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Happy Day to all! Had to share some great news! My youngest just took two cockerels to the Douglas County Fair after days of primping, bathing, combing! Good news - both the blue orp cockerel and the iowa blue cockerel took blue ribbons. Very excited for my youngest as this is his first...

Chicken Danz - absolutely agree. She needs to be a quite place by herself until moving freely - just make sure she doesn't need to jump down from anything. I likened it to a human stress facture. My black orp girl wouldn't roost at night, but had to go up about 20" to the nesting box. The...

Chickenmamma1662 - I had an large black orp which exhibited the same syptoms last fall. Upon advice of others with large orps, I isolated her in a place where she could not roost and did not have to fly up or jump down. The theory is that with the large birds, the landing off roosts can cause...

Just wanted to say "hello"! You all are busy! I don't post much, but try to skim along and follow. And now that I am chasing one of Danz's puppies (YEAH!!!), time is even shorter to sit at the computer... My thoughts and good wishes going to all of those who need it!

Hello to everyone! Welcome to the new faces and welcome back to those that haven't been on in a while! Tonya - been thinking about joining one of the hatch alongs! Just what I need to do! LOL...

Hello Everyone! And a big WELCOME to BYC for all the new members. So glad you found the Kansas thread! My how the pages fly - hard to believe I had missed like 5 days and this thread went absolutely nuts! Love all the conversations! Keep it coming!

Welcome to BYC Emille57! Always glad to have more Kansans. You will find us from all around. I am just north of Baldwin City!

Quote: Welcome Clairedazzle!!! You will find many of us from the Lawrence area and throughout Kansas! Overall, BYC is a great place to acquire and share knowledge as well as just chat! Hope you enjoy!

Just caught this article on another BYC thread... I found it pretty interesting and thought I would share. sometimes as we are discussing illnesses and issues with birds, I wonder if we need to return to some old ways of poultry keeping...

Congrats Ivywoods! Don't you just love the first eggs from a girl? Definitely a great week!

Welcome Dancing! I am sure many on here will have chicks in the spring to fill your order!

Hawkeye, I had a cuckoo maran get scalped over the summer by the alpha roo. She was young and not submissive and he was a bit, well, agressive with her (just with her for some reason). The back of her head and part of the neck was flapping. We segregated her, cleaned it and kept her segregated...

Sorry Hawkeye...hoping for the best! Good luck Chickendanz nursing yours along. Have a great evening!

BLUE EGGS!!! YAHOOO...only took 7 months for my blue wheatens! God bless those little girls!

Quote: In my most humble opinion... For mature hens, I don't supply extra heat, just a heated dog bowl to keep the water unfrozen. I tend to agree with many posters on BYC that the cold is harder on the humans then it is on the chickens! Mother nature equipped them with what they need to...

LN2008 - I live in the country and many think we are nuts for having chickens. However, I just keep talking "chicken". I understand about shutting the girls up at night - we have talked about investing in an automatic door, but haven't yet. It's just easier, and less expensive, to find...

Quote: When we go on vacation, we set up big waterers and feeders, but we also have neighbors or other chicken friendly families check in on the flock. The checking in was just more to ease our human minds! But just in case something got knocked over, in the chicken run/coop, etc. I liked to...

Midday funny for you all... Just gave the flock some apple peelings and left overs from making apple butter this morning. In my mixed laying coop, there was utter happiness and the teen age blue wheaten ameraucanas ran around like the teenagers they are with apple peelings hanging out of their...

Awesome day! Iowa Blue hatching eggs arrived yesterday and will be getting set! We are so excited to hatch out this breed and help in its preservation. Also very interested in seeing if their midwest selected genectics result in better weathering of the mother nature at its extremes. Suppose...

Just to join in the comminserating about waiting on eggs - 6 month old blue wheaten ameracaunas and no eggs