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My four week old ladies, two each of Silver Laced Wyandotte, two Speckled Sussex and two Golden Laced Wyandotte are developing nicely in their indoor brooder and are looking ready for some turnout time in the chicken paddock. The weather here in NY is warm and summery and the chicks have a...

Free to good home! Gorgeous LARGE and healthy Easter Egger rooster. Lyle is a fellow that I hatched out of an egg and he's about eight months old. He was vaccinated against Marek's as a chick. He's fertile and is good with protecting the ladies. Not aggressive towards me at all. I have two...

I need about three button quail hens for my young quail boys. Does anyone have button quail in the Finger Lakes Region of New York? Ontario County would be best, Steuben, Livingston Counties?

From everything I've read the quails prefer a male/female pairoff, naturally. Since five out of my six are males I have four boys that are now living a bachlor existence together. They are still too young for fighting but I have a question for when they mature... Can I keep them in boy pairs...

I have six little button quail hatched from eggs. I've promised a pair to a friend and I'm having trouble sexing the little dears. Something tells me I'm going to have all males. They are about four+ weeks old and their colors are coming in and they're fully feathered. I'm going to try vent...

For sale: Four Lovely Easter Egger Roosters. Special pricing to BackYardChickens folks. $5.00 starting price each. These are egg-raised five month old boys just starting to crow. They are a base color of reddish-brown with red highlights and shimmering green tails and green highlights...

It's been amazing with these Easter Eggers. They were Ebay-bought eggs and are definately a mutt-mix. One fellow, Lyle, has been crowing since he was three weeks old and has a huge comb. He's definately a mutt. There are two very small, feminine hens with tiny combs. There are others with...

I'm researching button housing. I have nine eggs in my incubator and when they (hopefully) hatch they'll be in their brooder at first. I'd like to give each pair a good house and I've been reading about aquariums, totes and putting them with my finches. I'd prefer that they not be in the...

I just put 9 wee button quail eggs in my Hovabator Genesis incubator (with fan). From literature I've read I understand that quail need fairly high levels of humidity. I don't have a gauge but wondered if anyone has determined humidity levels by the number of channels that they have filled...

As in indoors I mean - as a house chicken. He'd need to be in a flight cage - big - 42l" x 32w" x 36 h"for his own safety (I have Jack Russell) but I'd take him out frequently when the dog is secured in the bathroom. The problem is this: Hamish is a tiny bantam and he's odd man out. He...

Welll.... I think that's what his name is today! It's pronounced "ESH sal kwa". This little birdie is supposed to be an Easter Egger but I bought his egg from Ebay and methinks he has something else in there! Possibly a Mayan god..... hence his name Ixzaluaoh. His name was Lyle Lovett...

I had nine very nice Easter Egger chicks hatch last Friday. My goodness do they want to flap their little wings and take off. They leap around the brooder (I've already moved them to a larger one) and get quite a bit off the ground. My Buff Orp, Black Australorp and Red Stars didn't do this...

I've a smart hawk after my little flock and after keeping them in their enclosed run that's about 15 x 15 for three days I just had to let them out to forage. They hate being shut up on that run for days. I'd like to put game bird netting over my back yard area but it's a big area... forty...

I am crushed. One of my nearly eight month old red star hens has developed Marek's Disease. I was uncertain what was wrong with her at first and was treating her as if she was eggbound, then removed her from my little flock of seven when she was depressed and the others started picking on her...

Here is Mildred, my Black Australorp! She is a character...full of chatter. She LOVES to talk!

This morning I found Henrietta, my Red Star, dead. There were no signs of injury, no coop or run break-ins and I would have heard a chicken kafuffle last night if there had been one because the coop is right outside the house. There was an absolutely HUGE egg in the coop and I'm wondering if...

My girls had a picnic today - we went out into the warm 65 degree sunshine to their coop and run and I let them explore. They will be five weeks old on Sunday. They practised flying and had sun baths! Agatha naturally had to come over for a talk. Molly has a sun bath. Little Red Star...

I went locally and picked up my six girls today! I have 2 each of Black Australorp, Buff Orpington and Red Star. Here they are minutes home and in their brooder. I already like that lone chick on the left! And Shhhhhh! the babies are sleeping! Awwwwwwww! I'll get more photos after...

Made a HUGE loaf of cheese and onion bread today: Yummy! I can eat it while I celebrate my first step towards chickens! I took a chance and ordered this coop kit. http://www.wholesalechickencoops.com/hss05%20chicken%20coop.html I weighed the pros and cons and if all I have to do is put it...

I did a search on BYC first to see if there were threads on the subject of painting and staining but didn't quite find an answer to my question. I ordered a little pine coop and run and when it arrives I will be staining all of the exterior pieces with a deck stain or similar. The interior is...