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We're moving out the country and I am so overwhelmed by the fencing and predator proofing options. I don't know what to do! My neighbor, whose field backs up to mine, lets her dogs roam and she warned us they love to kill chickens and get a hold of cats. I have 30 chickens and four ducks. I...

We're moving to 4 acres in the country over the next couple of weeks! I have about 30 backyard chickens--mostly full sized birds with a few bantams and Silkies mixed in. I have to build new coops because our old ones can't leave my backyard, they won't fit out the gate and they will probably...

I need some ideas! Our current backyard chicken set up includes about 20 full sized birds. (Give or take some random silkies and bantams, and four ducks, that don't go in the main pen...) I have two separate coops, about 4x4 ft. each. They each have a chain link kennel run attached with a...

This is horrific! Something keeps eating the skin off of the heads of my baby chicks overnight. It's happened to two healthy chicks so far. One yesterday morning, and one this morning. Both chicks had just hatched and were fluffed up and healthy. Everyone else in the nest is fine! My two...

Two days after Easter we went to a local park with a big lake. There are always lots of ducks there, as well as Canadian geese and fish. This day was really cool and windy. The ducks were all bobbing in the water. My two year old ran over to some big tree roots, reached down and picked up a...

I noticed my chickens have almost invisible flesh colored things crawling around on them. They are very, very tiny and hard to notice. I'm sure they are from wild birds--I've noticed a lot of wild birds around their pens recently. I sell eggs. I get one to two dozen eggs a day! I don't...

Long blue legs, very small black single comb, gold laced, very skittish. Not sure what color ear lobes she has yet. What could she be?? I cannot find any gold laced OEG's or Dutch Bantams. She's not a mix, she came from TSC in the bantam bin. I think they get their birds from Mt. Healthy...

These are the Easter chicks I got from TSC this spring. They are about 4 months old now. At first I thought I had one rooster and three pullets, now I think there's one pullet and three roosters. Tell me what you think! They are the first Silkies I've owned and I *love* them. If there's a...

He thinks he's hot stuff, just starting to crow. He's all hoarse and squeaky. He's super friendly, the first to run out and be held when we open the pen. <3 him! Single comb, smaller than my Sebrights. As a chick he was chipmunk, light sandy brown looking with a black dot on top of his head...

At first they looked like a pair. Suddenly today the girly one is looking a little manly, it sprung up a comb seemingly over night! Definite roo is on the left. The one who seemed like a pullet is in the back on the left. Kind of hard to see, but you can tell from that angle how much...

I found out that a local mill sometimes has screenings for sale for cheap. The screenings are left over from the milling process for grains. The mill has all kinds of grains. On the phone they said it was a mix of hulls, dust, and whatever particles are too small to meet guidelines for food...

The other day I noticed my Pekin duck was limping. I caught her and the bottom of one foot was hot. It had a big swollen lump in the middle. I thought it might be bumble foot, but I wasn't sure. I decided to take her to the vet. Good thing I did because it turns out she has a bone infection and...

On Saturday I noticed this bantam chick had a messed up leg. I don't know what happened, I thought maybe one of the big fat evil Silkie chicks sat on it. Today the chick is still messed up. It seems to have mild spraddle leg, but it can still hobble around really fast. The strange part is the...

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This is the only one I can't figure out from the TSC bantam bin. Straight comb, pink legs with dark streaks, gold around the eyes and a bit of grayish white on the chest. Flighty tempered. At 9 days the wing feathers are black with streaks of gold, not laced. Picture is from 2 days old...

I am so excited to finally get bantam chicks! I have 22 big chickens, but I've never done bantams before. We built them their own little pen and everything. My TSC gets their chicks from Mt. Healthy. I restrained myself to just 11 of them. Here are the different types: A)These are Silkies...

I keep hearing all about Swagbucks from everyone on the interwebs. I finally decided to try it out. I'm kind of skeptical, it's not like I have hours to waste on the internet just to get a few random wins of bucks, you know? Does anyone else use it? Is it hard to get giftcards? I think...

This mixed chick is 12 weeks old. When it hatched it looked like a black sex link pullet chick based on coloring, so I thought maybe it would be a pullet. The mother is a black sex link and the father is an Easter Egger/Cuckoo Marans cross. (The father is cuckoo black and white with a mixed...

For about a month there's been mysterious poop all around my chicken pens. I couldn't figure out what it was! Similar to cat, but smaller and definitely not cat. Yesterday we went out of town and left the dogs outside. We have a foxhound and a black lab mix. They are trained not to hurt...

Over the past week I've noticed a serious drop in egg production. I went from 15-20 eggs a day to 2-3 eggs. I found a half eaten egg in the coop the other day, so yesterday I decided to to an experiment. I left all of the eggs in the coop and didn't collect--I counted 18 eggs yesterday...