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So I've recently been infested with litter beetles. It's getting kind of out of control because they have ended up in my house...and it's getting annoying. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had to deal with these things and what your take on them was. My birds are generally disease free...

I have three broody hens. Two are silkies and one is a silkie, bantam-of-some-sort cross. If one gets up to get a drink and some food, another runs over and sits on the eggs. At night, whoever is sitting on the eggs goes into the coop and goes to bed. Another broody will take over and in the...

I recently had six little chicks hatch naturally with two broody hens for mothers watching them. I slipped five more eggs under the one hen two weeks later from a specific hen so I could get some crosses and didn't see that there should be any problems as low as the mothers stayed on the eggs...

I have two flocks right now, one older flock made up of 6 one year olds and a younger flock of 11 two month olds. They live 60 miles from one another, but I see both twice a week. I'm very involved in the care of both and routinely handle both flocks. While I change my shoes most of the time...

I've had a very broody bantam hen for a while now. She might be part silkie or part polish or something...I have no clue. But she's been out of control broody. I just got 12 silkies and they are about 12 weeks old. Do you think the hen would be happy to raise these chicks or would she hurt...

Post your pics of silkies when they were babies and then when they were all grown up! Tell your story about them.

I have my brooder filled with whole newspaper covered in shredded newspaper and I just noticed a few of my lil peeps attempting to bathe. They are almost 2 weeks old. Should I put some sand in there for them to bathe in? Like a bin with a small layer of it? They could eat that as grit too...

So, I ended up with all these silkies from TSC and I'm trying to read up on them as much as possible because they seem much different than the barnyard mixes I bought at an auction last spring. I was wondering if they were as noisy as other breeds. Do the roos crow as much? I know birds vary...

Feathered legs Nearly black legs 5 toes Black beaks Seem to have little "poofs" on top of some of their heads Feather color: 10 of 12 look like pale, dirty yellow birds, 1 is tan with mottled black and a stripe down it's back, similar to a baby duck, and 1 is nearly all black. They yellow ones...

Do yellow chicks usually end up white? Or do some lighter colored breeds of chickens simply have yellow chicks? I bought straight run bantams from TSC and got 10 yellowish ones and 2 that are mixed, dark colors and I'm not crazy about ending up with all white chickens because i really enjoy...

I have a young, 6 or 7 month old bantam mixed breed rooster. He lives with 8 hens. He's always walked somewhat funny. I figured it was because he had oddly shaped feet. That may still be the case. I later thought it was because he had worms. Not sure if he did or not, but I gave him...

I don't have a very large coop. It is about 12 sq ft. I have 9 small bantams (under six months, some only 3-4 months old). All of them are hens and relatively docile at that. I have not yet designed an automatic door, being extremely low on funds. I'd like to visit my parents for a few days...

I had an original flock that I got at about 8-10 weeks old with a few roos and a few hens in it. I let them grow up for about 8-10 more weeks and then got a second larger flock of 8-10 weeks old that I eventually integrated with the old flock. Now the old flock is 20-24 weeks old and the new...

Are there other breeds that have beards other than EE's and Polish? Could I just have some Polish with the beards and crests bred small? Do EE's generally have red earlobes? Or can they also have white since they are somewhat of a mixed up a breed? Thanks!

I've got a great Barnyard mix bantam Roo that I need to have leave the property since crowing really isn't really my thing. He's a nice guy and defends the ladies from pecks from the new flock I just integrated. He even tried to save a hen that got caught by a fox. He lost some tail feathers...

I have a young chicken, maybe 4-10 weeks old that I got from an auction with a bunch of others. They all look a bit on the scraggly side, but this one is the worst. It's whole underside from under the tail, down the insides of its legs, and up its breast bone is feather-less and the feathers...

I've got a bunch of bantams that (to me) are funny looking mixes that I have yet to encounter. I'm hoping both for some help with possible breed mixes as well as the sex of them. Any help is appreciated! The small gold one with the red eye (Fluffernutter) is such a funny thing, any clues on...

I'm confused about what people think is best. On BYC's wing clipping page, only the first 10 flight feathers are clipped. This particular site: http://www.frugal-living-freedom.com/clipping-chicken-wings.html has the whole wing's flight feathers being clipped. It looks odd and a tad extreme...

I have a couple bantams that are most likely mixes, but I was wondering what breed would have a hair-do like a cockatiel but with more feathers. They bend backwards. I'll post pictures as soon as I can get them to pose for me.

Okay, so I have 3 roos and 2 hens in my main flock. 11 or 12 waiting to join the big kids. But with the small flock, I have one crowing roo. I started out calling him King Pin long before I even knew he was actually a he and not a she. He's the only one who crows and he is also the King of...