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How much land does a flock of 30 need to be honestly called pastured? We have ours on over 3/4 an acre. Half is wooded with lots of old layed mulch for scrathing and bugs and half is grassy yard planted with clover and millet ... rye in winter.. It was explained to me by a vet and a farmer that...

A dog got under our fence and tore up our flock. Our sweetest hen is mauled too badly to try to help her,. I need to get her to someone that can put her down for us. Hubby usually culls our birds but he's in Afghanistan!. I just need to know if I can give her some of this hydrocodone I have...

Hi, Thanks for checking out my post, We are trying to use non surgical methods of getting rid of bumble foot on our sweetest hen Brandy. My eyes just aren't good enough to cut on anyone anymore,.. I am having a difficult time making new bandages every day to keep the medicine on,. she is a...

Well,... I think we knew that already,... http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/wild/shows-deadly-60/pictures/#/nat-geo-wild-deadly-60-vancouver-raccoon_36986_600x450 ETA Thanks for moving it,.. wasn't sure,.. didn't want to make folks think I had coon problems,..

Just wondering,.. why do some of the posted pictures disappear? I posted a few on a thread and when I looked later,... one was MIA,.. no big deal to me,.. but I was wondering what caused it,.. Thanks for any answers.

My neighbors EE is always laying something different,. shell-less eggs,. rubbery shelled eggs and the pretty marbled egg on our BYC Mobile Fertilizers page But this is her first encapsulated egg. It had two complete membranes around it that were filled with clear goo. It had a...

We are only 25 miles from the Gulf and were hit pretty hard in Katrina. We didn't have our flock then,.. but we will have to lock them down tight and pray! I was wondering What are your plans for your flock if you have to leave?

Thanks for looking,. It's a 4wk old BCM chick. It started small and has grown over the last week. It feels firm but gives a little,.. not solid hard. Nothing oozing out. The chick doesn't seem to be in pain from it except when I tried to squeeze it. She is eating and drinking well. I have...

Hi ya'll, I recently advised a "just hatched" member to give her little hen some vitamins and electrolytes and some yogurt for probiotics after it had been without food and water for some time. Being "newly hatched" I wasn't too sure she had a good ACV or a poultry probiotic product( both which...

I just ran across the "Poultry Podiatry" website and just wanted to share the info in case anyone wanted to check it out. It has a lot of good info and tips,.. much of which can be found here on BYC but all in one place without reading through tons of old threads. Many of you probably know...

We would even be interested in Mississippi,.. DD wants to show but so far the only shows she has found in south Louisiana are for battered and fried

A cute duck trucker video http://www.fowlblog.com/tag/ducklings/

We have always had them here,. we call them split Tailed kites,..with no problems,.. but I just had a pair in the yard swooping only 15-20 feet over my head and they took no notice of my running and hollering and waving at them. It's 90 degrees out there so all the young ones are under cover...

I have a month old free range roo that has just started his dance routine. Up until now he was pretty timid with the older hens ( who squat for me) and not too bossy with the pullets his own age and very easy going with the young ones. He is the only roo. Easy to hold once you catch him and...

The best of friends,. a friend knew I would love this and sent it to me,. I just had to share with my animal loving friends on BYC. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D85yrIgA4Nk&feature=player_embedded

Last night a driver hit a telephone pole and put the power out,..and it was in the 20's outside. We live in a raised house that's built to stay cool in the hot LA. summers,. so the house,and the incubator, cooled quickly. We put the incubator by the fire place,. but the temp kept dropping so...

DH is building as I type,..I think it may be too small.... we want two parallel 2x4 roosts,.. how far from the wall does the first one need to be and how far from it to put the second roost,... and how deep does the poop board need to be under it. Would it take less room to make the roost...

We know nothing about them except that they are on the ALBC list as Threatened and we would like to help keep them going. Having said that,..can anyone with knowledge of them critique these birds before we bid on the hatching eggs please...

We are near the end of finishing the new coop and run ( whew!) and it will have two people doors into the run. We do have coons so that is a big concern,. but neither do I want to spend 5 hours in the coop ... like a fellow BYCer ,. though that was her DH's fault for locking the door,.. out...

Olivia went out to check on the chickens at lunch time and found that our head rooster was gone! We believe it was the eagle that was flying around the area last week,. it's the first clear sky we've had in ages and the chickens were enjoying the sun in the yard,.,. I saw a shadow pass over the...