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If you use a submersible aquarium heater to keep your watering system from freezing up (or are considering one), please read: I mis-calculated how much water our chickens would use while we were out of town. When I returned, I found the bucket nearly empty and the submersible aquarium heater...

My wife made this awesome treadle feeder. We later learned that the feed pan should be much deeper to reduce the birds from running their beaks through the feed, spilling feed all over the ground. I got tired of this, so I made this insert to reduce their ability to do this. They have to get...

Thanks in advance to anyone who can share their two cents of experience on this. If I am mixing my own feed and want to use some kelp meal in the formula as well as add in some Fertrell Nutribalancer, is there a downside or something to watch out for (other than increased cost) of using the...

On the browser version of BYC, there is a note at the top of each message that says "THREAD STARTER" if the person posting that message was the person who started the whole thread. Some threads I find are most worth reading from the original poster's point of view. This designation of "THREAD...

We have a bunch of roosters that we started processing for meat yesterday. We're both pretty new to this. After lots of reading on blogs and BYC and friends who have chickens...and watching videos, I finally felt ready to process the first chicken. This was months ago, with a Barred Rock hen and...

I was saddened today to find a chicken drowned in a stock tank today. We had a bad windstorm and perhaps he got scared or got blown into the tank. Or he bent down for a drink of water, fell in and couldn't get out. Poor thing. I've since covered the tank so it won't happen again. I found the...

They were hatched/mailed on Wednesday and arrived today, Friday. They were given water, chick starter and water mixed with egg yolk. Symptoms are chicks laying their side, unable to stand up, gasping. I thought most of them were dead but picking them up I see they are barely alive and/or...

I wrote this elsewhere on one of the nipple watering threads, but I thought it would be good to have it as it's own thread as well. The short version is our moderately cross-beaked Americauna can drink fine from the vertical nipples (the most common type of nipples, they install on the...

We have an 18-month old chicken than was fine a week ago. We are treating her for lice. Her symptoms are: - resting a lot in strange areas (spare mini coop, on the floor of the coop and now in a nest box) - obvious lice infection around her vent - not drinking or eating - not walking much...

EDIT: subject line should read, Please add navigation buttons also at the TOP of the thread Viewing on an ipad 2 ios 6.0.2 Especially on very long threads, such as the mealworm farming one with 109 pages/6000+ posts, getting around can be a chore. Here's what's happening. I want to read the...

It was 2F this morning. At 8am, later than usual, I brought out some house temperature (65F) fermented feed to them and they started going to town on it like they usually so. I also unblocked their dry feed. I came back 30 minutes later and noticed they had barely touched their FF nor dry feed...

I'm sure this is old news to some of you, but I just found these. There are a ton of free books available on Google Books, here are some related to chickens. They are all old books (copyrights have expired) and so they are a good resource of how chickens were raised before electricity was a...

So I've read a lot about how to do this and have a fairly good idea of where to put the knife, angle to put it at and how little force is needed and expected chicken reaction. There are several threads here on BYC with some good photos, but what I really want to see is a video. I've now watched...

I'd love to hear more from others who have used both systems and have a climate that freezes regularly. Some questions I have: The horizontal ones are spring loaded. Do the springs wear out (and how long have you been using them)? Do you think the spring is strong enough to cause undue stress...

Just saw a nice coupon for those of you in Spokane (they have Scratch n Peck feed): $5 off $20 purchase exp. 12/31/13 Or save 10% every Wednesday Northwest Seed and Pet on Sprague or Division Coupon is in the Nov issue of Bountiful Life, I think it was an insert in one of the free classifieds...

So the temps were in the mid to upper 90's. We had someone checking on the birds and told them they could have the eggs but they never took any. So they just sat there, in the heat for nearly a week. They're unfertilized. From what I've read online, commercial eggs don't see refrigeration for...

I had another user direct me to her signature line to view a link. When I clicked on her username then to her about page, there is very limited information compared to th desktop view. I did not see her signature line. This led to some frustration on my part until I figured out there was a big...

The nice lady who gave us these birds must have thought we knew about feed. We have two 12-week olds and the others are about 10 months old. We didn't know any better and have been feeding them all layer feed. I just pulled the feed and will go get a bag of starter or grower feed tomorrow and...