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I'm keeping them in a cage now inside the house. They came from a brooder, so I have to acclimate them to the outside coop that is my quarantine/hospital coop. They were freaked out from the 2 hour drive yesterday, so I'm trying not to throw too many changes at them all at once. I also have...

I got a couple of 7 week old chicks yesterday afternoon and I noticed that while they were eating fine, they were not drinking. I figured that the change in waterer was the reason and that they would figure it out. By this morning I became alarmed. Asked the seller and she said it was a...

"The store is linked to the two recently confirmed positive premises..." Fines! That's the only thing that gets a businessman's attention. Take the profit out and they will stop.

I was thinking about the perception/expectation thing and I remembered that when I was a teenager the chickens were not living as well as these urbane chickens are. Those chickens had a visit from Mr. Racoon sometimes. Then there was the time they had a pecking party. Replacement chicks from...

They are about 18 months old. My complaint is that all three of the old ones and now, all three of the young ones molt so slowly. All 6 of them are buff orpingtons.

My family had about a dozen RIR when I was a teenager and don't recall molting being much of a big deal. They did it for a couple of months, egg production maintained about 7 eggs a day and all was well. They took turns molting. 40 years later, I have 3 chickens again, but these came with the...

Mine stopped when they went into molt. Now, they won't let me pick them up at all.

The worker said exactly what I would have said or I would have ignored her. I guess that makes me "rude."

I, unlike some others here, will not say that keeping chickens is for everyone. If you like to travel, for example, how do you know that you can find someone that will feed and water your flock while you are away? Are you willing to get up early every morning to let the chickens out and put them...

Hard to send very many if there are only three or four as is the limit in many places. And many people wouldn't think much of killing a pet with a cough.

Poultry veterinary medicine is based upon care for commercial houses, because that's who pays the vets. Only recently has poultry been considered valuable enough for a vet to try and save it as they would a parrot. The way that works is a worker hears a cough in the house and six or 12 birds...

According to the epidemiologists, weather changes negatively affects Newcastle, so changing temperatures in the egg house may be beneficial. But I think that only reduces the spread of the disease, not curing or even suppressing the disease in infected birds.

Throwing money at research might help. It hasn't helped much to stop citrus "greening" a bacterial infection, but it has pointed out that citrus was bred for more productive trees that are less resistant to disease. So some research is going into old rootstock, others are saying gene splicing...

Then you know more than the epidemiologists. And when all else fails, drastic action is necessary. My wife would surely have preferred not to have that amputation, but it saved her life.

Until the human race can come up with a better and cheaper way you might want to make suggestions rather than complaints. My wife had an amputation to stop one. I'll make a suggestion now. There are vaccinations for the various Newcastle diseases and maybe for the exotic/virulent strain. It's...

Yes, the Mexican government declared itself VND free. US not so much. Pick your poison.

In this case, not just corporate profit. There isn't much point in growing oranges in Florida any more because of the greening for which there is no cure despite tens of millions being spent. And if this disease is allowed to become endemic, there won't be much point in having BYC because it...

I quoted it. Another word for endemic is common.

No matter how well or poorly the job is done, there will be people complaining about it, because people don't want the government messing with their stuff.