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I've always loved cairn terriers and have an opportunity to adopt a puppy but….I have poultry who free-range and have spent years making sure any addition to the household is poultry-safe. I'm interested in hearing from those who have cairns to know if there is any possibility they can be good...

A few days ago I started having an issue with Safari crashing any time I am in a reply field on any BYC thread. History: used Safari for 6 months – never had this issue until 3 days ago. I can browse any other website without issue. I can post on Facebook without issue, or reply to an email...

I've been a Palm user for more than a decade. What kept me loyal was the ability to sync my phone from one model to the next via the software installed on my computer, so that getting a new phone was as simple as charging the phone and synching it, and I was ready to go. My calendar for the...

This week I was thrilled to learn I am the recipient of a Spirit award. Unfortunately, it is not showing up in my profile most of the time. About one time in 20 that I submit a new post, it will be there, and then I will reply to another post and its gone again and I don't see it for a day or...

I know at first blush that sounds gross but....I've seen the mess ducks make of their OWN swimming water when it starts out clean and they quickly turn it into their very own sewer pond. So it got me to wondering if ducks can live on a sewer pond? Our pond is securely fenced per our county...

Ever since the migration, I've been having issues with the search function. It used to be that when you searched on keywords, it would bring up the list of topics that met the criteria and when you clicked on the link, it would take you to the post in which those keywords were used. Now, the...

Every flock should have their own solarium, dontcha think? I found this shower door set out to the curb by one of my neighbors on trash day a couple of years ago and thought "cold frame", so grabbed it and brought it home. Who knew an old shower door would be so handy to have around? I never...

I really hope this is not one of those "newbie" questions that has been asked and answered a hundred times. I couldn't think of keywords to type in to the search bar to get the answer I'm looking for.... I've kept chickens on and off all my life and I know there is a huge difference between...

I've a question for BYC'ers as a sort of poll. Here is the situation: DH and I are currently looking at real estate. Now, the one thing I have never wanted is a backyard pool. I don't like to swim, but even if I did, I just don't want the maintenance headaches that a pool entails. So when...

DH and I love peppers so this year I grew a ton - different varieties, multiple plants for each variety - well, you get the picture. They need such a small space and produce so heavily for a small plant that it was too easy to go wild with them. Now I'm dragging them into the house by the...

For days now I have been trying to come up with a word and while its on the tip of my tongue, it never quite comes to me. The word I am looking for describes a pattern of behavior wherein one continually repeats the same negative behavior. An example might be a woman who goes from one abusive...

*Please note:* While I really appreciate the added input to this thread, and hope the information will remain useful for other people in a similar situation, this is an older thread, and we actually adopted our new dog 2 1/2 weeks ago and are really enjoying having her in our lives. Please see...

I hatched this pullet so I know down to the day EXACTLY how old she is. Yet every time I look at her I am surprised by how, um, mature she looks for her age. Her sisters, who hatched the same day look every day their age. In other words, they look like they won't lay for quite some time yet...

I ordered some quail eggs from a seller on eBay and they arrived today. They were packaged well and arrived mostly intact (the auction was for 25+, I received 30 with one cracked). The seller packaged them in the little 10-egg plastic cartons, so there were three of those, each one wrapped in...

I know its a pain to have to click on a link to get to the meat of the question but I hope some knowledgeable people will humor me :-) I bought some of these eggs to incubate awhile back. The chicks are now 8 weeks old. At the time I bought them, the only picture they were running was of the...

I've never purchased anything on Etsy before but on Saturday saw something I wanted to get so I signed on with an account, confirmed the purchase and paid by PayPal immediately. I wasn't too concerned when the weekend went by and I didn't hear anything from the seller - I know what its like to...

I'm hopeless when it comes to genetics so I'm going to ask those in the know. Would a Brown Leghorn rooster over a Barred Rock hen produce sex linked chicks? If not, does anyone have any idea what they would look like? Also, I think Brown Leghorns lay white eggs, but BR's lay brown so what...

Went to collect eggs and in the nest box with the eggs was one of these: When I broke it open, this is what it looked like: I've been researching these and see there is a wide variety of possibilities. Everything from a diseased ovary to a tumor to an internal egg laying problem. I first...

I'm currently brooding chicks for the 6th time in two years and I've tried a variety of methods. With this batch of chicks, I did the usual "paper towel over wood chips" method that is so popular. After the first few days I found myself reluctant to remove the paper towels due to the memory of...

Okay, so I know that Easter Eggers are NOT a breed in and of themselves, but rather a "mutt". I also know that not all mutts "breed true" - i.e. sex-links. So if an Easter Egger and a RIR get together and produce a chick that has green legs and a rose comb, is that chick also an Easter Egger...