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I have 3 surplus cockerels free to a good home, if I don't have to drive too far to deliver. I can sell a pullet or two with them, $10 each. All are nice boys - we eat any jerks.

I have been scanning old family photographs and found some of myself as a toddler with my Aunt Keatie. My mother emigrated from Ireland to Indiana in 1963. We spent many summers in my childhood visiting the relatives. I attribute my love for poultry to these experiences! Keatie always had a...

I thought you all might be an appreciative audience for my daughter's Powder Puff Pinecar.. She just had to model it after our fastest chicken, a cubalaya hen named Lightning. The face is made of a half a hickory nut dressed with some JB Weld. The worm is a scrap of wire.

Free to a good home, cockerel was born beginning of September. Stunning mix breed, half cubalaya, half RIR. "Shaggy" is a sweetheart who will jump in your lap for treats. His daddy has taught him to be a very cautious flock guardian. My boys don't just growl at hawks, they send the flock...

I did a search and cannot decide if it is safe. We have a year old gingerbread kit that includes prebaked slabs. They are hard and dry with no sign of spoilage. Can I give this to my chickens? I am thinking it would be really cool to ice and decorate with suet and birdseed, but I would have...

I just did look up "mirror and chicken" on here today, and only encountered a small thread in Run and Coop Construction. This has to be a fascinating topic!! After 2 years with chickens it finally occurred to me to wonder at their response to mirrors and windows. DUH My experience - my first...

Yesterday I got 4 eggs out of a metal barrel full of straw the ladies have adopted. They have been laying in it for a month. Then today they were all around fussing in the vicinity. i tok a look - NO eggs, but strong reek of cat pee. I guess I need to put in fresh straw

Phooey - thread title should read "Spanking"! I have had problems off and on all summer with a black rat snake stealing eggs, in one case losing several wooden fakes to it. The culprit must have vomited those, 'cause I finally caught him today. He was curled up practically under my broody hen...

I was at a local park and saw a huge roll of discarded conveyor belt uglying up the place. Could this be a good material for coop walls, floor or roof covering? It is some seriously heavy stuff, quite stiff, with a tough rubber coating. Doesn't seem to have a smell. If I figure out how to use...

I thought about posting on the Marans thread, but wanted to be able to track the answer and get the topic going... I love my young Marans, but am beginning to wonder about vigor and disease resistance. Leg feathering seems highly desirable, but among my little flock the feather-legged birds are...

I know everyone has hashed over earlobe color and egg color, but my cuckoo Marans has presented a new question. she has regular red earlobes and lays a brown egg like normal. But her earlobes this spring are turning almost purple red, with a white blush over top. She seems healthy and normal...

Something weird has been nagging at me as my hens fire up their spring production and bounty fills the fridge. We have a small mixed flock, a couple production reds, an Australorp and a presumably hatchery Cuckoo Marans that was sold to me as a BR. I rotate the eggs so we eat the oldest first...

I kept my girls cooped for 10 days after losing Tigger, our little 2 mo. old cockerel. He was hatched and raise by Digger, a blue partridge Marans. This morning it was snowing hard and I hadn't seen the hawk in a few days so I let the flock out to roam. About 1 pm myself and DH are sitting on...

I feel guilty and sad. For a few days I have kept my flock cooped after noticing several migrant hawks in our area. Today being a holiday with the whole family home, we went ahead and let the flock out. We were active outside and things were OK until we went in for a few minutes about 3:30. It...

We have only had chooks for a year now. It was about this time last year we took our rooster as part of a group destined for freezer camp. Then when he turned out to be a sweetie, we had to get him some girls. First a couple RIR, then in March a BR and Australorp. All were acquired locally as...

I have a (probably) stupid question. Does the partridge color ever occur in roosters among game fowl? A friend gave me a couple 4 wk old critters thinking that, due to comb and spur, they were roos. I keep looking around and never see partridge on game roos. They have this quail-like eye stripe...

OK, my kids' school gave them a baby dove that its' mama kept pushing out of the nest. For a whole 24 hours we have been feeding it a mash made of gamebird starter with a dab of yogurt. Am considering a trip to Richmond to acquire bird rearing mix. Is there anyone near Irvine or Clay City who...

Just got a new planer and am putting a dent in all the cupped, rough sawn lumber in my garage. Those shavings sure LOOK like bedding, but I know some species are a hazard to chickens (and woodworkers) - such as walnut and red cedar. I have lots of cherry - would that make good bedding?

I have made flutes with all kinds of stuff but would like to try some really LONG bird bones, like from ostrich, emu, cranes and such. Something domesticated and legal. Anybody?

I need a barred hen or pullet of any large breed or mutt. Prefer within 1.5 hr drive of Irvine/Clay City. I have a mean young roo I need to cull and my 6 yr old DD wants one that looks like him. The cockerel in question is a barred rock.