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Anyone interested in taking in a lone male African goose? We've had a mink rampage through the flock and he is literally the lone survivor. He's pretty depressed right now, and has some defensive wounds on his wings - the last bird taken was his duck best friend, and it looks like our goose...

My EE girl went through a molt in August, at about 9 months old - along with her BSL brood sister who is exactly the same age. Both stopped laying for about a month, then picked up again and have been pretty consistent since.

Part of the reason I started my own flock was to cut back on the amount of incidental drugs in my food. So on one hand, this makes me happy. On the other hand, yeah. So much for treating diseases without breaking the bank on vet bills.

Anybody run across this yet? Apparently the FDA are going to start phasing veterinary antibiotics into prescription-required. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1037243/over-the-counter-medications-otc-impacted-by-new-fda-prescription-requirements-initiative

Hello again, everyone! How's things?

Any advice on laying age? I have two pullets in my flock that are just over 26 weeks, and I'm starting to worry if I'll ever see any eggs from them!

Hello and :welcome :)

If you specifically want a barn cat, look into local cat rescues. Many of them will give you a feral, fixed cat for FREE, because it is already wild and can't be adopted out as a pet, but can't stay at the dumpster where it grew up.

They both definitely had a Brahma daddy, but he had a good mix of ladies so no telling which mother they came from.

Not the best quality, but.

Both chicks are brahma or brahma mix (bird #2 especially) and somewhere 10-11 weeks old. Mystery bird #1 Mystery bird #2

Here are a few pics I took during construction. As you may see from the base, the pallets I got did not have slats on the side, but 9 big blocks of particle board holding on 3 runners on the bottom. For the walls, I pulled the runners and blocks off so I just had the top part, then nailed boards...

All birds are dinosaurs (even chickens). http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html Dinosaurs lay eggs. Therefore, there ARE no chickens, only dinosaur eggs, and this is a pointless argument.

I'm just wrapping up a pallet coop build. I don't have experience. The last time I made something with wood was a CD rack in high school 15 years ago. I didn't even have tools when I started. I never had a plan and anything I thought up as I worked never came out the way I imagined. I found...

It is. :D I did buy new material for the legs and roof, but the floor and walls are all recycled.

I took one, but it was mostly dark by then.

They're about 9-10 weeks old. Temps were in the 30s last night here so I bundled up to do chores. There's a small-batch roaster in Atlanta that I usually buy from, but he usually closes too early for me to get to except on the weekends, and I was focused yesterday on finishing up the coop.

I finished my big coop yesterday! At least, well enough to move the chicks into it last night.

Good morning! My chicks spent their first night in the new big coop, and survived to complain about it! On the other hand, I ran out of my good coffee beans and had to steal a couple of scoops of Maxwell House from my roommate.

About 9-10 weeks old, has not started crowing yet, but already is very alert and watchful of the others. I am in a no-rooster area and cannot keep him. The original plan was to process cockerels, but Birchen Marans are rare and it seems to be a waste to eat such a beautiful bird if someone else...