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I haven't been on here for a long time! BYC has really died down, any regulars still here?

I'm really sad to have to let them go, but I'm going to have to stop raising chickens, or at least get rid of all but my favorites. Since I started raising chickens, my allergies have slowly gotten worse. Today was when I truly decided something had to be done when I collected 2 eggs from my...

Today my chicks are 6 days old. I just checked on them a few minutes ago, and one is dying. It's extremely limp, I picked it up and its head just rolled around. Every few seconds it struggles, then goes limp again. This one is too far along to treat, but does anyone know if this is a disease or...

I got a call from the hatchery yesterday telling me that my order for 25 Cuckoo Marans would not be completed. Even though I called and booked chicks 2 months ago, they chose to call me about the shortage of 12 chicks. So, now I'm getting 13 Cuckoo Marans, 3 Blue Cochins, 4 Buff Orpingtons, and...

The first five chickens I owned were what you would call extreme mixes, Who knows what all the breeds in them are. I hatched a couple of eggs from the hens, and got some cool results! This is the trio I got. I also got a hen, but she flew almost as well as a bird and got away. :lau Feel...

I own the Little Giant 9300 Circulated Air incubator. I have not hatched many eggs in it yet, but I just wanted to say I am very impressed with the temperature consistency. It's always within ~0.3 of a degree, and my second thermometer confirms that. Has anyone else tried this incubator?

WARNING: Some people may or may not be offended by playing this video, as distorting the face and vocals of an aliven't person may or may not be found offensive by some. :p

A friend of mine just had about $800 worth of meats and other food stolen from her freezer she keeps in her carport. Included in the meats were 5 or so chickens I raised myself, and right now someone could be eating them. :rant

Lovely posts, I know. My question, though, it about the "PM" letters. I did not get a PM from anyone with those names. What is it?

I see so many people against chicken wire. Hardware mesh for the win, I guess. I buy 1" galvanized chicken wire from my local farm store. It's STRONG! If everybody talking about how bad chicken wire is means the 2" stuff, you are absolutely correct! That stuff is crazy weak. It feels like it...

I went to let my chickens out this morning, and I had dumped a bucket of compost in one corner. Strangely, half of the chickens were pecking at something on the other end of the run. It was one of my buff orpingtons, all of the insides gone. The strange thing was, there were only the fluffy...

I have recently been having problems with selling eggs. I get such huge eggs that the smaller ones seem like mini eggs. My dearest mother told me I'm not charging enough, so to prove I was, I looked up egg weights. :eek: So.... most of the "Mini eggs" were large, and the smalls were extra...

Yes, you read right. It's snowing in Canada! I haven't even bought a heated waterer! Or a 2 mile long cord to reach my coop! (Okay, maybe only 100 feet, but same difference) Sigh. So... what low-power heating mat would you recommend for keeping my eggs from freezing? I have 40 laying hens...

As soon as I saw it, I was pretty sure I knew what was inside. It was the biggest egg I'd seen in my life! Was it a bird? a dinosaur? No! It was a triple yolker! Sadly I didn't get any pictures, because it was broken. Have any of you ever gotten a triple yolker?

Sometimes when I'm *attempting* to help a new member, I'm constantly getting mixed up with who is who. I keep scrolling to the top of the page to see what the member's name is, because quite a few picture-less members respond. I think to avoid confusion between new members, everybody should...

I was doing some figuring to see how much I actually make per day by selling eggs. Here's what I got. I have 40 hens, which means I'll most likely get 30-35 eggs a day. So let's say I'll get an average of 33 eggs a day. That's $8.25 a day if I'm charging $3.00/dozen. Now, a chicken eats 1/4 to...

I have some new layers that peck their eggs out of curiosity. The other hens always ignore the ones that aren't broken, but go crazy over the ones that are. I want to stop this before they figure out that the whole eggs taste good too. I tried a mustard egg, they wouldn't touch it until I...

Personally, I dislike the pullets that squat when I'm trying to herd them. It's nearly impossible to get them to go anywhere. :D

I just last year started ordering day olds. The first thing I learned is that it's so easy to ad a couple more chicks to the order. :D At first, I built a brooder as tall as it was wide. :hide Now I realize the mistake I made. Both times I brooded chicks in it, one or 2 developed respiratory...

I found a brand new poultry plucker for sale on a buy and sell website. (NOT a shady website.) It's $400, and I see they normally sell for $500 to $700. Of course I would test to see if it works before buying, and will ask their reason for selling. My question is, though, do you think a plucker...