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Treating bumble foot in ducks:I am currently doing this with my Pekin, one foot is pretty bad, it's traveling up his leg, will it still be OK to continue soaking and putting...
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My experience using a no-crow collarWhere I live, the sun comes up at 4.30 in June. Way before most people want to wake up. All the cockerels I kept as long as possible started to...- BDutch
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My experience using a no-crow collarMy roosters did not awaken too early at all or crow too early. Each one is different but again, I was ok with day crowing.
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My experience using a no-crow collarI have been reading a lot on ‘no crow collars’ and other rooster collars several years ago. I had cockerels each hatch and live in a small town...
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Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise ChicksGood article. I had a rooster which was killed by coyote about a month ago, lo and behold he had mated with my hens before his death. Hens were...
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Sour Crop, Impacted Crop, Doughy Crop - Prevention and Treatments of Crop disordersA must-read for anyone with crop issues!- Debbie292d
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Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks OutdoorsWonderful article! We can't wait to try these suggestions with our next round of chicks! Thank you for sharing!
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Green Roof CoopIt looks pretty neat but more explanation of how you built this would help, as well as photos of the finished product and how your chickens like it.
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Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the Behavior
- azygous
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Each spring I see countless cries for help from people with a day-old baby chick who is terrorizing the other chicks in the brooder, pecking at... -
How To Raise Baby Chicks: The First 60 Days Of Raising Baby Chickens
- BYC Support
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Raising Baby Chickens—The First 60 Days Getting and raising chicks is exciting and may even be a little nerve-wracking time for backyard... -
Things I wish I knew before I got my first chick
- ckhd
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New chicken owners – heads up I recently got back in to chickens. I previously had them when I was a child (well, my family did and I helped)... -
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Wry neck - Causes, treatment and prevention.
- Yorkshire Coop
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What is wry neck? Wry neck is a condition that is often referred to as “crook neck” and it typically affects ducklings and baby chicks, although... -
Dust bathing – Why, where and how? Keeping your flock clean and happy.
- KayTee
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We all know that chickens love to dust bathe – and very frequently in the areas of our garden that we would prefer they didn’t! So why do they do... -
Introducing New Chickens: Using the “See but don’t touch” Method
- Mountain Peeps
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Introducing New Chickens: Using the “See but don’t touch” Method Chicken keeping is addicting. Along the road of your own chicken raising... -
How to Correctly Wrap a Chicken's Foot!
- TheOddOneOut
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PTFE Toxicosis (Teflon Poisoning) in Chickens
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What is PTFE? How can it harm my chickens? Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE, often known by the brand name Teflon, is a synthetic polymer often... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
- Blooie
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I brooded my first chicks the way most of us learned to brood chicks...in the house, in a big box, with a heat lamp. It was a hoot at first... -
Cold Weather Poultry Housing and Care
- Alaskan
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A How-to Article Part 1: building a coop Part 2: cold weather care Part 3: poultry and breed selection Link to my three coop pages... -
Information on Chicken Eyesight
- Mountain Peeps
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Chicken eyesight is amazing! They can see better in color than humans, can detect and see light and color shades better than humans, have three... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks
- Mountain Peeps
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks Well, it’s that time of year. The chicks are in, we’ve fallen in love with their adorable appearances... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
- Sally Sunshine
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Deep Litter Method - The Easiest Way To Deal With Chicken Litter
- Dawn419
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The Deep Litter Method DLM is basically a method in which you allow your coop litter to build up over a period of time. As the chicken manure and... -
Dealing with and Taming Aggressive Roosters
- TwoCrows
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We see it a lot here on BYC, "Help! My cuddly "Simon" the chick has grown up to be an aggressive monster! What do I do?!" The first step in... -
Diy hobbit house chicken coop
- chickencheeper
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In this article I will be going through the steps to building our hobbit house chicken coop. First we laid down the concrete footers and put the... -
What a Chicken's Comb Can Indicate
- Mountain Peeps
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What a Chicken’s Comb Can Indicate The comb, or the red crown atop a chicken’s head, can indicate many things. But before we look at these...