, loosely packed...