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We came home from the beach yesterday with three land hermit crabs. I knew my 8 year old daughter would ask for some. I did some research online while we were there to make sure I knew the basics, so we chose 3 yesterday morning right before heading home (I'm pretty sure they are all "purple...

So I'm sitting on the beach at beautiful Pawleys Island, and a bird comes strutting by, making sure we haven't dropped any snacks. Without thinking, I automatically said "bock bock bock" to it, just like at home when a chicken walks up. Some habits are hard to break!

Kitty, one of our EEs, is our favorite chicken. She fractured her leg in October, so she lived in a dog crate in the house for four weeks while she recovered, so we got to know her very well. She is a very sweet girl, so we couldn't resist letting her sit when she became broody. She sat on...

. . . to find my three 9-week-old cockerels playing chick football with this. Mmmmmmm, dead frog! Little freakin' dinosaurs

Had 6 chicks hatch out yesterday under my broody cuckoo Marans. . . one more was pipping last night. We HAD to move them to the broody box because the chicks were falling from the nesting box- they are all ok, but we didn't want them falling out during the night and getting chilled or injured...

I have been checking the last couple of days under my broody cuckoo Marans, looking for pips and there are three today. One chick looked like it got halfway out and died- it's not moving or breathing or anything. The shell looked like maybe it began hatching and got stepped on, but the chick...

Or do they work well? Living in the buggy South, we have flies, but this being our first summer with adult free-ranging chickens, well, the flies are horrible. I know about the air fresheners in the coop, DE, fly traps and fly tape, but I would like to know specifically about fly predators...

I'm sure our horse owners here know about this, but just in case, here's an article: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/05/17/outbreak-of-fatal-horse-virus-spreads-to-california/ SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) — At least 10 horses in California have tested positive for a deadly horse virus in an...

Just got home from a zoo field trip with my kindergartener's class to find two of the blue/green eggs under my broody have pipped! I can hear them peeping!! *runs around frantically, waving arms and screaming* Now I am a nervous mama, especially with severe storms coming tonight! I just want...

13-year Cicadas are getting ready to emerge! It's going to be a louder summer than usual, it seems I like them.

If you have an egg that you know is a double-yolker, does it count as 2 eggs in recipes? I would assume it does, but thought I'd ask the experts!

Not sure if a broody question should go here or in Incubating & Hatching- mods feel free to move as you see fit! I've got a broody Black Star who has been sitting on 9 eggs since this past Friday, April 8. We haven't yet moved her out of the regular coop (DH and I seem to have different ideas...

Not often, right? I have a Black Star that sure is acting like she's wanting to go broody. My DH said she was in the nest box last night when he went to close up the coop, so he moved her to the roost. He said her belly was completely bare. I checked her this morning and she has plucked a...

We have an EE that has always liked to hang out by herself while free ranging, on the far side of the yard near where we park our cars. We discovered she was laying in a box and took those eggs away. She has never laid in the box again, but we don't know that she has laid in the coop since...

I went into the coop today to do some raking and there was one of my cuckoo Marans on the roost. I thought that was unusual, since everyone else was out free ranging and had been since early this morning, but I thought maybe she was just resting. I accidentally knocked the roost she was...

I posted about possibly having a cracked tooth several days ago. Well, it was cracked, and very badly. It was otherwise healthy, no cavity, but it couldn't be repaired as it was cracked almost all the way to the bottom through the middle. The dentist extracted it today and I have an...

If you have, and you had it repaired and not pulled, how was it repaired? Filled and capped? (I assume it depends on if it's really cracked instead of crazed and how deep.) I'm pretty sure one of my teeth cracked Sunday afternoon. It already had a cavity and I guess it just couldn't take...

My DH and I were FFLs until the beginning of this year when we gave it up. We still get the suppliers' emails and got this one today, thought I would pass it along in case anyone here has any of this ammo. Mods please delete or tell me to and I will if this isn't appropriate- I just know a lot...

I'm interested in getting some game breeds at some point in the future and cannot remember which are good broodies. I am interested in standards, not bantams. I love the way Shamos look, but am I correct in thinking they don't go broody too often?

We think she's around 10-12 weeks old. She's very sweet and playful, but a gentle girl too. We think we have a name, but it's not set in stone yet. My husband said a lot of women would kill for her eyelashes