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Hello! Anyone else in Weirton WV who own chickens, please attend tonight's (Oct 12) city council meeting at the city building at 7. Because of ferral chickens in King's Creek, the city is planning a new ordinance. I do not know if they plan to ban all ownership although the way this is written...

Hello! I've already seen the 'poop' site, first thing so y'all know! One of my little red Cornish hens has a really dirty bottom and she's is kind of bald back there so its easy to see - its crusty, runny, brownish yellow and white ooze, no blood that I can discern, but there is a little stuck...

Have a lovely little white Jap named Sachi. She spent the whole day in the nest box, and was still in there this evening when my daughter went to check on her. My 9 year old LOVES the birds like a little mother hen herself, and was worried to death that Sachi had an egg stuck inside. I am...

We knew we needed to make nest boxes very quickly - the girls are getting very red in the face and they are finally developing combs and wattles. A few are even squatting. Soooo not having much money to spend, we looked around that marvelous treasure house, "The Man Cave" that we inherited...

This little banty was picked up over 2 months ago at the TSC bin (not sure of the exact age, 9 or 10 weeks or thereabouts). I thought it was perhaps a buff orp banty, but this little one has an odd kind of comb. It's just these two ridges above her beak. Behind and between those, it is...

I had to get the 4.5 week bantams out into the coop with the nearly 9 week standard pullets. My husband put up a large dog crate with small chicken wire around it to keep the little 'uns and the big 'uns separated for now. They were getting very close to flying out of the brooder box in the...

I am reasonably sure this topic is not new, but did do a search and didn't find what I was looking for. and I do hope I'm posting in the right place! What are the advantages/disadvantages of wood and metal nest boxes? Before we sink money into buying or spend the hours making nest boxes, we'd...

Some banties we still haven't identified from the TSC banty bin. I was told Ideal was the hatchery. I have looked & looked trying to identify these, but haven't come up with anything. Anyone else, now that they are older? Two views of the same bird. Probably a roo, as it has much bigger...

At what age do pullets begin getting red in their combs? I know that early red in the comb & early wattle formation indicates a roo, but when is it to be expected in the pullets? It has to happen sooner or later, and it would be good to know when to stop worrying that 'it could be a roo'. My...

I was supposed to get two brown sex links, but I only got one. We've ID'd every other hen in that order, but this one has us stumped as she isn't one of any of the breeds I ordered (which are listed in my signature) She isn't showing any real signs of being a roo, no dark red on her face or...

Thanks to Amarook ( )I now have two more banties. We were standing by a bin at our local TSC. We started talking chickens and ducks, mentioned the BYC and then realized we'd PMd each other over guinea pigs! Anyway, I saw a little silkie (think its a partrige) and a little yellow thing with a...

YAY! My awesome son, daughters and husband worked their butts off today getting the coop to the point where we could put the 4 week pullets into it! Today, my husband, with a lot of help from the kids, put up walls, installed old doublepane windows that had no frames (and managed to get them to...

Well, I joined the "I went to TSC for ___ and came out with 6 chicks" club! We were planning to get some silkies eventually anyway. We did find one, and hope it is a hen since we can't keep roos here. Anyway, we picked these little wee things: The Silkie - evil red eye on that chick...

http://www.wtov9.com/news/19186486/detail.html I live in WV, but just over the state line and came across this headline today while looking up something else. I don't know if there are many chicken owners in the Steubenville city limits, but 'farm animals' including chickens are to be off...

WAITING.... According to my purchase invoice, Ideal shipped my order of 13 babies (and any packing peanuts) today! But the payment money still shows in my account. No one called to say there was a problem, though, and it is probably just processing....yeah, still just processing....the...

One of the books I have (I think it's the Chickens in Your Backyard book - but I can't find it at the moment to be sure) mentions the possibilities of mixing cement powder with dirt, and then misting it and letting it harden. When it dries, it is supposedly a hard surface and much less...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=17470-a-west-virginia-coop I'll get more pictures up as we go and see if I can get the drawn plans I made scanned. They are in a blank 'journal' type book, in pencil, so I'll have to see how good a picture I can get. So exciting!

Just cleared building a coop with our city office. They were shocked to learn that our city code actually allows chicken coops and chicken ownership in the city. And that I found out about it all by myself. And knew the law. And had been doing my homework, and had the name of an extention...

Hi! My family and I bought a big house on an acre on a dead end with woods behind and to the dead end side in a little mill town in WV. We finally have enough set aside to start a little backyard coop & flock of layers. We just learned that city code still allows raising poultry (yeah, I live...