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I am finally moving to a home with a yard large enough to accommodate a flock. I am just starting my research. I kept bantams as a4H project as a kid and i am looking forward to seeing all the new improvements in chicken husbandry. I am in Atlanta and i look foreward to all the great info on...

My boyfriend and I are newly chicken owners Unfortunately one of our chickens had an accident and now is a one legged chicken. She's healthy, happy and loves to run but we are having issues reintroducing her into the coop with the others. She was always the smallest and always got picked on the...

Brand new to chicks. Our chicks came in the mail yesterday at 3 days old after a 2 1/2 day trip, we have a fairly large brooder 3x4 1/2 roughly. 3 feet tall. It is a wooden crate with a hardwire cover, a premier heat plate in a corner, water dish with rocks, small feed dish, twigs/branches and a...

i just adopted 3 adult Muscovy ducks. 2-Drakes and 1-hen. I brought them home and put them in the chicken coop. How long should I keep them locked in before I allow them outside to free range around the yard?(live on 10 acre farmstead) Previous owner said the drakes get along, is there an issue...

Hi! Really excited to have found this site! I'm completely new to raising chickens, but after just about 8 weeks of having them, they have completely won me over! Our flock consists of 11 chickens and 2 ducks, and I'm considering adding some guineas to the mix too. We just moved from the suburbs...

Hi, I'm Katrina. I'm 27 (almost 28), and I've been on the site for a while... I first came across backyardchickens.com when I was reading my new Backyard Homesteading book. I'm currently in New Mexico, and I don't have chickens yet. Due to unforeseen events, I'm staying with family until I can...

Hi: I am a fairly new owner of 5 Barred Rock chickens with one being a rooster. For the first time I have a broody hen and checking out the site for insight. A snake got the first set of the brooders eggs so she is stealing the other hens eggs and brooding them.

Hi everyone, we bit the bullet yesterday and purchased one black silkie and one white silkie both females 8 weeks- and a partridge silkie rooster 12 weeks old. We have the coop inside a secure outhouse and I've laid sawdust all over the floor and in the coop with hay. They also have a roost in...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes and no. My mom had chickens a couple of times when I was younger, but nothing major. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have zero chickens. I am doing my homework and researching. But soon! (3) What breeds do you...

Apologies in advance for lots of reading, but this situation is rather strange and I'm new to this. Okay, so long story kind-of short...My mother wants to raise chickens. She set up an incubator etc, and put in about 36 eggs, different breeds (I had no idea she was planning this so don't know...

Ok, so this is my first time incubating and I bought a dozen eggs from a local chicken farmer. Over the course of the incubation we have had to throw out 6 of them, and the ones left should be hatching any day now. One of them had this chunky looking yellow/brown stuff on the outside, but there...

Hello! I'm rather new to both BYC and owning birds. I have six chickens, a goose, and three Cayuga ducklings. I love all my birds and most of them like me back. I have one problem though. My wonderful Cayugas seemed to have really bonded with my goose and act like I'm going to kill them except...