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Death Layers; could there be a more awesome breed name? Well, I’m the proud papa of 10 of the gold variety who just hatched and I want to give them names that match the sheer metal of their breed name. As I’m not really a heavy metal aficionado, I’m counting on the community of chicken keeping...

I’m looking for a couple of barn cats in the Kansas City area for pest control out in my run. Is anyone familiar with adoption programs in the KC area?

I’ve been having several issues with BYC when I try to post on an iOS device. For example, I’m posting this on my iPad, and just now it completely went out of what I was trying to post. That means the keyboard on my iPad goes away, and I can’t enter anything. When I try, it’s very iffy as to...

OK, so I got a dozen mixed bantam, hatching eggs, and got these five out of the mix. The items description was a mix of the following breeds: old English game bantams, mille fleur d’uccle, gold and silver Sebright, Indian red jungle fowl, Easter Egger bantams, Cochins, serama, and silky frizzled...

Hey, is anyone else going to the chicken wrestling contest in St. Louis on May 12?

This is day, 14, and I’m pretty sure that all my eggs have bit the dust. I just have this one that I have a small amount of hope for. What do you think? I don’t see movement in any of the eggs, and they don’t appear to have grown any bigger. This is my 1st time incubating, so I don’t want to...

Let me start off by saying I am far from an expert; I've been keeping chickens for about a year and a half. I've been a reading BackYard Chickens during almost all of that time. I've learned a few things along the way, mostly enough to be dangerous. But it's that learning curve that I really...

I bought an order off of My Pet Chicken, and they made a mistake when they sent it to me. I had ordered a Welsummer chick, but they sent me Zilla instead. I’m not complaining about the hatchery; they acknowledged the mistake and made it good. I’m not 100% sure what Zilla is, but I’m betting on a...

My flock, due to an over abundance of roosters, had shrunk considerably, so I decided to expand a little. I ordered a bielefelder, a speckled sussex and a dark brahma and they arrived, along with a bonus bielefelder, back around the middle of March. It was a cold spring here in Missouri, but I...

I've had success using the mama heating pad method in the past, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. However, the batch of chicks I raised before knew after one night they needed to go inside because nighttime temps were getting close to freezing. My present week-old batch wants to...

The weather, here in Missouri, never ceases to amaze me. We went from 50 degrees on Sunday to 90+ on Monday. All in all, it's been a cold Spring and then we leapt right into Summer. In the run, I've got temperature controlled fans running but nothing in the coop. I've got a broody hen in...

Never having done this before, I thought it best to ask before I actually do it. I've got a broody hen who I've had sitting on fake eggs because she decided to go broody in the coop right in front of the egg boxes, and she kept swiping eggs the other chickens laid to brood over. Right now, she...

I'm not sure if this has been answered anywhere else, but I've been brooding my chicks out in the covered run under a mama heating pad. At this point, I just leave the door to the brooder open and they free range with everyone else; returning to the brooder box at night. They're almost nine...

Has anyone ever seen really aggressive baby chicks? Mine are about 2 weeks old and every time I put my hand in the brooder they totally attack it to the point they’re starting to break the skin. The biggest chick is now attacking all of the smaller chicks, except for the next two biggest. They...

I’ve just gone through a situation that seriously made me question the basic survival instincts my chickens possess. Fortunately, I turned out to be the dummy, not the chickens, but it made me wonder if there are chicken breeds noted for their intelligence or lack thereof?

I decided I was going to brood my chicks in the 10’ x 20’ enclosed chicken run, so I built a 2’ x 4’ brooder box (open on 2 sides) and a mama heating pad assembly. We got chicks via mail yesterday, which went right into the box. Yesterday, it was about 73 outside and 80 in the run and...

While I personally am not offended by dirty jokes, there are people that are (cough *wimps*). This thread is for those jokes that are off-limits for your kids, but are something you’d tell your brother or sister’s kids. For example: “What is a fart, but a turd calling ahead for reservations?”...

Hi everybody, If you're familiar with it or not, 3D printing can be very complimentary to chicken keeping. Many common items, such as watering nipples, can be 3D printed and many of the designs are free. If you're just in it for the cool figurines, there are actually some pretty nice ones...

This is Onyx again. I posted a series of pictures trying to sex Onyx and called her a new jersey giant. That’s what she was sold to me as at least. I was told she wasn’t a NJG. Anyway, if she’s not a New Jersey giant, what is she? She does have quite a bit of color around her neck and her black...

This is Onyx. . He/she is 8 1/2 weeks old. I’ve gotten some better shots of him, but I think his feathering is interesting. Onyx has always been a very standoffish bird. I’ve heard that New Jersey giants are supposed to be very friendly. Unless, of course, it’s a rooster. Any help?