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I can commiserate! I've had two very close calls with my girls (6 bantams) in the past month - so close that the hawk was tumbling around with the bird each time until I ran all the way over to scare it off. After the first attack, in which my husband and I were standing about 30 ft away, I...

I will take a pic! But basically it's very tiny pieces of plastic, some are as small as 1/4 of a nail, and some are more like 1/2 a bottlecap, and much of it is little pieces of plastic bag... a good reminder to all that this stuff truly exists forever and we should all take any chance we have...

Yes :( it's in our blood and even in the tiny microorganisms that live under glaciers...I'm an environmental attorney and my chickens and my garden help me to escape the existential dread after work each day, so I think the realization that it's totally permeated my yard has been extra difficult...

This makes me feel much better! Thanks :)

I'm glad to know yours don't seem to eat it. I can't tell how often mine do...Honestly I may get out the binoculars and see if I can tell, lol. I see them toss pieces aside sometimes, but usually it's a bigger piece they do this with, so I can only assume they eat the tiny ones :(

I was thinking the same thing, that they eat grit...so it should be okay...i just hope the bigger pieces aren't getting stuck, resulting in some accumulation over time that harms them...agh. Most is very tiny but some is a little bigger, like 1/4 of a bottle cap for instance (and I do think some...

Hello friends, I've never raised chickens in the suburbs until this past year, and am finding that our yard is full of microplastic. I just had $1k worth of organic topsoil delivered for landscaping, and hoped this would dilute the plastic quite a bit, and even THIS has plastic in it 😭 I see my...

Oh wow, super helpful--i just looked it up, and now that I think about it, we did have a weird thin shell a week or so ago but I didn't know who it came from. Hopefully it is that! Thank you :)

Hello friends, Susan, an 8 month-old bantam RIR, is not handling our Oregon weather very well. It's been snowing for the past week or so (came out of seemingly nowhere/big temperature swings) and with that has come frequent sneezing. The other 5 chickens stayed in the coop, on their own accord...

How odd that you've had chicks other years in the same location with no sneezing! Glad to not be alone though :confused:

Definitely a good point, but I hold them several times a day near where there brooder is located in my finished basement! I don't wear any perfume, non-scented laundry detergent (and they are near the laundry area just like Maryn7's are). So I think in this instance that isn't a common...

LOL THE DRAMA!!! Few things are more dramatic sounding than a diva duck, I can hear her now... 😂

I did see yours are also from Cackle and it gave me a laugh! (I just did ALL I could do avoid saying it gave me a cackle). I thought it was just because these are my first "city chickens"...I've never had chickens as a city dweller before and I'm not used to keeping them inside SO much, but...

Sheesh, thank you all for the fabulous welcoming! It's great to be back :love

Hello there BackYard Chickens community! I first joined backyard chickens at around 12 or 13 years old when I was raising chickens for 4-H. My 4-H club didn't have a chicken group so a friend and I sort of started our own -- we found an old "How to Show Chickens" pamphlet from the 70s at the...

🙋‍♀️ me me! I have seen this! My chicks are also allergic to new experiences! I just made an account so I could reply to your thread because I am so glad my chicks aren't the only ones. They are about 20 days old and I ordered directly from Cackle Hatchery; 3 Brahma bantams and 3 RIR bantams. No...