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Out of the 13 chicks that have hatched over the past month, six of the older have gone back to their original coop, but four smaller and one of the larger ones are still here. I kept back the one older chick because she (wishful thinking) has had some sort of special attachment to me for a long...

I found a chick, who is inside a 4-story wire cage with 5 others, with his insides...out and pretty hollow inside. I checked around the cage and under on corner, it looks like a place that something could've gotten in and walked up the ramps that lead to one of the top floors that the chicks...

Now what??? After my neighbor died, I took over caring for all of her chickens. I go down to her coop every day, at the same time, so I can be sure to grab up all of the eggs so nobody starts sitting. Well, a while back, and I marked the day, one mean little hen started sitting on what started...

I've only got one rooster and two hen chicks. I'm very mechanically inclined, but not strong. I've looked at all the photos and plans for coops, but I'd have to include the cost of buying all of the tools it would take to build my own, into the price of the coop. So, I've been looking for...

I have my two chicks in the house, in a guinea pig cage...the kind with the 4 inch deep plastic bottom and the wire top. It is in the 90's outside, but I took the advice to use a heat lamp and just bought one. I also had a hanging IV stand, so I attached that to the cage that the chick's cage...

The rooster that I found, and have been holding on my lap every night, lets me rub and scratch his neck under his feathers. Problem is...little tiny reddish orange creepy crawlies about the size of maybe a very skinny flea, but bigger than lice that goats get. WHAT ARE THESE and what will they...

I caught a big rooster last week, Little Jerry, that somebody had abandoned at our local lake. Since he's already been dumped once in his little life, I didn't have the heart to get rid of him. So, since I'll be setting myself up for one chicken, I thought I'd get some hens so I can have eggs...

Well, rooster, but it's a start! Somebody dumped two big roosters down at our little lake, so my neighbor and I went down to try to get them, but this guy was the only one that was friendly enough. I'm used to being around my neighbor's little Banties and this guy has HUGE legs and feet. When...

He's about weeks old and he's ½ Cashmere and ½ Angora; I think I might be sticking with the name Macaroni for him. I'd name him Noodles, but it sounds too much like my #1 goat, Newton. From the picture, you can't tell how small he is, but he curls up on my lap and fits like a cat.

I have a one year old ewe who has small horns, about 3 inches long. Today, when I was putting her back in her pen, I noticed that one of her horns was bright red. Upon further investigation, it looks like the whole outer part of her normal brown horn has been stripped off of some sort of 1½...

He's been sitting on the bottom of his cage, fluffing his body up, and not eating regularly anymore. I know the bottom of the cage thing is bad, and that the fluffing might be something, but I don't know what to do. It's been hot here and the air has been on with a ceiling fan, so he could be...

My baby cockatiel is a few weeks old, eyes unopened, and now has splayed legs that seemed to happen over night. What can I do? Is he just trying to get used to his legs? I've looked in on this little guy a few times everyday, so this is killing me. I read the other posts and put some of that...

Does anybody know anything about feeding a baby Black-Headed Grosbeak? I've had him or her for about three weeks now and when I found him in the cat's mouth, he had probably fallen out of his nest and also hadn't grown any tail feathers yet. Now, he is still getting, and asking, for his wet...

I've been feeding a baby sparrow for about a week now and he lives in the house, in a cage. At first, I was holding him and feeding him the packaged baby bird food with a syringe, but now, he has different branches and perches in his cage and he just sits there while I feed him. I noticed...

My sister is in Southern California and already has a Pug mix, but they just had to put their old Standard Poodle to sleep and now the Pug is very upset, so they've waited a while and have now decided that they want to get him his own new Pug puppy, but she doesn't want to pay a lot and doesn't...

I'm still in the process of talking my husband into chickens, but I want to research as much as I can so I've got some ammo for him. Since we have predators, I'm thinking about keeping the chickens only in their coop; is that acceptable? If not, then I'll scrap the whole idea; I wouldn't want...

I just got back from the feed store where I met some very sweet chickens that I fell in love with. My husband says they would be bait for predators for my goats, but I wouldn't keep them near the goats because the goats would bother the coop. I just need a small thing and I only want a few...

Here is a little video of Pez, my new baby in his little blue jacket on his first day at our house. I named him Pez because, with that little "earless" head, he looks like Pez candy dispenser. Pez is sort of a liver roan color...