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There has been a rouge rooster running my neighborhood and after weeks of everyone trying to catch him he decided to join my flock, lol! I had an extra bird snuggled in with everyone else when I went to lock up my flock. He has frost bite on his comb and will lose a good portion of it but I...

1 Mottled Houdan Cockerel, 1 Black Frizzle Cochin, 1 Red Frizzle Cochin. All around 10 weeks and very friendly. I’m located in Georgetown, TX

I have 2 drake ducks that need a new home. I got them as ducklings last year and they are healthy happy boys who love peas. One Cayuga (crested) and one Khaki Campbell. They are quite happy together and don’t fight eachother. I will be willing to separate them if you only want one.

When BYC went to the new platform did all of the old pictures get deleted at well? It seems i'm missing all the pictures that I uploaded to my default album on the old platform. It has old brooder set ups, tube feeding and may other pictures of all my birds.

Just got an email that the TLC (The Livestock Conservancy) is conducting a North America poultry census of breeding birds only. Here is a link to the form to fill out. It had been over 10 years since there was a census so let's update the data!-...

My pullets are now almost 18 weeks old and I figured they would start roosting when they were ready a long time ago. One of my girls is getting nice large red wattles and comb so I figure she is getting close to laying. I finally opened up their nesting box and put 2 golf balls and they just...

So I've heard it is pretty affordable to have done, but where do you go? Do I just call around? I would rather have them checked for worms rather than just worm everyone for no reason. @casportpony I know you've given me info on worming before. So I want to pick your brain on gape worms...

I'm hoping I'm just a new chicken owner and seeing things. Is my Australorp a pullet? "She" is 7.5 weeks old

How do y'all handle the feeding requirements for both? Right now I have my ducks on layer pellets and my 6-7 week old chickens have found their food. They all are free ranging my back yard together. So I know I need to switch of my girls food to something without added calcium for the chicks...

When can you start switching to pellets instead of crumble? Also when do you switch to grower? My 61/2 week old chicks found my ducks food (layer pellets) and went to town. So now I know to need to switch my ducks over to grower since the chicks are going to be helping themselves. They have...

She will be 6 weeks old tomorrow and I'm wondering if she is a he. Hopefully not but she seems to have a redder comb than the rest and struts her stuff. However I am new to chickens so I could be totally wrong. I really wanted a BA and she is the friendliest one I have.

I was wondering what y'all do for food and water overnight. With my ducks I take it away around 5 weeks due to mess and I'm wondering if I can do the same with chicks? They aren't nearly as messy but I would rather not have it in the coop. My chicks are 5 weeks tomorrow and are outside in...

I'm starting to sell my surplus of eggs and have finally been getting a few people interested. Now I'm wondering what to do about cleaning them. Should I just rub off what I can and leave them at room temp or do you wash and refrigerate them? All the ones I have given away I just picked...

I have what are suppose to be 3 pullets and they only one I'm kinda questioning is my BA. "She" is only 4 weeks though and I tried to get decent pics but you know how that goes.

3 week old chicks should be around 80 degrees, right? My smaller heat lamp went out last night and my big one is HOT. I have it pulled so far away from the chicks it is silly. They are in my garage and it runs about 75 degrees ambient temp all day and night. No one is close to the lamp at...

I got a good deal on a brand new in the box coop on Craigslist. Put it together today and with a bit of ingenuity its together and will work for my backyard flock. I was feeling lazy about building another coop and my since my husband is not handy I do all the building. Anyway my question is...

I don't know much about chickens since I'm rather new and guessing it's way too early to know sex. I'm suppose to have all pullets but we know how that goes. I know for sure my EE and BA are 2.5 weeks old and I *though* my gold Sexlink was just a few days older since the feed store got a...

My wonderful husband decided that if I wanted some chickens I should go get some. We already have 5 ducks so I kinda have an idea of what I'm getting into. I was just going to get 2 but I'm too paranoid one will die or be a roo. You know how chicken math works ;) so here are my girls. I have...

I'm getting to chicks tomorrow from the feed store. They are getting a shipment of Easter Eggers and Black Australorps. What should I look be looking out for when picking them out? I am getting storey's guide to raising chickens but it won't be here till tomorrow night. This will be my first...

I have 5 ducks and I would like to add 2 chickens to get a few eggs. I use duck eggs for almost everything but I still like chickens eggs :) my ducks are loud enough so I was looking for something fairly quiet and not large as my ducks range from 4-6lbs. I have been trying to figure out what...