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Pelletized Bedding / ShavingsI've been using straw bedding for about a year now. Hens like it and when it is fouled, it goes around the plants. The straw decomposes and the...
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Thank you for providing this update! I opened it as soon as you posted it, but only tonight did I read the entire piece. I’ll be learning a lot...- tranquiliti
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The Platform Ducks - from zero to duck in an instance!I love seeing folks reuse, repurpose, and/or reinforce prefabbed coops to suit their particular needs. Am currently doing a project using 2...- Knobby
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Killer in the Shadows. How My Flock and I Learned to Deal With Marek's DiseaseYou are to be commended. You have done all you can do and I salute your determination. There is the line of thought that resistance or a degree...- microchick
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How To Introduce New Chickens to an Existing FlockA beautifully and even professionally written article! I was thinking of writing an article myself on this very topic for a contest, and I read...- BigBlueHen53
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Suitable explanation of the nutritive benefits of homemade flock feed, backed with data from testing. I may become a convert yet!
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How Bad Are Snakes?Very informative! I love the message. It could use a bit of editing, mostly punctuation such as when Logar said "cat like" when they should have...
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Board And Batten Coop On 4x4 RunnersSome additional ventilation would be a good idea but otherwise, a nice coop.
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BYC FREE & Premium Feather Memberships (PFM)
- BYC Support
- Updated
- 2 min read
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Membership on BYC is completely FREE (click here to join)! As a free member you'll see fewer ads (for example, the anchor footer ad at the... -
Introducing a Single Hen to an Existing Flock
- azygous
- 4 min read
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- Reaction score: 123
- Comments: 35
- Reviews: 30
On December 18, 2015, a friend and I embarked on a long trip of several hundred miles to pick up a two-year-old Buff Orpington hen at an animal... -
Hens Passing Away Due to Old Age: What to Expect
- The Chickens' Maid
- 4 min read
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- Reaction score: 63
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In memory of Henry. So, you’ve done everything right. You’ve maintained your flock well; they’re healthy, fat, and happy old women. You should... -
-NEEDS EDIT- Lean-To Coop
- OhZark Biddies
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- 12 min read
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Our lean-to coop and covered run was built on to an old shed, and we have 19 chickens and one chipmunk scratching about in there, but in the long... -
Common Chicken Sayings Idioms Other Funny Things We Say
- BYC Support
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Chicken Idioms and other Funny Things We Say We've been amazed at how many common everyday sayings originated from people who owned and raised... -
Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging
- MyISAbrownhens
- 6 min read
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- Reaction score: 60
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Many people out there long to have our feathered clucking friends, but may not be able to free range the flock as most people are able to do... -
To Insulate or Not to Insulate...
- mpruett
- 4 min read
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To Insulate or Not to Insulate… That is the question we are faced with when first starting out with chickens. Three winters ago I was new to... -
The Old Homestead Coop
- TwoCrows
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- 4 min read
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Recently, (2013) I decided to get my chickens out of the "Frost-Bite Motel" and into a REAL coop. This was my first coop build, as originally when... -
A Viewpoint on Handling Roosters: How to Deal with Aggression
- BantyChooks
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Roosters can become aggressive and attack people. This article covers why they become aggressive, the warning signs before an attack, and what to... -
Coop Stack Up - how high stuff works well?
- aart
- 2 min read
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- Reaction score: 94
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Pasting some notes into an article for easy linking. Here's my theory on the 'stack up' aspect to coop design, and a couple other dimensions and... -
The Chicken World's Worst Chore, culling the injured and sick babies.
- duluthralphie
- 5 min read
- Views: 36K
- Reaction score: 76
- Comments: 61
- Reviews: 24
I have just had to to the worst job of bird rearing. I was forced to cull a 4 day old turkey. We tried everything, it's feet and legs would not... -
Chicken Wisdom
- sue giebler
- 5 min read
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CHICKEN WISDOM This journey with chickens began as a surprise really. My neighbors built a house the next field over and soon had chickens... -
Beak and Claw Trimming
- TwoCrows
- 9 min read
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Beaks and Claws...every bird has them! Birds use their beaks for grooming, they explore their environment with their beaks, they can feel textures... -
Judys Free Pallet Chicken Coop
- BYC
- 5 min read
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Building a chicken coop from free pallets: By Judy I am fortunate to live near a vinyl siding company, and they stack stacks of pallets outside... -
Using Deep Bedding in a Small Coop
- 3KillerBs
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Why, Why Not, and How-to use Deep Bedding in a small chicken coop. -
Selecting Good Flock Roosters
- Redhead Rae
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When selecting roosters for your flock, many people only consider the breed or the confirmation of the bird (when selecting for the Standard Of... -
The Chick Inn
- Sussex7
- 5 min read
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- Reaction score: 49
- Comments: 34
- Reviews: 21
Design Since my wife and I moved into our fixer home we knew we wanted chickens but building a chicken coop ended up a ways down the initial... -
From coop to kitchen: Pets versus livestock and respectful chicken harvest
- BigSkyBird
- 13 min read
- Views: 16K
- Reaction score: 43
- Comments: 16
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During our recent visit from Montana to my sister's home in Seattle, my nephew complained to my daughter, "Your chickens keep dying." My daughter...