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Rosecomb bantams (cockerels) hatched this summer. Father is from the Bennett Family. Father recently won Best of Show in Double Show in Central Florida. Excellent show quality! Great little birds for any 4Her or FFA member. Pick up only (no shipping). $25/each bird. Check out My BYC Page...

I have had two hens die recently after bout with some sort of head-twitching/palsy. After a while, they lose the ability to walk/stand...then even sit upright. I just had a chick hatch with the same symptoms. What is this? How do I treat? PLEASE ADVISE!

Forgive my ignorance fellow duck owners...(we're more "chicken people")...but last month my DD was given a beautiful, young white male call duck last month from a really good breeder. As soon as we got him to the car, we noticed he kept sneezing. Once we got him home and settled with our other...

Calling all BYCers!!!! I'm a chicken owner/breeder and now my kids have obtained two beautiful white call ducks. The breeders said they raised them on wire and provided a kitty-litter tray with water on one end and a nest on the other. These little guys (Mr Quackers and Aflac) are just...

Can anyone tell me what varieties are recognized by the American Standard of Perfection for Phoenix bantams? Is it only Silver and Golden?

Anyone raising any Phoenix Bantams? If so, what do you think? Do they seem aggressive? Who are the good breeders out there?

Question to bantam owners: What do you use for your bantam roosts? Pictures would be great! I am thinking 2x2's but worry about Bumble Foot....does anyone use dowels? I even thought of tree limbs? Just needing ideas/suggestions.. Thanks!

I call upon all who read this, please pray for my friend and local Police Captain. We are a very small town...we are kin to half the people here and are married into the other half....anyway...they were chasing a car with a person who had allegedly shot 4 other people and were preparing to stop...

In preparing for his interview, my son is researching possible questions/answers. I have heard that you may be able to recognize that a hen is laying due to changes in skin pigmentation. Is this true? If so, what happens?

Santa brought the kids 2 Zebra finches for Christmas. One male, one female. We now have 3 eggs. Do we have the equivalent of feathered bunnies in regards to rapid reproduction?

Just got a call from a family member offering her 2 male sugar gliders...for FREE! She has had them for 2 years and her sons are going up and have found girls more interesting! (Imagine that!).... If I had known a week ago, I'd take them, but Santa is bringing two more mouths to feed this...

I know you dynamite, crafty, creative table-scapers out there have some pretty awesome tables dressed and ready for Thanksgiving....show off your talent (and give the rest of us ideas!!!) This is mine from last year (and again this year):

One of my new members is wanting to buy a goat for show at the fair. I know NOTHING about goats. The girl is 8 years old. This is her first year in 4H. Can someone recommend me a kind and gentle breed? Tell me what she will need to know (Do they need to have a pedigree? Tattoos, like...

On our last hatch, we chose to keep one pair of cochin bantams....Desi & Lucy. Everyday, while we are home, we let them out to free range, eat bugs, play and stretch their legs. Last night, at dust dark (as always), the kids go put everyone up and take a head count. DS came in concerned that...

This is my best girl, Priscilla. We noticed this coming on 10 days ago. She has been blinded by huge, thick scabs for a week now....what is this? Fowl Pox? How much longer? What else can I do? She has been inside the house for over a week. She has an increasing appetite (we have to...

Please pray for my DD show chicken, Priscilla. She has a upper respiratory infection and fowl pox. She is inside the house with us now, and we doctor her throughout the day (as her eyes are completely swollen now from the pox on her lids). I can fix anything but a little girl's broken heart....

I think my best girl has fowl pox in addition to an upper respiratory infection. We noticed 3-4 days ago that she had a "bubbly" eye and started her on meds. The eye, of course, became more swollen and eventually affected both eyes...Now they are completely shut...In checking her over this...

Just wondering....what DO your kids call your mother (their grandmother)? I've heard some really sweet names other than Granny!

DH and I are thinking about building a barn...for him to store his things, and a wing dedicated to our chicken obsession...call it the "chicken wing." Give us ideas...share your best interior and exterior barn photos....do you like metal, wood, or both... Thanks in advance!

I go clear across the state to buy a pair of wheaten bantams for my kids and pick up a trio for my friend's daughter.....and what do I do?? Come home with EIGHT!! Aren't they gorgeous?? My son's blue wheaten: Our trio, which should have only been a pair (I'm hopeless) My friend's pair...