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Working with the restoration project Delawares we want the "rich yellow" legs the breed calls for. It seems all the chicks hatch with super yellow/orange legs, and then some gradually shift in various directions. Greenish yellow, brownish yellow, faded yellow, and reddish yellow (cockerels...

It's that time again when the hens are looking so rough I'm re-homing some of my roosters and thought I'd ask for opinions about which roosters other people would keep and which they would send away. I have: an older 1) Brown Leghorn; and 2) a younger Brown Leghorn (hatched here, but very...

We recently brought 5 Pekin ducks home from the feed store last week, two female and one male. They all seem to be doing so well, and then they die. It seems to take no time at all for them to go from running around peeping, drinking and eating eating ... to dead. What am I missing? What can...

One of my young friends has asked me to ask you a question for him ... He has a rooster set apart from his other birds, it is a hatchery bird bought as a chick, was raised with a few other roosters, has been alone in a cage since he was let outdoors, only has a few other roosters in adjacent...

Photos first, then the question (not the greatest photos as it is rather drab weather here this time of year and the female really blends with the environment) ... The Parents: Their Ducklings: These birds are supposedly production Rouen, but I am wondering if that's correct. There...

Saw a "no corn no soy" chicken food at the store today ... it uses Canola as the protein. Thoughts?

I'm not sure this is even an injury or disease question because it could just be molting ... and as a newbie I'm not familiar with how that looks: Our flock just started to lay in August. We have 60 chickens representing several breeds in the "General Population" area of the coop/run. One...

I followed my usual strategy of finding an awesome answer to this question here at BYC by googling it, but I didn't get a link to BYC, so thought I'd ask ... How will I be able to tell when my BBB turkeys are ready to be butchered? I got these turkeys in late May of 2012. Will they be ready...

We are planning a bantam coop. It will be attached to a run ... Our run can be pretty big ... but might be pretty seasonal. Right now we are planning to put our m/f Sebright pair in it along with four other bantams: a tiny D'Ucle female about the size of the female Sebright, a larger white...

There may be a thread about this already, but I couldn't find it: Are grocery-store egg prices going to raise dramatically in the next few years as new chicken housing regulations are phased in? We went to the state fair yesterday and were bonding with a representative for a local hatchery...

I should have started here before I jumped in with some huge posts elsewhere ... my bad! I'm Leslie from Sherwood, Oregon. I started a chicken coop co-op with some of the people who work for and with our farm (nursery). My little town is not yet chicken-friendly, but I live outside the city...

This is where the idea started: And this is where it ended up: The thing is I knew that somewhere under that big tangle of blackberries there were some abandoned greenhouses, and I knew they would make an excellent chicken coop. I love the idea of reclaiming some unused item from the...