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BYC's 2024 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along
Halloween Egg Decorating Contest!
Ends on November 2nd, 2024
How many ways can you decorate an egg? Well, if you're planning to decorate eggs for Halloween this...
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BYC’s 2024 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along
Haunted House or Creepy Coop Contest
Ends November 2nd, 2024
We'd love to see your artistic creations entered for a chance to win a prize. Three entries per member...
This is about a 6-year-old peach tree. Last year it bore normal sized and delicious peaches.
This year, they are half the size, still green, and one branch has broken already.
We should have thinned them had we known but raising peach trees in Wisconsin isn't a common thing. We just...
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Official BYC 2024 Summer Fair
Indoor Plant Show
Ends on August 25th, 2024
Do you adore your Aloe plant? Pamper your Philodendron? Spoil your Spider Plant? This is the perfect place to...
One of our cats recently chased a baby rabbit out of the farmer's field next to us. She hadn't bit it, just played with it apparently as it was twisted and crawling.
We rescued it, fed it fresh alfalfa (the field it was in), grass, carrots, and Chinchilla food. It ate like a little piggy...
I was just getting a link to copy for someone else on the Govees I own and saw this two-pack is 40% off, so they'd cost around $13.70 for both. These are Bluetooth only, not wifi, but have the same phone app with alarms you can set for high/low warnings for temp and humidity, tracks your temps...
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BYC's 4th of July Star Spangled Hatch-Along
Stars, Stripes, & Feathers, a Text-to-Image Contest
Ends July 5th, 2024
This is a RANDOM Winner Contest...
Calling all creative poultry...
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...
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 suggested...
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...