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Corid 9.6% Solution Corid 9.6% Solution aids in the treatment and prevention of coccidiosis in poultry. If using on meat poultry, it is important to withdraw 24 hours before slaughter. There is no withdrawal period for egg laying hens. Read more about Amprolium on the Poultry DVM website...

Another thing I like about Silkies is they lay year round. A couple will lay for a few weeks, then go broody, then one or two more Silkies will start laying, then go broody, then another 1 or 2 start laying and go broody and by then the first group of Silkies will resume laying and the Silkie...

I have Corid on hand but used it only once years ago per our vet. Bloody poop is totally scary to me too!

That is puzzling why big birds lay smaller eggs. Our 4.5-lb Leghorns layed large, not XL, yet still larger eggs than hens that weighed more. The only XL egg layer we ever had was a big Blue Wheaten Ameraucana (my BYC avatar pic). After sampling a few breeds over the years we're back to Silkies...

Who knew chickens were so vain about their looks? Any window, any pair of glasses, any camera lens, or mirror gives them pause to stop and admire their reflections! Parking in front of the oven window Oooo -- My slippers are so pretty! Is this my new friend? And who are you? Two birds...

TeeHee - your stories are so cute! We aren't zoned for roo's so we were never able to experience keeping them, so I love everyone's roo stories! As for bantam broodies -- I like Silkies cuz they can't fly away where I don't want them, plus they lay a pretty decent size egg compared to tinier...

Whenever we bring a bird up close we wear cheap dollar store reading glasses for that very reason. They are fascinated seeing their own reflections in the glass yet your eyes are protected at the same time if they peck at the glass 🥸

If you wind up going take lots of pics & post for us poor old folks too far away to attend ❤️ :old

Bless your heart ❤️ I'm recuperating from a broken humerus and still in a splint brace so we can swap disability vibes. I'm typing with one finger !!! My DH as well has totally taken care of our hens and me for the past 2 months. You'll have to post some pics of your flock for us. Here's...

I LUV Ravioli...You can never talk enuf about her!!!

The 13+ years continued saga: 2014 -- With only 3 gentle temperament hens left after giving up our two lovely but bully Leghorns we needed to add at least one more bird. With one timid Ameraucana "Taffy" and two gentle Silkies "Violet" and "Mini" left in the yard what new breed(s) to introduce...

You are so good caring for your chicks :thumbsup As for predators -- we never had predators until we put chickens in the yard. Predators smell the chickens and the chicken food and all of a sudden we had predators! So don't think you won't eventually get predators. Foxes and dogs are very...

@Companihen -- your chicks are adorable doing all their happy dust bathing! I don't know what predators are in your area. We have chicken hawks, raccoons coyotes, opossums, feral cats, stray dogs, small rodents like rats, rabbits, squirrels -- my DD additionally gets skunks, poisonous...

@mrskenmore -- Penny Marshall POW YAY!

@ASP -- lots of things I would do differently but my ideas are mine alone. None of these ideas may be your cup of tea so just showing what we did in the past 13+ yrs of chickeneering. Your temps seem awfully high. At those temps I never put half grown birds outside. Matter is, we kept most of...

Once my DD had her lid upside-down on her trash can and the upturned lid filled with rain water. As I drove into the driveway the kitty jumped onto the lid and got soaked. That's not the funny part. The next day the lid was still full of water and she shocked herself with another dunking! Do...

Love the slippers and the little tail poofs at this age are too-oo-oo cute!

The 13-yr saga picks up in late 2013: After the Dominique chick "Xena" passed, we put "Taffy" the Blue Wheaten Ameraucana outside. She was about 11 months old here. So sweet and pretty. Taffy layed L/XL pretty blue eggs compared to the regular White Leghorn egg and tinted Buff Leghorn egg...

DH says TY! Dwarf Meyer Lemon tree. To deter rats we didn't plant sweet fruit trees cuz of rats/squirrels -- just pink grapefruit, meyer lemon, and hard shell pomegranate trees for chicken shade. Our Dominique "Dana" will reach for low-hanging pomegranate fruit and peck it to pieces. All our...

We have one of those only ours is a hen! OOPS! This one is real!