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Here's a health question for you knowledgeable chicken wranglers. Our almost-a-year-old RIR sounds like she has the hick ups. She behaves totally normally, eats, is active, etc, but once in a while she makes a funny sound, like a short cough. It started a few days ago. Anyone has an idea of what...

That's a great idea! Yes, the darlings are our hens, we are so fond of them and don't want to make a mistake... we have an old dog fabric crate that would work very well for the trip, which should take about 12 hours. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

We need to move from Illinois to AR with our 3 dogs and our 7 darling girls. I think that we need some kind of chicken crate to have them travel safely, but not very sure what kind. I have seen some hard plastic "low crates" in chicken/livestock catalogs but we will use them only once, and I was...

We got our chicks from several local sources; One came from Trellis feed on Kirk Road, two came from Belmont feed in the city and two came from that feed store on the southwest side of the city (whose name escapes me at the moment). The last two followed us home from the Belvedere poultry show...

Hi Gargoyle, We are about 5 miles from Trellis and I am not familair with Bob's, so I will look it up. We get some of our chicken feed and a lot of seeds for the wild birds from them. We try to support the local guys. Good idea about Garfield, we are planning on going. I wonder if they are...

May 4th in Peoria, that's sounds good, it's a couple of hours away but we will drive. Is anyone familiar with this event? Is it worht going?

Does anyone know of any poultry show coming up in Northern / central Illinois? I looked online but could not find anything...

What do they do in the winter, the pool would freeze over? And do they fly away in the fall? Do they lay eggs like chickens all the time? I must sound dumb, but we just learned "chickens" and we know nothing of ducks...

Welcome Mrs Weasley! I am in West Chicago, about 10 miles north of you on Rte59. We are new from last year, but we have leanred a LOT since last spring... if you need help with anything please write back!

Bad tbitt! Bad bad bad. I showed the baby ducks to DH. He said "no!" very emphatically. He is not wrong, we don't have a farm, we live in the (unincorporated) suburb of Chicago. We don't have a pond or anything that would make the ducks happy. And at some point, my neighbors might have a...

Enabler!

Oh dear... Baby ducks are so cute... But no no no no no... I am not getting ducks! (let's see how long this lasts...).

Yes, we don't expect much production from her... we are just worried that there might be something wrong with her because she has not started at all. We are not sure how old she is because she got her "grown up" not as a chick, but she was born last spring, maybe April or May. As far as feed...

So would it make sense to say that maybe our Silkie might be all grown up and ready to lay eggs but she might just be not laying because it is cold outside? And that she might start once the weather improves...? She is the most charming bird we have and she has us wrapped around her 5th toe...

Anyone has any experience with Silkies in northern Illinois? Our goofy buff silkie bird name Q-Tip is older than the big girls, but has not started laying yet. The other 6 (GLW, RIR, BR, etc) have started laying within a week of each other in December, but Q-Tip is not. She can't climb into the...

Thanks, NotAFarm, for the welcome and the contact of Mr Heinz. We never hatched an egg so I think we would be better with a chick or pullet. Darling Hubby saw the story of the Iowa Blue in a recent Chicken magazine and said "I have to have one!"... OK.... Now we wait for the spring, because it...

Hi Gargoyle! Oh yes, Trellis is one of our favorite places. We like supporting local businesses even if it is a little more expensive. We buy bird food and stuff for the girls there. We have to go for Diatom Earth, which they said they have. Your Wyandottes are so pretty, so you breed them? We...

John and I are new chicken parents. We live in West Chicago, which is not the same as the "west side of Chicago" but an actual town about 45 minutes West of the city. Our neighborhood is unincorporated and the lots are about an acre, so we figured out that nobody would complain... and nobody is...