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Can someone please help identify this? One of my hens had a really poopy butt which I washed and found this dangling from the vent area- is this a prolapsed vent, or dried up part of an egg that she did not manage to lay completely? It is gelatinous looking, and I did not dare scrape too hard in...

Planning a bigger coop (8x8) in a few years when we downsize and move, but I just could not sit around and wait...so started the windows for my future coop. Hubby thinks I am a little crazy... for above the nest box on the front of the coop

My 10 month old Welsumer had a case of bumblefoot about a month ago- we check the flock often, so we caught it in its early stage. The pad of the foot was slightly raised, with a black scab over the pad of the foot. "Mom, does Wellie have a callus?" was the first indication. I performed...

Hi folks I need some advice. My blue wheaten Ameraucana finally integrated with my flock of 4- long story- QT, lowest on pecking order , picked on etc etc. Well just as she has settled into a somewhat peaceful co-existence with the rest of the birds, she turns around and goes broody on me! It...

I have a small coop, so when we lost one chicken to a coyote, we acquired a blue wheaten Ameraucana (26 wks old). We have a flock of 4 (23 weeks old) who have been together since they were chicks. After a 30 day quarantine, our new pullet Muffin sat in a second tractor next to the flock for a...

Hi BYC'ers, one of my pullets has a broken toe from an encounter with a coyote. We lost one but Tiny survived. She is fine except for a broken toe, right around the first joint. It is a little swollen and I have put a splint on to immobilize it. How long should I leave the splint on for it to...

We just lost one of our pullets to a coyote attack, and am looking at replacing her - we have a small backyard flock of 4. We are wanting an egg layer and my daughter would like an EE with a muff. We are looking at a 16-20 week old as our other chickens are around that age and thought it might...

My chickens are about 14-15 weeks old, and I thought they were doing well and growing up fast, until I visited my neighbor who had chicks 2 weeks younger than mine, and those were HUGE!! almost twice the size of my birds, and already with red combs and wattles. Their birds were a mix of Barred...

This is the silliest thing I have seen- we have a freak winter storm coming in over the next few days, and temps are going to fall into the teens and twenties, so being a good chicken mom I went and got them a red cabbage to play with in the coop in case weather is inclement and they don't want...

Hi folks I installed a couple of PVC feeders in my coop for my young chicks, and discovered that even when hung up high the chicks managed to spill lots of feed out, so I cut out a couple of feeder "collars" using a rubber type material similar to the silicone baking sheets you can purchase...

Hi folks My 6 week olds have been roosting (a towel rack about three inches off the floor) quite happily in their brooder since they were little ones, and the past few days I have been turning off the heat during the day, and left the heat lamp on at night. Today they were outside in the yard...

Happy New Year to all BYC'ers- and thanks for all the information that you have supplied me with re: coop designs and raising chicks etc. I finally joined BYC officially yesterday- the same day I finished fencing the run! Husband and I took about two months putting the 4x4 coop together. The...

Hi all My husband teases me about "lurking" in the shadows of the BYC forum for the past couple of months, as I researched raising chicks etc, so I finally joined BYC as an official member yesterday! I got my chicks from some family in town who had ordered more chicks than they needed. Two of...