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Being here in Texas where healthy/food is a forbidden subject and apparently where it is just too toasty for Flax to grow.... I have a few questions on feeding flax to my birds, before the expense of shipping some in. I am aware of the fact that one must keep the amount fed to a minimum or risk...

Been a while since I said "HOWDY" to one of the sweetest LADIES on our little space on the World wide web.... So H O W D Y !

No not thousand year old eggs szechuan style, but I went to th coop late this afternoon to give the kids some much needed and definately deserved (average 13-15 eggs a day for 2 months now)outside (in the run) time and some treats (cantalopue and fresh corn on the cob) ... collecting eggs I...

I am dealing with two issues and need advice on the best antibiotics to use in either/both cases. 1. One of my Turkens got out and we found here, after the dogs did. She actually was not hurt too badly just some skin scraped and one tooth puncture but bad enough we feel some topical/internal...

Okay the quarantine period is over for the 8 new birds!No signs of lice/mites bugs diseases, no ills no wheezing oozing loose poos runny eyes nostrils, a few missing feathers but that is too many roos, (2 for 6 hens) Sooooooooo its time to get my "babies" outside with the others. Plan A...

In Kellyville Oklahoma? Has anyone had any experience with ordering from them? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Just found them today online We're gonna have to add some hens! Got too many roos.

I'll try to keep this short but I am not known for short tales!!! My Roommate is one of those people who would help anyone if it is within his power. So when the conversation at work last week between him and a co-worker (who happens to be a german immigrant) turned to learning that they both...

Christy clean out your inbox! your messages are spilling over! Edited to fix sloppy HTML code usage! Bad Peaguy bad, bad!

I always laughed when someone would post the infamous words.." first egg, now what do I do?" Now I know the feeling!!! It is both exciting and scary at the same time! I am just amazed that I have finally gotten this far! It has been an uphill and often frustrating battle but here I...

My Wonderful 4 month old Dominiker Roo Silver has begun this past week to grace us with a very scary Warbling attempt at a crow! We don't mind at all! It's about time! but honestly it is still kinda shakey at BEST and we have a hard time trying to keep from laughing at his efforts but it is...

I got an email from Ideal today with the price list for 2009. Anyone else get it? Anyone else who did get it realize that included in the email there was a link to BYC and encouragement for folks to visit! The folks at Ideal rock!

:thun Lost my little Houdini! My little crestless Polish. Crestless because she kept bumping her head on the wire screen I kept over the brooder to keep her in! She was such an escape artist! She would still manage to get the screen off and follow me around whenever she could! I will miss her...

My little WCBP has gone and done it! 4½ weeks and she(?) poofed on me! Her sister(?) has an interesting crown started also... More of a tiara really Popsicle 's is white mostly her sisters gray/blue with white coming in where it was pecked off her headand starting to re-grow. Edited to...

4½ wekks...OOPS MAKE THAT 7 WEEKS! basically black but a very deep red (think RIR red) breast and this week the breast area is developing black "polka dots" Here is main pic And here is a closer one of "polka dots" Any ideas? TIA! Excuse the dirty washing machine top... I had just fed them...

What is it with the diamondbacks this year? We dispatched the third aggressive Rattler tonight. This one was by far the biggest. At least 5 foot+, Had 8 rattles and a button, was thick as a 3" pipe... Way too huge for my comfort! Again striking at everything around. Possibly bit one of the small...

I was doing the three brooder switch-a-roo/clean up today; I currently have two brooders working, One with the 5 week old dominatrix society (6 Dom pullets and 1 Dom Roo) and my second with 39 mixed chicks from Ideal that I received on the 15th, including 5 Polish 5Turkens 5 barred rock and 24...

Yesterday (Monday) Lying in bed thoroughly enjoying sleeping without an alarm ( the normal ding -a-ling kind) going off in my ear after having gotten up way too early on Sunday after being up much too late on Saturday, I keep hearing dogs barking and barking and barking relentlessly, Roomie...

Okay so went to Farm and Ranch Store today...The only one of the 4 in town that has reliably had baby birds this year, Of course they had babies! Said they were Dominiques- I would believe him as they were prolly about 3 weeks at most and were barring out but it was not really really clean...

Okay, I had my first go-round chicks raising/eating/ loving/ the chick starter They loved it soooo much that the 25 of them went through the 50# bag in 5 weeks before tragedy struck and the dogs had a very tasty chicken lunch. I had read on a thread here of using game bird starter for the...

While I walked back to the house to fill the birds small feeder to take out to them while they enjoyed a nice day out.The $%#$@34%%Z#@@#$^^$@ dogs found the one and only place that was weak in my fence to the run and got in killing all 23 of my birds! I'm more Pi**ed than upset at this point...