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Yes, it does. Thank you!

To add, Rudy doesn't appear to be suffering. He's got a healthy appetite and has figured out he can stand up if he braces himself in the corner of his box, where he can catch a glimpse of his hens through the sliding glass door. Then he scolds me for not letting him out. If dedicated nursing can...

Anything that grants Rudy a reprieve I'll go for! On BYC's front page today: Chicken Health For Dummies. Timing is everything .

****. And a few other unprintables. He's a sweetheart and I hate to lose him. Not to mention that I'm lousy at putting animals down - but, as I told the eldest child, the only open scenarios now are either I suffer a little bit or he suffers a whole lot, and a quick death is preferable to what...

Longtime lurker, first time question - I have a rooster that can't stand. He eats, he drinks, he's bright eyed and grouchy because I'm keeping him inside and he misses his ladies, but when he tries to walk he has the balance of a frat boy after a keg party. I was feeding the flock on a free...

This was an ill-fated, bad-omened incubation from the first. When I picked the eggs up from my friend they were far colder than I thought they should have been -- not refrigerator-cold, just been out in temperatures ranging from 32 to 45 degrees cold. I'm not complaining, the eggs were free and...

It's just been one of those years.... Somebody tattled on me last August and animal control showed up with a "reduce flock size or else" notice -- and the flock size was half of what I thought it was from my glance at city ordinances . I also found something else out that was very unexpected...

Quote: Quote: This is a pic of the USS Chicago. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/USS_Chicago_%28SSN-721%29_returns_from_Desert_Storm.jpg/800px-USS_Chicago_%28SSN-721%29_returns_from_Desert_Storm.jpg I just wanted to know if you were a submariner like myself. In Navy...

Quote: No. You have been warned .

Quote: <sheepish grin> I didn't mean to sound greedy or ungracious. It's just that little voice in the back of my brain that, if an egg doesn't hatch, wants it to be because the egg just wasn't meant to be -- not because the post office or I made a mistake. Goodness knows I've made my share ...

Quote: Eggs are here! In pretty good shape, considering the post office IGNORED the big telephone number and the "please call customer" note on the label and threw it onto the delivery truck for regular rounds . Will have to go down there and ask if I have to do smoke signals or semaphore...

Thanks everybody for letting me know about your experiences with half-pint sized chickens! I suspect that my Buckeye just got unlucky in the genetic lottery -- s/he's also somewhat of a strawberry blond as opposed to the rich reds of the other birds. I'm also on the hook for a lifetime supply of...

I had my chicks hatch out about page 114 (April 2, 2010) -- 8 hatched, 6 survived. They're feathering in nicely, are energetic and seem to be healthy birds but one is decidedly different from hizzer brethren. My odd chick out is half the size of the rest. Does dwarfism occur in chickens, is it...

The hatch is done, and 8 of the 10 made it...and then two died post-hatch . Still, the surviving chicks are healthy and bouncy and beautiful and...well.....I've been a bad, bad person. A friend of mine wanted to expand her flock and I just would not shut up about the virtues of the Buckeye. I...

10 eggs, 7 hatched, one pipped. I have a sneaking suspicion that 8/10 is going to be my final count, and knowing my luck they're all roosters but still....

I was going to report that I had two chicks that had pipped, but I can't.... One pipped, and one tore out of its shell like it had just heard there was a fire sale on chicken starter . One hatched, one pipped, eight to go .

Quote: Buckeye fever appears to be highly contagious. Unfortunately my husband is making me build all the extra coops -- that's okay, it's worth risking life, limb, and the remaining nails on my left hand for .

Okay, color me slow but not entirely stupid. It turns out that my Buckeye assassin was a fellow chicken, a Golden Laced Wyandotte named Hannah. She had started in on my Welsummer hen before I finally figured it all out . The rest of the family was all in favor of renaming her Lemon Herb Chicken...

Quote: Thanks for the good wishes, mrandmrschicken, I need all of the help I can get ! I'm sorry to hear about the chilled chicks . There has to be a horrible sinking feeling when you realize that the shipping container is entirely too quiet. Glad to hear that so many survived because of...