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I've got a 4 year old hen that is suddenly acting very strange. On friday night, I found her laying in the run, and while she usually comes running when she sees me, this time she barely moved. She tries to stand up but seems to have a hard time getting her legs underneath her. When she...

Ok - correct me if I am wrong but I have read that the NPIP test is for Salmonella Pullorum (and something else that starts with a "g"), not for salmonella enterditis. The enterditis is the one that is the subject of the recall and is passed from the hen into the egg. Can anyone verify...

A few questions regarding Wazine: 1) Can I leave out the gallon waterers that have Wazine in them for a week or so, and let the girls and boys drink over a period of time? I have other waterers out for them that don't have Wazine in them. 2) Why do you have to throw out the eggs for two...

Wheaton Marans Roosters for sale. We have 4 of them, plus 2 young roos about 3 months old. they are really beautiful birds. Very friendly and always curious. For pick up only near Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. If interested, please PM me or my brother (berkeleysprings). Thanks!

We found this thing on our front deck. Don't know what the heck it is . . . friend or foe . . . but it sure was cool looking. Does anyone have any opinions? Our place is in the Panhandle of West Virginia, near Berkeley Springs.

My brother (aka berkeleysprings) has listed eggs to sell on several occasions, and we now have some young roosters for sale. Three of them are 5-6 weeks old, have beautiful feathering on the legs and great color. We have one other young roo that is about 9 weeks old without the feathering on...

I just noticed this morning that one of my 3 week olds is limping. It's kid of holding its one leg away from it's body, and won't bear full weight on the leg. My three week olds have been in the same cage with some 6 week olds who are really energetic (one little roo in particular) and I am...

I have pretty white silkie roosters for sale/trade or free to good home. Both are about 7-8 months old very sweet, but are now starting to fight with our dominant silkie roo. So I need to find them good homes. If interested please e-mail me or send me a BYC Message

Hi - we're located near Berkeley Springs, WV and wanted to let you fellow WV'ers that we have a Cuckoo Maran Roo 6 months old and two 6 week old Wheatan Maran roos that we'd love to sell or trade if anyone would be interested. Oh - and when I say "we" I mean me and my brother...

We've got a 6 month old Cuckoo Maran Roo that we need to re-home. He's a beautiful bird, but we are trying to limit the number or Roos that we have and right now, he's after our silkie hens which we can't have. Also,we will have two 6 week old Wheaton Maran Roos that we will be parting with...

Can you all help me sex my 5 week old Maran chicks. I am thinking two cockrels and one hen. What do you think? [/img]

I've got two beautiful Americana Roos free to good home. One is Black and Brown, the other is black and white. They are under a year old (I'm estimating 8 months or so) and really beautiful sweet birds.

. . . our girls have been terrorized over the last month or so. We lost 6 chickens to a killer raccoon, including a brand new white silkie that was aparently pulled through the one small area of 2 x4 wielded wire that I missed fortifying with hardware cloth. (all we found were her white...

I have to vent! I few weeks ago, a &*#( Raccoon got into our coop/run and killed 5 of our 9 chickens while we were at work. I knew it was a Raccoon because of my brother's description of the kills (thank GOD he found them and I didn't!). The run was 2x4 wielded wire with deer netting on...

Let me preface this by saying that I'm new to chicken keeping. Last friday something got into the chicken pen and killed one of our chickens and mortally wounded another. The strange thing is that the fight appears to have taken place both in the fenced in area where the dead body was found...