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A while back I saw a link on this site to someone who knows alot about it but my search function is not helping me to find this post. Without knowing much about it I bought a garbage bucket and started brewing chicken manure tea. My first batch will be ready in 3 days. It has been a warm...

Someone has complained about my chickens and the city is forcing me to get rid of them! I wanted them because I love them and I need the eggs for my liver disease. I harvest the poop and feathers. Don't know what to do with the feathers yet. They don't smell because of my harvesting the...

http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000571_melamine_organic_chickens_China.html I trust this source. The article says it was found in France. Who is checking to see if it is here? I am searching this site (BYC) for alternate feed ideas but when it comes to buying the whole grains I don't even...

Can my dogs or cat catch it? Can I catch it? Can my grown hens catch it? Is there a list somewhere of what chickens can catch that is transmissable to other species? Not sure what they caught yet but the descriptor is in the other contagion post that I put this a.m. Thanks in advance.

Hi all. This a.m. I noticed a bloody baby poop. It was runny in a water colored mucous solution. So I came on here and started searching and got a bit educated. My feed store opened and I went down and got Sulmet and Wazine17. I would have preferred the raw goat or cow's milk that I saw...

This girl simply does not back down. The feed store said she was an Americauna but my reading says she is an Easter Egger. I haven't seen anything to say they are aggressive but this hen sure is. She wanted to pick the ants off my best dog ever's bone a few weeks ago and they got into it...

I just move the pen to a new spot of grass every week. I don't use litter as I fear that when the winds come up they will blow into a neighbor's yard. Am I being lazy? I thought the fresh grass was good for them and I am in AZ so there is not a long cold season. My second question is about...

I am not a fan of this breed. They are late to lay. They do not lay regular. They are fussy eaters. Actually they are fussy about everything. Actually they are Easter Eggers but the local stores wish to call them Ameracaunas. I am going back to other breeds. Barred Rock, California...

Hi Y'all! I have a question about feed. My chickens past and present refuse organic and refuse lay pellets. So lay crumble it is. I have two stores close to me here in Glendale AZ, Pratts Feed and the Stock Shop. Recently I had to return feed to Pratts and buy at the Stock Shop. Pratts...

enough to eat. I was aging mine so they would peel if I hard boiled them but decided to make a cooked dish. One was obviously bad and the others had really runny whites so I think I had better throw them out. I did not float them in cold water prior to opening. I have been trying to search...

Easter Egger is 8 months old and still has not started laying although she squats and brags like my others did when they laid eggs. What could be wrong?

Learned about that here a couple of years ago when I had RIR's and Austrolorps. None of them ever had that problem. Now I have 2 Easter Eggers, 1 bantam and 1 standard. I went to both feed stores for weeks and all the babies were sick so that is what I got. They were the only well ones...

Hi. I have been reading alot of threads on here but it is very time consuming. I need up-to-date bird flu info. For example, I figured out that chicken wire is no longer acceptable for building coops so mine is built with different wire. I thought that bird flu was spread with the poop so my...

Other breeds that we have gotten in the past took to us instantly and started following us around like we were momma. These "Aracauna" but really easter eggers are so wild. I have not had the time to spend with them that I would need to tame them but they are getting the hang of things and...

These babies have been staying in the shade for weeks. They have never liked the sun. Now that it is 85 degrees (89 a few times I think) they really cannot cope with it at all. Their mouths are open and we still have a few months before the real heat. I keep trying to research but all I see...

Probably about 3 weeks old. I have had her for 2. She has a pen in the yard with a roof so wild birds do not contact. It is in the 80's here and at night she comes in. Tonight she is sneezing with liquid coming out. So far the banty buddy is not doing same. How do I diagnose and then how...