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One of my barred rocks (1.5 ears old) was inside on the roost late yesterday afternoon before all the others (maybe she never went out?). She let my pat her without much fuss (in hindsight a little too docile). This morning my husband let them all out and told me, "One of the rocks is on the...

So we are apparently building our new coop and run in a large patch of poison ivy. We are going to survive the building.... maybe. But will the poison ivy affect the chickens?

I got 2 barred rocks from a friend and they are covered with mites (lice?). I dosed them with 7 drops each of pour-on Ivermectin yesterday morning, but this morning the mites are still crawling around. How long should this take before I assume that I didn't get enough on the skin or the medicine...

I keep searching on here and find... uhh... interesting... ideas on pendulums, magnets, dangling by the neck etc. BUT there must be a way to accurately scientifically sex eggs or chicks if companies sell hatchling female and male chicks! So how do they do it?????

FREE: Easter egger rooster - about 11 mo old He was supposed to be pure Ameracauna, but from his lack of facial feathers I call him an EE. His sister did look pure Ameracauna and laid a blueish-olive egg until a hawk killed her in January. Great with my hens, all 34 eggs in my incubator are...

I wanted to list my rooster free with local delivery under the "for sale" section, but have to put in a shipping and starting bid amount. I'm afraid to enter .25 and then write FREE because I'm afraid I'll be breaking the rules?

It's been a hard winter and a couple of my hens and my rooster are thin despite having constant layer feed, cracked corn, table scraps and scavenging under the bird feeder. They have access to grit and oyster shells too. They have had intermittent diarrhea all winter. My rooster's feathers are...

I know it's not a popular incubator, but I can't afford to buy one right now and it's the only one available for me to borrow. On the upside it does have a turner in it. They are mutt eggs from my flock, so nothing to lose by trying. Any hints on how to make this less than ideal incubator...

Newbie here. Trying to figure out BYC. Not as self explanatory as I'd hoped, but I'll muddle through. Had chickens for years, getting ready to set my first incubator with mutts from my Americana roo and assorted ladies. Hopefully setting 3/1 if temp/humidity is stable. Will need to build a new...