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Hello, this is Lucy. Lucy is a bonafide chicken herder. I've never heard of one before but I assure you, she is one. I was always reluctant to let her out when the chickens were free-ranging in the late afternoon because she's only a year old and full of energy. She may be bonafide but...

One of our guinea hens somehow got a string wrapped around both her feet yesterday. I went down to get eggs and found her hanging upside down from one of the cleats on the ramp going up to the coop door where she'd gotten it caught. I must have dropped it inside the run when I opened a bag of...

I'm looking for a young Polish roo if someone here in central NC has one. Must be young. He will will be caring for the needs of 24 BSL's pullets who just started to lay. The wife relented and said I could have one but it'd better not attack her when she goes out to the run. Please respond...

Before the format of BYC Forums changed there was a link down at the bottom of the page so you could see all of your posts and go directly to them if you were logged on. That seems to have gone away. Now the only way I can see to do that is to go to My Profile and go to my list of posts that...

Any ideas on how to encourage my five guineas to go in to the coop at night? It's getting colder and I want them to go in for the night but I just can't get them to go. They're in the same run as 24 BSL pullets and there doesn't seem to be any problems between them and the BSLs. The guineas...

Well, we're back in the chicken bidness. Two weeks ago we got 24 BSL started pullets from Shook Poultry over in Claremont, NC. They're now 17 weeks old and probably another 8 weeks from laying. All 24 seem to be very healthy and have vigorous appetites. Just hope they start laying soon to...

Well, last night Teresa came in and said she could only account for four of the ten-week old guinea keats. These were roosting on a wooden 2x2 I stretched out in one corner of the run. They don't like to go into the coop at night and seem to prefer sleeping on the outside roosting bar. We...

I've not had guineas before but we have five of them now. They're about nine weeks old and we've been keeping them in an enclosed run where we had our chickens before. Our hens would always come back to the run at night to roost even though they'd been out free-ranging for hours. Normally...

Well, we'll be back in the chicken business this fall. I ordered and paid for twenty-four black sex links from Shook Poultry nearby in Claremont, NC. They'll be eighteen week-old started pullets. From everything I've read the BSL's are just as good of layers as the Golden Comets (RSL's) we've...

Sorry, no pics for the moment but I can get them if necessary. We have 29 GC's and 2 or 3 of them have something going on with their crop area. They're losing feathers just above their crops and it looks like they've been picked out. I've examined them closely and I can't see any mites or...

I'm sure a lot of you have been reading various articles and watching articles on the national news about the salmonella outbreak and the massive egg recall. As far as I can tell this thing has been the result of one man thumbing his nose at the consumer and the USDA and the FDA. The man's...

Has anyone used Baking Soda in their run to keep down the smell, etc? I'm wondering if a big box of A & H baking soda would work to keep down the smell. BS is cheap for a big 12lb bag for less than $7 and it is food grade. I don't know what effect it may have on chickens though. A large bag...

Sunday morning I got up and started working early on adding a nesting box to the side of our 4'x8'x4' coop. It was just going to be a simple nesting box about 40"x13"x16" and connected to the side of the coop with a cleat. It would have a hinged lid so we can get to the nests without going...

Something I thought might be of interest to some of you. Here in the Carolinas we've been having another of those winter blasts that blew in on Friday night. We have 8 inches of snow and that's now crusted over and probably won't be melting anytime soon. It's been down in the low teens on...

It's been miserable cold here in the Carolinas today and it's supposed to be no higher than 32 F for the next three days followed by high 30's for the week. It's also supposed to be down in the low to high teens for the next week at night. So this morning we decided we were going to try adding...

I know this has been posted before or something like it but I'll do it again since the timing is appropriate. This morning I went out and put out fresh layer pellets, cracked corn, and water before letting the Gals out of the coop. We have 19 Gold Comet pullets, all less than a year old...

I went to Wally World the other day and came back with a Weather Channel Wireless Temperature Station for $24.95. I mounted the transmitter in my coop on the back wall above the Gals' heads. My coop is about 75 feet from the house but this unit transmits up to 300 feet. It uses two AA...

What are Red Sex Links? Where did the name come from? Does anyone have any history on the name? I have 19 Gold Comets. Are they considered RSL's?

Well, maybe not the Taj Mahal but it's finally done and the hens are a bunch of happy gals!!! I'd built the coop early last spring and attached it to a 8x16' run with tarps giving it cover. Worked great until it rained and the whole thing became a muddy mess. I added sand and that helped but...

Does anyone near Statesville, NC have guineas for sale? We have 19 chickens and we'd like to add two to four guineas to our herd.