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Hello Ya'll our Barncats have Tapeworms! UGH!! Since my better half really does not want to use any kind of chemicals, what could I use to deworm the chickens? I assume that the chickens will get the worms too? Does anybody have a natural remedy?? thank you

Hello, this is our Gander "Clark" I was finally able to get a good picture of his wing feathers.... what could this be?? I never really see him chewing on his feathers myself. the only other goose we have is his better half "Lois" and non of the other animals, chickens and goats, can get close...

I am soooo sad right now. Our goose had layed 5 eggs and started setting about a week ago. Today when they went to the pond to go swim, we looked in the nestbox and one egg was broken and one was missing (maybe it was broken too)... we took the broken egg out and tried to take as much...

Hello ya'll, We have 3 almost 7 week old ducklings, 2 Cayuga, 1 Pekin (we are not sure of the sexes, judging by voice I think the pekin is a male and the cayugas are 1/1. they live in a 5'x5' brooder, at this point they don't have the heatlamp on anymore because they seemed to try and get away...

Hello, we just found one of our Brahma Chicks (5 Weeks old) has one eye swollen shut, is wheezing, gurgeling, it seems to have a lot of spit in it's beak. We separated it for now from the others but I am completely clueless what is going on or what to do. We bought all of our 23 chicks...

hello Ya'll, so our Salmon Faverolle Hen Lucy is Broody... again.. we don't have a rooster yet, well we do but it's a baby still. It just breaks my heart to disturb her. We also have a pair of Pilgrim Geese, they layed one egg about a week or so ago, they turn it, but she's not adding to...

When we bought our chicks at Meyers 18 weeks ago we purchased 5 Easter Eggers (and some other hens) we have 4 of the Easter Eggers left and 3 clearly look like EE, but this one is just so different, I has no beard whatsoever and it's just different. What do you guys think? she is also the...

We bought some chicks at Cackle Hatchery. And one of the welsummers is in question. this is our first batch of welsummers so we are unsure as to how fast their combs grow. We did buy 5 pullets, but this one just has a pretty big comb. They are now almost 5 weeks old. What do you guys...

Hello, we went to our first Small Animal Swap and really were just hoping to find a angora goat breeder... well we ended up coming home with a Pilgrim Goose Pair 2 Olive Eggers Pullets and 1 Black Copper Maran Pullet I cannot wait till I get green eggs I am soooo stoked. here's...

Hello Ya'll, we went to a animal swap yesterday and fell in love with a pair of Pilgrim Geese, she won 1st and 2nd price at a show and he won 3rd. they are very very sweet. This morning he is a bit protective over his girl but that's all normal and not too bad. they seem to be pretty...

Hello, we are looking to buy Vorwerk Chicken Chicks. I had to put in a price... I do not know what these run for. We do not want the Bantams but the actual Chicken. If anybody has these or knows of a breeder, please let me know, Thank you

Hello fellow Duck-lovers, we are new Duckling owners, we brought home the ducklings from the Hatchery on Tuesday last week. 2 Cayugas and 1 Pekin. they are soooo scared of us, it's sad. We try to spend a lot of time with them and take them out and let them sit with us, but I'm not sure if...

Hello everybody, we've finally made our dream come true and got some ducks, we have one Pekin and 2 Cayuga. The Hatchery told us that we can just keep the ducks with the chicks and it took us a whole 30 minutes watching them that that is just not a good idea, they were really picking on each...

Hello Ya'll, today we drove to Cackle Hatchery to pick up our Chicks. We had ordered: 10 light brahmas 5 black Australorp 2 white leghorn 1 barred rock rooster when we drove home we also had 5 Welsummers 2 Cayuga Ducks and 1 Pekin Duck we are happy to hear chirps in the house...

Hello everybody, we've been having problems with Lice in our Flock. a few months ago it seemed like we shook it by dustbathing them in DE every day and sprinkling the area with DE. Now they are back. We just don't know what to do anymore. Our Goats also seem to be itching themselves...

We received our Chicks from Meyers Hatcherie on the 19th of December. We have 4 Easter Eggers and one of them seems to be Rumpless. this is also the one with the "yellowest" legs, the other 3 have more slate colored legs. should I be concerned, or what does this mean? Thank you! Anna

Hello Everybody, We want to switch from our normal bedding to Wood pellets (eventually we want to use the deep litter method, but would like to give this a try. Now when we were just getting ready to put the pellets down and opened the first bag, we realized how simmilar those pellets look...

Hello, as our big Hen House is in the last levels of completion, we are happy to announce that after tomorrow we'll be pround parents of 15 baby chicks. We ordered from Meyer's Hatchery and we should be getting 5 Black Australorp 5 Easter Eggers 5 Dominique the next batch we'll get from...

Hello everybody, finally we have internet in the new place! We are slowly but surely starting to re - build the stable and turn it into a coop. this is the inside right now, we want to extend it to the side past that first row of Hay. The plan is to add a few more 4x4's for structure and...

hello everybody. So it seems that we'll be closing on our 40 acre farm within the next few days! YAY! then we'll move. Now we have been trying to figure out how to built a coop and what it should look like and we are clueless. Our house will be out in the country with many predators...