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I am having trouble understanding how the evaporation paper fits into the water pot. Does anyone have a photo they can post or explain to me how they fit the paper in? Maybe I'm having an off day but I'm just not understanding the instructions that say to fold it over the water pot rib and...

I have a Welsummer/EE cross rooster. Father is welly, mother is EE. The roo has beautiful feathering (I think), a nice carriage (I think) and a ugly comb. He also has a beard. If I wanted to breed to keep the feathering but toward a pea comb how would I breed him? I still have both of...

I have a Murray McMurray Silver Spangled Hamburg rooster that I'd like to get rid of. There is a Hamburg thread on this site if you would like to know more about the breed. Zebra is a good roo and was my "surprise" chick in my order last August. He is quite the gentleman with the ladies by...

We have a "floating" chicken coop...currently just the shed...that we will attach a roosting compartment onto. The shed is 8x10 and sits on concrete blocks to make it level. It's one of those Sturdi-bilt sheds. The attached roosting area will be 8x10, too, only not all of the way to the...

I am thinking about using this for my new coop, but using the back for the front. My roost are attached to the back and I thought the higher roofline in the front would be better for that. I can't find photos of the back.

One of our ladies posted a step-by-step of how she made polymer clay canes, sliced them, attached them to the egg and what she did to get them so shiny. I have looked at all of my posts and searched for keywords. There are very few sites that I post to, so I am pretty sure it was on BYC...

I lost this the first time, so here I go again... Tonight was move-in for our 18 month old chicks. We still have some tweaks, but the coop is functional. It is 4x10. Does anyone have problems with FIREANTS getting into their hoop coops?? We don't have the feed hung up yet, and I took it...

I have had several people tell me my egg photo is being used to sell other peoples eggs...the photo is the same as in my avatar except it also has the full background. Please beware anyone using my photo to sell their products - hatching eggs or birds - are not selling you anything related to...

I have a EE'r chick about 2 1/2 weeks old, she is a funny color (so far) kind of a mousey gray/brown but I see gold colored feathers coming in around her shoulders. The weird thing that she does is go around to the other chicks and acts like she wants to eat out of the mouths. Mossy, as I call...

I love getting new chicks and the excitement of how they change. I just wish they didn't look at me like my name is Elmyra! They are happily munching on starter and drinking their sweet water in their water trough in the garage. The weather is sooo warm I don't even need a heat lamp but I...

There are not many bobwhite quail around here. I've been here 30 years and this is maybe the third one. Recently, (about 2 months) we have had one...well, two but my neighbors dogs killed one. There are no others. I call to it and it will come RUNNING toward me until it realizes I'm just a...

I tried to post a photo but it didn't work. The roost is over five feet from the ground, and the ladder only goes up about 3 1/2 foot. The mama is carrying the chick under her wing and all the way to the back of the roost. It's been a long time since I've posted on the BYC board, but my...

I had several chickens eaten from the vent inward plus some of the meaty parts eaten. All guts were gone. Most were dragged away from the coop. All happened around 2am - 5am. Does this sound like a fox or possum? .....we trapped a possum outside the coop last night. But can or will a...

I want to go to the Rioja region, I think that's where my husbands family originates from. Hate it? Love it? Recommended areas? I especially want the rustic tour...no so much Barcelona...although it looks interesting.

Thank you dear Lord for the 1/2 inch of rain we received this morning!! It's the first rain in months for us. Now I'm hoping with the cooler temps the dust will start to grow grass again. Not to mention we are a -little- less worried about wildfires. It was the other side of my...

Last night after the football game, I realized that I had left the chicken coop door open. Before I got out of the car I saw a dark animal, about the size of a medium dog, but wider, run in the shadows away from the coop! I checked and whatever it was only ate a few eggs. So, I closed up the...

Yesterday my dad gave me my grandma's pressure cooker/canner. I even have the original manual with my grandma's note written inside that said my grandpa gave the canner to her for Christmas 1947 (that note squeezed my heart!). I know there is a place online to order parts, do you think I...

...but I really like the word "winner" under my name (I never did claim the prize)! That will cheer you up on a bad day. I'm going to creep around and see what else is new.