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Hi, everyone. I have just received the worst news a chicken owner can probably get. My flock has tested positive for Marek's -- Marek's antibodies, at least. I really need some support from other chicken people right now, and I'd like to ask you all what you think about this problem. Here is...

Yes, I have some issues with the New BYC. It's less intuitive, there's that irritating breed review feature on the side, and it's just plain different. But -- now UNLIMITED pm's for everyone. Thank the BYC gods.

Start drawing again! I keep seeing all these neat threads on here with people drawing birds and stuff, and it made me want to start drawing again!! Here's a picture of my Gideon -- it's still a work in progress.

Hey, everyone!! I thought there should be a place to post links to your YouTube videos! I keep seeing cool threads about people's hobbies and talents and all sorts of stuff -- and I'll bet there are plenty of people on here who have stuff to share on YouTube!! Forgive me if this is against the...

I just find one of my adult serama hens puffed up, with eyes closed and tail down. Her breathing is noisy. I lifted her wing and put my ear to her chest, and heard almost a chirping sound at the end of every exhale. I opened her mouth and looked and listened. I couldn't see anything stuck, but...

Hey, everyone. I have another thread about my sick serama hen going on right now, but this is a separate question. This hen of mine has a dark comb, is all huddled, very thin, and has a scab all around her bum. Somebody in her cage of three hens plus a roo was laying eggs too large for a serama...

Hi there, everyone. I have a year old or so Serama hen who has previously been healthy other than mites. She has been looking a little droopy since day before yesterday, and has been flicking her head as though she has mites. HOWEVER, I just treated my flock for mites with frontline and wormed...

Take a deep breath, I have good news for all of us. Although everyone says there isn't, there IS a test for Marek's that does NOT require a necropsy! There are, in fact, at least two DIFFERENT tests for Marek's that can test on a live bird. Here is one of them...

Hey, everybody. Well, I'm just having a grand time with my birds right now. I now have a cockerel who is four-five months old and is in really bad shape. I noticed his comb was looking a little pale lately, but he seemed just fine otherwise and I didn't really think anything of it. He was in a...

Hi, everybody. I need to ask a very serious question. I have just started a Serama breeding business and have just barely gotten my breeding stock up enough and raised enough birds where I can start selling them. Now, just as I am about to begin selling, one of my hens -- not a serama, but...

Hey, everybody. I have a beautiful rooster, great type, great personality, blah blah blah. When I got him at about five-six months old his comb was fine. Now it has bent outward, at an angle. The tips of the comb are darker than the rest, but otherwise he seems fine. Here's a pic: My...

Hi everyone, I wasn't quite sure where to post this, so if I chose wrong just tell me or move me! Thank you!! Okay, so I'm working on building up my Serama breeding stock. My hen to roo ratio is terrible, so I really need to sell some of these roos. I have a few I've decided to sell already...

Hi, everyone. I have a Jersey Giant/Australorp hen who won't stand up. I found her sitting on the ground in the coop this way three days ago. I had all my outdoor chickens closed in the coop for a few days because we hosted an event in our backyard over Halloween, and had lighting fixtures and...

I have so many questions, and I have been searching and searching for answers on here and elsewhere to no avail! I am starting to breed seramas and I have been seeing "Silkied Frizzled" Serama breeder birds for sale. How is that achieved? They say that if you mate one of those birds with a...

Okay, this chick is a barnyard mix, a couple generations down the line. He's a little roo who otherwise seems fine, but had a brother/sister die a couple of weeks ago -- but who was in a SEPARATE brooder! I am concerned that it may have been a brother/sister breeding that resulted in this chick...

Hey, everyone. I was just wondering how long everyone here waits after they see no development in an egg before they toss it? For example: I candled all my serama eggs on Day 2. Yes, early, I know. But I found six that were obviously developing, and the rest were not . . . not yet, at least...

Hi there, everyone. I have a male guinea, about a year old, who has never had any health problems that I know of. He still seems pretty well, running around, scattering the chickens, eating lots, and as far as I've seen pooping normally. I have him free ranging with the chickens, a duck, and a...

I JUST GOT MY NEW AVATAR WORKING!!!!! Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system, lol. I just learned how to make animated avatars last night and I've been spending waaaaaaaaay too much time on it since then. Plus, I finally got all the words to fit into my new updated signature...

Hi there, everybody. I have been dealing with some rescue birds and things like that, plus it has been easter weekend and I've been out of town, so I've had to have someone watching my chicks for me. When I picked them up from their house at the end of the weekend I noticed that one of my four...

Hi there, everyone. There is a park near where I live that has many, many feral chickens living in/around it. They are actually a part of the little town's culture, and many people who live there feed them. Still, when it comes to injuries, it seems that the chickens are pretty much on their...