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FREE-RANGING. Your chickens free range. They can lay their eggs wherever their little hearts please them, and knowing chickens, it's never where you want them to lay. My chickens are in a coop/run, so I get every egg they lay, and it's usually 1 a day, per hen. (Hens: 1 GLW, 1 SLW, 1 EE, 1...

You're kidding yourself if you think it doesn't happen in Canada. My friend Hollyann is Canadian. She hates the healthcare system in Canada, because it killed her dad. They prioritized him lower, due to his age (60s) when he go cancer. He died waiting in line for treatment, because younger folks...

I use sweet PDZ mixed in the sand in my coop and run. I use it very liberally and have had no deaths. (In fact, I just spread a bunch of it around yesterday, and today, everyone is fine.) Definitely get a necropsy done on your birds. The PDZ itself should not be toxic, and should be safe for...

This is such a striking photo! The color and the composition look great. Definitely calendar material, at least in my opinion.

Awesome, you posted the article!!! I just went and reviewed it. Great information, thank you so much for posting it. I hope everyone reads it.

Excellent article on owning Parrots! This is a must-read if you think you want a parrot. The part about the Cockatoos was spot-on. Cockatoos are the neediest of all parrots, and if you're not prepared to be with them pretty much 24/7, then don't get one. Also, if you work outside of the home...

Wow, that's pretty weird. So she was gently tasting you? Maybe your hand was salty and she was wanting some salt. I've had other creatures do this to me, from wasps to goats. They're in it for the salt.

Awww, ok. I guess won't give up on them yet. But there are other breeds I think I'd rather try first (I still have yet to get a BO, since mine died the day after it arrived in the mail as a hatchery).

The worst predator, to me, are other people's pets that are left out carelessly to roam. Especially if said loose pets manage to get over or under the fences of the yard of the person who owns the chickens. Loose "pets" are the worse, because in many cases (such as in our city), they are not...

Sounds familiar! Mine screams too, when she wants to go to bed and no one will follow. Or if I don't pony up the treats. She hasn't started laying yet, but I'm certain at this point that she'll shriek if someone is using "her" nesting box. Thanks for your input! I think this is the last...

That animated-eyelid one is pretty funny!

Not necessarily. Some hens will stop altogether and take a break during the winter. Your breeds are dual-purpose heritage chickens (eggs & meat), meaning that they don't necessarily have the egg stamina that a Leghorn or Hybrid chicken might have (those are bred strictly for eggs, and are...

So it was just hormones and a false pregnancy (delusion, as the doctor put it). That's great! Glad she is ok. :)

Wow, that was IMPRESSIVE! Congratulations! You are a great surgeon and chicken-mom!

Oh, ok! I thought you had posted that. Sorry bout that! :oops: EDIT: I hope everything goes well with the surgery on your girl though!

I have to pipe up here. The OP said that her chicken puked up a "line" and then posted a photo of what I assume is the said "line" and asked if it was worms. That "line" in the photo is a soggy feather. Does your chicken have a habit of picking and eating her own feathers? That could definitely...

I'm going to have say Easter Eggers. Ok, they're not a breed. But that's what makes them so great! They're a mutt, and come in a variety of colors and their eggs come in a variety of colors, so having a flock of just Easter Eggers is like having a huge variety of chickens! Plus, my EE, Falcon...

Sand is good if you have less than six chickens, live in a desert where you don't have easy, cheap access to woodchips/leaves/shavings/other bedding, and if your run/coop is entirely roofed and partially enclosed. The sand cannot get wet, otherwise, as others said, it will freeze into clumps...

I personally don't think it has anything to do with Tyson, and everything to do with old adages: "Dumb Cluck", "Chickening Out", "Chicken Little (The Sky is Falling!)". You have a bunch of very old stereotypes about chickens that are all negative (and were probably around before Tyson was even a...

Probably pullet then.