Question of the Day - Friday, June 27th, 2025

[casportpony]

Today's question is from @Lacy Duckwing:

What was the most helpful article you've read on BYC?

This one by @Pyxis:

Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry

Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions are. To start with, I want to address the fact that some people think assisting during a hatch is wrong. I respect the decision to not help during a...

• Pyxis
• Jul 11, 2017
• 4.96 star(s) 194 ratings
• Comments: 212
• Reviews: 129
• Category: Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens

 

[notabitail]

This one:

Understanding Your Rooster.

The reader needs to be aware that these observations and conclusions are taken from a particular chicken keeping arrangement which was conceived to be as close as practicable to the living arrangements of the chickens' ancestors, the jungle fowl, in order to study the chicken's natural behavior...

• Shadrach
• Jun 6, 2019
• 4.86 star(s) 94 ratings
• Comments: 40
• Reviews: 79
• Category: Maintaining A Healthy Flock

 

[thecatumbrella]

Two of my favorites:
Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging
Chicken bully/chicken victim - a two-sided issue

 

[Debbie292d]

I have dozens of articles pasted in a message to myself for easy reference in sharing with others, but the number one link I'm reaching for is

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Not a article, but a video on how to bind angel wing

 

[azurbanclucker]

Today's question is from @Lacy Duckwing:

This one by @Pyxis:

Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry

Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions are. To start with, I want to address the fact that some people think assisting during a hatch is wrong. I respect the decision to not help during a...

• Pyxis
• Jul 11, 2017
• 4.96 star(s) 194 ratings
• Comments: 212
• Reviews: 129
• Category: Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens

This one

 

[CCsGarden]

This one
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...lth-checklist-for-mid-year-maintenance.80116/

 

[tripletfeb]

This one
Article 'Killer in the Shadows. How My Flock and I Learned to Deal With Marek's Disease' https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...-i-learned-to-deal-with-mareks-disease.76944/

 

[Evadig]

This: https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

This one:

Caring For Cross Beaked And Other Special Needs Chickens Including Tube Feeding Techniques

This is a summary of the thread Caring for Cross-Beaked and Special Needs Chickens. Flock owners who have a chicken that is temporarily unable to eat may find useful information here on how to get extra nutrition into their birds as well. --------------------------- Some of us have opted to...

• Imprfctme
• Oct 25, 2012
• 5.00 star(s) 11 ratings
• Comments: 33
• Reviews: 8
• Category: Injuries, Diseases, & Cures

It is one of the top articles that I share from when it was first shared with me when my crossbeak, Amber, was still a chick.