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Circumstances change and this is particularly true for young people as life demands they make changes such as going to college, getting a job, leaving home and forming relationships outside of the family. What were their pets and hopefully their responsibilities can suddenly become yours...

I've asked this question before via pm to a mod but haven't had a reply. When I've published an article while it appears in the article section without problems but not in the list in the new articles tab. As an example this article was published on Sunday 05/06 and it didn't appear in the New...

Some of the pictures in this article are showing for some people but not others. They all show for me. What needs to be done to sort this out? https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/flat-pack-coop-takedown-and-appraisal.78406/ Never mind. I can see the problem.

@TudyBOT How many times have you been corrected after giving an answer to a question?

Whatever one thinks about the idea of Internet friends there isn't much doubt that many people make genuine friendships here on BYC. Some members have been coming here for over a decade and may have got to know many of the regular posters. I've already seen quite a few disappear and I can't help...

Any advice on how to get her head out?

Apparently not with dogs. I've never believed it does with chickens either. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01193-1

In April 2021 I returned to the UK having spent the last ten years living with and studying various groups of chickens on a small holding In Catalonia Spain. Some of you may have read some of my posts and seen pictures of what I call The Tribes, in my house and free ranging on the land. I’ve...

For a great many chicken health topics we get our information from research done by or with the chicken egg and meat producing companies. Most of the hens I know of that go through a particularly heavy moult do so in their second year and most battery hens are killed at this age because egg...

From time to time an alert shows up saying someone is following me. How can I find who is following me in my profile?

I've just read this article by Perris. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/raising-a-blind-or-partially-sighted-chicken.75986/ When I got to the end I wanted to rate the article but couldn't find the Rate Article button. I found it eventually at the top of the page. I assume the button...

There are 19 different pictures in this post. When I scroll through them some pictures repeat and sometimes the last 5 pictures don't display. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fluffy-butt-acres-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-22273415

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this behaviour. There is a very large concrete basin full of water close to the duck houses. The design of the ducks houses means the ducks sleep on the floor; not ideal I know. I try to clean them out twice a week. Each time I clean the ducks houses and...

Annual Outstanding BYC Member Award. It seems BYC loves it’s badges and awards. One of the great things about BYC is the data available by which, if one wanted, one could assess the contributions made by individual members. There are rounds of applause and merit given to maximum post counts...

The next National Park North of where I live use net guns to catch injured birds. Someone else I know on the next mountain uses a net gun for their flock of semi feral chickens. Has anyone had any experience using these and what were their impressions? https://thenetgunstore.com/

Ask what determines a hens egg laying cycle on most forums and you will most likely be told that it is governed by light levels. What exactly does this mean? Some will state it’s a matter of the length of light hours. Some suggest it’s the intensity of the light. Some suggest that it’s a change...

https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/women-in-poultry-how-backyard-poultry-empowers-indias-rural-women

I read a lot of posts where people say they keep chickens so they can supply meat and eggs for their families. Take a family of four. I’m going to take an arbitrary minimum of one chicken per person per week as the point where one can still call oneself a regular eater of meat. This if managed...

One of the strangest and unexplained chicken behaviours is fence fighting. I'm interested in other peoples experiences of this behaviour.

Some of the chickens I look after are growing old. I recently had a hen die at about 11 years old and I have a few in the 7 to 10 years old range. My policy here has been to provide a home for the elderly whether they still lay eggs, or not, until they either die of old age, or contract medical...