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Night before last, four bear cubs came bumbling into our yard. They seemed to be interested in a stone flower planter and one climbed up into it while the others ran around it and looked on. They were the size of a St. Bernard dog, maybe slightly bigger. We've had bear before a few times, but...

Happy Birthday, @Antiocheggers !

This is making it look like I'm an Amazon Associate and I'm not. Could the "we" be changed to BYC?

I own one and want another one. It's on sale today for a limited time at Amazon and Chewy for $479.45. $699.99 at Brinsea.

I've got quite a bunch of incubating going on as I've been buying eggs plus hatching my own. I'm having issues keeping track of it all. I would do another hatch along but that does take a lot of work and sometimes I don't give it as much time as I feel I should. Thus, a couple folks...

We need a temporary light for a temporary issue. It's a new mini coop in our breeding pen nearly 40' from the house. It's going to be a couple of weeks until hubby can put a window in. It's pretty dark in there even for chickens that know where to go in there. I've been putting camping...

I'm being asked to ship 3 nearly full-grown silkie chickens within the same state, 3.5 hours away. They know this would cost huge. I assume I'd go Overnight USPS, but I've never done this nor heard of it, and certainly not sure how I feel about sticking my 3 lovelies into a box and leaving...

I have 28 eggs set. :jumpy Come join my first-ever hatch-a-long! 18 silkie eggs were shipped and arrived this morning. 10 more are my silkie eggs and are part of an experiment. 18 SHIPPED EGGS KEY: B = Buff, C = Cuckoo, P = Paint Below them: O = 5 were soaked in Odoban disinfectant for 60...

Is anyone else having issues with shipping hatching eggs via USPS Priority Mail (1-3) days taking longer? In the past few weeks I have shipped off 3 boxes of eggs; two to New York and one to Alabama (from Wisconsin). Not one of them was on time. The first one to NY took 6 business days. The...

Earlier this afternoon, I was outside and saw Charlotte, a 10-month-old silkie hen, walking quickly between our yard and the farmer's field, headed for the road. I yelled at my hubby to look at that, where's she going all by herself? A rooster spotted her and made a beeline to chase after...

Do any of you who do crafts like crocheting, painting, etc., have sore hands or arthritis and wear compression gloves? I type from home for a job and an old hand injury is starting to ache so I was thinking of buying some compression gloves, but looked on Amazon and there are so many choices...

For silkies, vitamin deficiencies are always a concern but my breeder says she only gives them Hydro Hen and doesn't bother with vitamins above their grower feed. Twice now, out of 20+ chicks of hers, two of them were twitching heads and jumpy. I used Nutra Drench in their water for one day...

We use a DIY 5-gallon water bucket with nipples in our coop and it never freezes as our coop stays 40F all winter; however, we have a need for another water source for our outdoor breeding pen/temp coop that's going to start in February/March. Instead of making another 5-gallon nipple bucket...

We've had 7 silkies living the opposite side of the yard since March. Now they are almost 5 months old and winter is coming so...we shut the door to their temp coop. I got the sunflower hearts bag out (ultimate treat) and got them down to the coop. Getting them into the chicken door took a...

Last night, "Chewbacca," my mentally delinquent 4-month-old silkie, came flying into the garage and under the car my husband was under while changing oil, jumped into the oil pan, and became completely soaked in waste oil. We brought him in dripping with it and put him in the kitchen sink with...

Has anyone dealt with a macaw or parrot with kidney disease or disorder? We have two blue and gold macaws, Sophie, who is 15, I've had since she was 6 months. Julio was a rescue about 3 years ago from a sanctuary. About a year ago, I noticed he was out drinking her two water bottles to her...

We hatch our silkie eggs and in every batch of 12-15, there are always a few partridge and a few frizzles. This one only got half-frizzled, which I've never seen before. Is this some anomaly? Check out that shoulder action, like it's got wings on its shoulders. Other ones this age are solid...

I've never heard a chick sound like this, and all the other 17 in this batch I hatched are fine. It's 8 days old. It eats, drinks, poops, and acts normal. It does this almost non-stop the last few days. I saw another thread on this where the video never got posted, and the "ailment"...

A question for those that incubate. I've been using a Brinsea 56 EX to hatch many batches of silkies, and upon lockdown, I move them to the NR 360 so I can leave the rest in the Brinsea alone. That's been working great. Over a week ago, the neighbor farmer gave me 7 pekin duck eggs she...

I ordered 4 speckled sussex and 4 spitzhauben (similar to polish) pullets from our feed mill and got them yesterday (Friday) morning. Since they got home safe and into the brooder, 1 of the SS stands in the middle and cries while the rest are running around eating and drinking, and it goes...