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Im considering buying 3 Sussex bantams from an acquaintance who lives nearby. She has 6 big ones and 3 bantams who don’t get along very well. She has these chickens since last summer and they are all healthy. I have room for these 3 bantams and would like to add them to flock. But … She bought...

This year I like to add a few chicks to my flock again. I have 6 bantams and there are a few good mothers amongst them. First step: I bought some fake eggs a couple of weeks ago. Planned what would be a nice time for baby chicks and decided that the first week of May would be perfect. This is...

If you ever bought a prefab coop, please give a review and tell the world what happened with it. https://www.backyardchickens.com/reviews/categories/coops-runs-housing.15/ Purpose: prevent others to make mistakes in choosing a coop.

hi BYC members, readers, posters and lurkers, I wonder. Is it a good idea to ask people to give feed back to the sales department/factories about the flaws in the chicken coops they are selling? This was discussed with @ManueB on the ex-batts thread (by @Shadrach ) about the allotment where...

Introduction Yesterday I received a new Dutch. A 4 year old beauty. Her name is Kraai and she is from a family that moves to a house with a tiny garden. This hen was alone after the other hen they had died. Especially the daughter was looking for a nice place for her pet. She came over with her...

There are plastic particles in the meat and milk we buy in the supermarket. The Netherlands exports a lot of milk and meat all over Europe and even further. So it’s very well possible you eat or drink it too...

Watch this amazing video about the Intelligence of a parrot. It made me wonder. Not being able to talk like parrot, doesn't mean they are dumber, Can chickens be just as smart? What do you think?

I have 3 old hens (7-8 years old) who don’t lay much eggs anymore. One of them is broody. And it made me wonder. Can old hens who stopped laying get broody?

I have 2 broody’s still caring for 3 bantam RIR chicks . Last weeks the broody’s and chicks wanted to roost with the flock. Just 4 bantams now. But two of them (highest in rank) get real bullies when they are settling and after a while they go back to the nest box to sleep. In the compartment...

🙋‍♀️ I and other ‘peeps in Europe’ have an issue in the thread ‘peeps in Europe’. We all get some alerts after posting in the thread if someone else is posting. But after a while the alerts stop. The same thing happens with other threads I would like to follow. I use bookmarks for this. But is...

I have two broodies in two nests next to each other. This year I want to keep the broodies (and chicks in 3 weeks) in the flock. The eggs are marked and there 2 extra nests for the other hens. I put fertile eggs under them on Thursday evening. When I gave the flock some scratch one broody went...

What do you get if you mix breeds or colors? I love my progeny /offspring and I am curious if you can show us some result of you’re offspring too. pyle Dutch cockerel Lavender Dutch in front The black Dutch on the pic is a daughter of first cockerel (pyle) and the lavender Dutch. The...

I have chickens for 6.5 years now and have been thinking: “How come I didn’t have any worm infestations, scale leg mites, feather mites or other parasite problems. “ The only things I can think of are: The healthy and lively soil in the run, the coop floor with sand mixed with a little...

Let me start to tell what I experienced with my flock of 7 after my bossy lavender Dutch disappeared. At first I didn’t know what happened and I wondered if she would return. But she didn’t. The first 2 weeks the flock was quit timid. They were not so anxious to go outside to free range...

I just did (on Netflix). And I was really impressed. Gives a wonderful insight on our changing world an hope for the future. There is beatiful film in it, crazy images of amazing birds in tropic rainforest and even chickens.in factory farming to show us what men is doing ... far away from...

Yesterday there was a broadcast on our National TV about a new kind of egg they sell In the supermarket with the label ‘no chick killing’ . The team investigators of this program went to the laboratory that use this method to trace male chicks at ⅔ of their lifespan in the egg. Then cull them...

Please join with you’re stories (and pictures). Here is my story: I had a smal coop that belonged to a few rabbits before I started with chickens. I wanted at least 4 chickens but because the coop was so small only tiny bantams would fit in. After studying about breeds and what chickens need...

I would like it if there was a breeder somewhere that was breeding chickens with roosters that don’t give the alarm 🚨. It would be great to have a (bantam) rooster that doesn’t wake me and the neighbourhood up every morning at sunrise 🌅 . Why isn’t there a breeder on this planet giving it a...

If you don't want to eat chickens/turkeys or other meat from the big industrial farms you have like two choices: grow you’re own meat and cull them become a vegetarian Not everyone has the guts to cull their own chickens. But you don’t have to eat meat/chicken. It’s okay to eat less meat or...

I was quit flabbergasted reading a couple experiments about hatching a chicken and a quail with boobies and keeping a pair of chickens as husband and wife in a cage that is not okay at all to keep chickens. It breaks my heart 💔 reading this stuff. I thought this forum is meant to advice people...