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    Ended Contest #4 Brinsea’s Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Funky Feathers: Love the portrait (#2 in your post) but the rules say no photoshopping and the cutout is kind of obvious. Maybe post the original?
  2. Lee-in-Iowa

    Ended Contest #4 Brinsea’s Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Sorry; empty post; system won't let me simply delete it.
  3. Lee-in-Iowa

    Ended Contest #4 Brinsea’s Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Lily with Baby Chicks She Hatched #2
  4. Lee-in-Iowa

    Ended Contest #4 Brinsea’s Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Lily with Babies She Hatched #1
  5. Lee-in-Iowa

    Comment by 'Lee-in-Iowa' in article '$21 heated water dish'

    THANKS! I got this very water bowl thinking it might work in my coop but couldn't figure out how to get it protected from the spilling, poo-ing, etc. Now I'm thinking you could mount your waterer in there higher up by gluing in some sort of stand-holder under it. Hmmm, it would need to still let...
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    Comment by 'Lee-in-Iowa' in article 'Winter-Coop-Temperatures'

    Another way of warming the coop when needed is to use a well-anchored (double or triple supports; my chickens unhook them all too readily) heat lamp from a pet store, plugged into a thermostat controlled plug, then into a solid, high-UL-rated extension cord. My thermostatically controlled plug...
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    Comment by 'Lee-in-Iowa' in article 'Winter-Coop-Temperatures'

    Several people are wondering why chickens can't survive fine in the winters, when outdoor birds are doing okay without even a coop. One answer is, chickens are not native birds. They're descended and bred from wild chickens once found in Indonesia and not a super-cold climate.
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    Best breed for backyard coop?

    I have Buff Orpingtons, recommended by a friend who raised chickens in the Depression era as the sweetest, best-laying hens around. That's true, they're wonderful. I also got a couple of Plymouth Barred Rocks, recommended by my feed store owner as being good foragers and good layers. That's also...
  9. Lee-in-Iowa

    Need your opinion: what should every coop have?

    Just a note (been reading the "advice from old-timers" thread, where people want to know how long you've had chickens): just got my chickens last spring BUT watched my Aunt Sue & Uncle Max, Aunt Mary & Uncle Joe, Grandma, and Great-Aunt Corie (who lived in a log cabin, and whose parents used to...
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    Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

    Quote: You forgot bra's. (I just became aware of such a thing this past week ) Gee Kassaundra...thanks for that mental image I'll lay awake with tonight.....chicken bras....who knew? And more importantly.....who in the world came up with that off-the-wall idea? Geeesh! Here I thought...
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    Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

    Quote: See, that's what I'm talking about. I wish is had known beforehand just how dusty three lil chicks would be. Brooded them in my laundry room with the ceiling exhaust going constantly and the door shut. When we got them out in their coop a coupla months later, I even had to wipe down...
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    Need your opinion: what should every coop have?

    I love all these ideas. Mine are: a rugged pen (mine's hardware cloth over HUGE old aquarium frames) leading straight into the coop, in case you don't feel up to opening and shutting coop doors every day; a section of clear rippled plastic roofing (on the roof), so the hens get enough winter...
  13. Lee-in-Iowa

    Buff

    But lots of us with Buff Orpingtons call them "Buffs" for short. A very sweet, silly, friendly breed of chicken.
  14. Lee-in-Iowa

    Chicken Tips - Take a Tip, Leave a Tip

    Quote: Yes yes yes... I have made this mistake a few times... Hard to explain it to mu wife with logic... Oh my yes! I was lying on the sofa reading a book...and discovered I still had four eggs in my pockets! After a while, it becomes so normal to have pockets-ful of eggs....
  15. Lee-in-Iowa

    Chicken Tips - Take a Tip, Leave a Tip

    The Recommended Treatment for the Dreaded Prolapsed Cloaca (An Egg Stuck in Your Chicken Drags her Insides Out): One of my young (5-month-old) Buff Orpingtons began laying...and one day had a prolapsed cloaca with an egg stuck halfway out and a lot of poo just behind it. Panicked, I broke the...
  16. Lee-in-Iowa

    Please Help My Chicken With Prolapse

    One of my young (5-month-old) Buff Orpingtons began laying...and one day had a prolapsed cloaca with an egg stuck halfway out and a lot of poo just behind it. Panicked, I broke the egg to get as much off as I could, brought her inside to sluice her sore, nasty bottom with warm water (the...
  17. Lee-in-Iowa

    Ok really! WHO IS SICK OF IT?! ~UPDATED!~

    Quote: I've read that filling a few blown-out eggshells with hot mustard will cure an egg-pecker PDQ.
  18. Lee-in-Iowa

    Ok really! WHO IS SICK OF IT?! ~UPDATED!~

    Hmmm. I have 4 buff Orp's (one an accidental rooster, but so pretty and so, well, cocky, I can't bear to part with him, even tho I live in the city), along with 2 BRs and 2 Easter Eggers (Arcaunas). At 5 months, the Buffs started laying tiny "pullet eggs" barely larger than a walnut, every three...
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    I would NOT want to faint in a chicken coop!

    Quote: Oh wow, now HERE's a household hint I need right this very minute. Thanks! (I am a teacher, working my way through the mountain of laundry that accumulated before school was out--I sure wore some funny old outfits as the semester rolled onward and all my faves were down the laundry...
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    I would NOT want to faint in a chicken coop!

    Quote: Isn't it great to KNOW you're popular?! My chicks come running out of the coop every time they hear any human approaching, and I think it's because I always come down the driveway bearing treats--which are NOT my toes, NOT my earrings, and NOT my fingers!
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