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Here are some better pics. The mask isn't as prominant as I thought that it was...

I'm having my SO send another pic that is more clear... Realize that is a girl's hand that is holding the chick.. I do agree that it's pretty big.. He's about the same size as the Cornish X's that it arrived with... The mask is pretty prominent as well as that marking on its crown.. So...

I did the old "tie the dead chicken around the neck" trick on my lab that I caught red handed a few weeks ago... Left the chicken on him until there was nothing left while he was ostracized to the backyard (with ready access to food and water though) ... The ordeal went on for about 48 hours...

I just got my shipment from McMurray's today.. I think it's kind of cool getting a "free rare/exotic chick".. But trying to guess what it is can be a pain.. It's especially difficult if it is a breed that I will have to keep seperate from a "civilized" flock. I think this is an Old English...

Chickenzoo had a great point about dropping a chick in with the poults to show them how to eat and drink.. All of my poults this year were raised with chickens.. Only a total of 8, but the only turkeys that I lost were the two to a dog attack. All of my turkeys came from Cackle but I have...

Welcome brother. My wife and I are both disabled vets and have PTSD . In fact, we met in the VA hospital. I found the turkeys and chickens, especially the turkeys to be very therapeutic.. From actually having to get out of the house to care for living things that depend on me, to the...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=551250 Pictures of the coop that we built. The wife calls it the "chicken penthouse". The birds have a better quality siding on their coop than I have on my house.

ZK, I'll yield to your experience and make a mental note of this.. Kind of like the difference between colic in human babies and horses. Thanks for your diplomacy in not making me feel like an idiot. We might be talking apples and oranges with Duramycin / Doramycin .. I just know that we...

Here are some pics of the coop that the wife and I built. It is now roofed and I have wire and shutters in the windows. The area in the background of the second picture is now the turkey run. I keep the turkeys and chickens physically seperated but adjacent and only seperated by poultry wire...

Hi Lisa.. I'm by far not a "chicken doctor" and definately not a vet... But I do have a bit of experience with "people medicine". Take what I say with a grain of salt. coryza is not a disease persay.. It's a group of symptoms. runny nose, stuffy mucous membranes.. A head cold. It doesn't...

Thanks for the welcome everyone .. Quote: Nicole, you have some tough kids ! My girlfriend and I both have SI in the lower back.. Mine is L4-S1 .. Hers was more serious than mine. But mine is complicated by age [ouch] . I'm going to try hatching next year and see how that goes.. I'll...

Kudos on the idea to use a traffic cone as a kill cone.. Very adaptive.

So far I have dealt with Cackles and McMurray's . All of my original birds I bought at my local feed store. They do all of their business with Cackles. The Cornish X's were great ! One of my first surprises that I had when getting into this endeavor was that chicks can be delivered from...

Guten Morgen ! Ihr schriftliches Englisch ist besser als mein Deutsch.

Good morning all ! Call me Afi or Robb . I've been lurking for a couple of months and have been using this site like a how-to manual. I was brand new to poultry rearing last Spring but have did a great deal of research (print and internet) and jumped into it with both feet. I built a nice...