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So I just found out a little while ago that the city council will be voting on legalization of backyard chickens in OKC on May 18th. Even though the poll that was set up was heavily in favor of legalizing backyard chickens, reportedly only two city council members plan to vote to approve it. We...

I posted this pic nearly a year ago I think, and I thought it might have been a Silkie/ Barred Rock or Cuckoo Marans cross, but lately I've heard from people that this bird may be a pure Cochin with a silkie gene...any ideas? Please keep it simple. I know nothing about genetics. Thank you for...

Okay so I went out today to feed my chickens and noticed that one of the little roo's (Porcelain D'uccle) had a huge purple spot on his comb. Last night's temps were around 9-10 degrees, with the temps the day before being much warmer. (Last night before we went to bed the temp inside the coop...

1) What type of bird , age and weight: Barred Rock 5 months old(not sure of the weight, but losing and becoming way too skinny) 2) What is the behavior, exactly: Walking slowly, has lost weight within the last day and a half to the point of looking emaciated, runny foamy poo that looks dark...

What can I do about my Bantam cochin cockeral? He starts crowing at 10:00PM, and just keeps crowing and crowing 20-30 times in a row! And he crows in the middle of the night; two, three, four 'o clock in the morning even. We can sleep through him, but I bet the neighbors don't appreciate it. I...

So my husband and I have butted heads on some things about the coop since the beginning of construction. I wanted to get plywood for the floor, he said it was too expensive. He wanted to get OSB for the floor, he won. I said to myself well it won't matter anyway because we will be putting...

The Today's Show did a story on the problem with world hunger this morning and mentioned this website where people can go and answer vocab definitions to donate rice provided by sponsors. Since food prices have almost doubled, the food donations around the world do not go as far as they did to...

This is a cell phone commercial from the UK. Cute and Funny! Enjoy!! cute commercial

News story about conjoined twin birds. Kinda gives credibility to the double-yolk hatch possibility..... news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_fe_st/odd_conjoined_birds_3

I posted a thread a little while back about the neighbors dogs killing four of my chickens. We found one of the RIR, the cockeral dead, and we found a lot of buff feathers, but never found anything else. To my knowledge my neighbors never found anything but feathers either. (they were all over...

Here are my two standard Barred Rocks....I know one is a cockeral, and is the other a pullet? Here are my three light babies, the one on the far left is white, the other two are a yellowish white; more variegated. Can anyone tell me what breed the bantams are, and hopefully the sex...

I am making bott boi (pot pie) and I started the dish not knowing that I don't have any chicken bullion left. Is there something that I can substitute for chicken bullion?

I lost my first four babies to the neighbors dogs today. They were our pets. I had one for each of the kids. Yes I know they are livestock, but these 4 were specifically bought not only to lay eggs but also as pets, and we treated them as such. They were not skittish around us at all. They...

There is an abundance of creativity on BYC, so I thought I would start a thread for everyone to share their creative children's birthday party ideas! Share whatever neat ideas you have to make children's birthday parties special! Examples include: Things you make for the birthday parties...

I have two barred Rock chicks and 7 mixed bantams that I bought a week ago that are housed together in the brooder. They are about a week and a half old. I did a search, and the only threads that I found were about cornish x's, which the general consensus for the cornish is that they have bare...

We have been collecting wood for our coop for quite some time, but we have decided to build the coop much bigger than originally planned. We are in need of mainly structural pieces....2x6's, 2x4's and plywood the most, but need other sizes as well. We are building a 10x16 coop. So my questions...

I'm not sure if this is in the right place or not, so please feel free to move it if It's in the wrong place. I would like to know how long do eating eggs keep? I have heard 3 months, is this true? Less amount of time? More? Is there a difference between how long laying eggs from home keep...

Hi everyone. I am pretty sure that I have three Roo's and one hen, as several BYC memmbers have advised. The questionable RIR is getting pink in it's comb and the other RIR is still up in the air, but I'm leaning towards it being a runt roo. I know that the two Buff Orps that I have, one is a...

Hi I have watermelon and a lot of rinds from a watermelon that I cut up today and my chicks are about 5 weeks old. Can you tell me if they can eat watermelon and the rinds (sp?) I don't want to feed it to them if it will hurt them, though I can't imagine it could. But I want to be sure. Thanks!!

I went outside today to take the kids out to play on our property, and I hear a loud noise. I\\ listen for it, and it sounds like a kitten howling. It sounds like it's in horrible distress. So I follow the noise, and it leads me to an old riding lawn mower that was left on our property by the...