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I switched to using one of these for the 1st time this year (my 3rd batch of babies). I love it! My gals will probably be moving to the outside coup in 2-3 week where they will not have a heat source. I've been wondering if I need to take the plate away at some point to get them use to it (like...

Thanks for all the replies! Chicks are medicated via their water. My older ones have been getting a booster in their water too because of all the heat (it helped perk up their egg production). And I do use gloves for cleaning and have sanitizer at the ready. I'll have to use the bag on shoes...

Thanks for the replies! I knew coming on to BYC was a good idea. =] I use the butter trick too for the foam. Works great! The jam did set fine as far as I can tell. I had one scoop too many so that got put in a glass dish in the fridge. Used it this morning on biscuits and it tastes great! In...

Advice Please! My friend had a flock of hens and over the summer lost 6 to raccoons. She has decided they are too stressful to keep for the time being, so she offered me her remaining two laying hens. I have the room, so I said sure. I know there is a quarantine of 4 (or is it 6?) weeks one...

PLEASE HELP!! I think I just made a HUGE canning error. I've been searching all over the internet & in few different books I have w/no real answer (the two answers I found contradicted themselves). So with all the BYC Members, I came here and found this active canning thread. Hoping there is...

Had to get on and share my *eggciting* news! Gathered eggs today and these lucky ones from our EEs are numbers 1,999 & 2,000 for all time! Whoo-hoo!!

Everyone I talked to said Austrolorps were their fav and I just had to get one. So I did. Not impressed. She lays good, but is super skittish and out of the 3 hens I've had go broody, she was by far the hardest to break. I love my Welsummer. She lays well, average friendliness, egg color is...

I just got 4 chicks to add to my flock from a place called Baxer Barns in Fall City (about an hour from Puyallup I believe). They have day old chicks year round every Friday and have hundreds of birds of all ages if you want older. This was my 1st time going there but I heard about them from a...

I have been keeping an eye. Everyone seems fine, but so did she the day before No new chickens added yet. We have plans to get chicks next week, but we made those before the one died. The chicks will be in a different area for several weeks and then in "look by don't touch" run next to my main...

Backstory: I have a flock of 7 hens, though I use to have 10. Two were taken by a coyote. The 3rd one we lost we aren't 100% sure as to why. She was found dead in the middle of their run the other day. They usually free range, but after the coyote struck a week prior, we decided to put them on...

This is Billy the Roo. He's a Dark Brahma Rooster, but he thinks he is Santa Claus.

I have information on who to contact for my state. Just wondering if she died of something contagious that I should be worried about the rest of my chickens. She has been in quarantine since she arrived. At first her cage was about 20 feet from where my chickens were. Then my chickens moved from...

Thanks everyone for the help, but she didn't make it through the night. I wish I had known what it was and what to do so I could have helped. Poor little thing. =[

Thanks! She is eating. And when I do give her treats, she gobbles them up really fast. Also pecks at the grass, so I assume she is eating some of that as well as the pellets we give her.

Does that mean it's not Mareks? Is there anything it could be? Anything I could give her to help her feel better? Could she possibly be lonely and depressed not being around other chickens for the past month (and probably longer)?

Couldn't really get a close up picture. My camera wouldn't focus. But, looking closely at her eyes, they are both like the picture on the left. Is that the good eye? New (weird) development: DH was holding her while I attempted to take her photo. When he put her back in her cage he said she...

I've been looking up and posting on other sites trying to find an answer to no avail. Every time I think I have found an article that will help, there are more factors of things wrong with the bird in the article than with mine, so not really sure if it is the same problem or not. Backstory: I...

Thanks! DH and I talked and decided to keep her quarantined for at least another week or so. Figured we'd let her grow out her feathers more before adding the stress of the other chickens. And, yes we did treat her and gave her 2nd dose. =] Feeder design I came across here on BYC. So far it...

^^Exactly what I was thinking. I was also thinking it would be easier to introduce her to the rest of the flock the younger they were (and the smaller and closer to her size).

**Pic Heavy** Been VERY busy around my place lately. Got my coop finished and run fully enclosed so my chicks could FINALLY move out. So exciting!! My Corgi, Lacey, wants to get inside with the chickens SO badly. She loved being able to go right up to them when they were in the brooder in...