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A sealed 5 gallon bucket full of vaporized ether? I hate to rain on your parade... but what you essentially have there is a BOMB. And given plastic's ability to store a static charge, you might even have an unstable bomb. No thanks... I'll stick with the hatchet... at least I know there's...

TeaChick, thanks for the interest in my coup design (A Classy A Frame Tractor)... always nice to know that someone likes your ideas. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, I'll be glad to give you some pointers on building it.

Hi Ladyearth, Regarding questions about my "Classy A-Frame Tractor", The coup will hold 12-15 chickens, but you would be cleaning it every week with that many as the floor area is only 32 sq ft. I have 9 in mine. It's a bit big to use as a secondary coup - I use mine as the primary coup and...

Thanks for the nice comments folks - I'm pleased that some people are finding my design useful. Sorry Farmer52... I haven't been on here much lately - but I'll try to answer your questions for others who might have the same questions. For roost space, I put cross-members on the triangles that...

Hi All, I've got a sick chicken that I've got an anti-biotic regimen and I'd like to get some "good bacteria" into her gut. I know a lot of folks recommend yogurt for this, but yogurt can reduce the efficiency of tetracycline. I've seen mention that young chicks get good bacteria from their...

Quote: If you're giving tetracycline as the anti-biotic you should reconsider dosing it in yogurt or other high calcium food - the calcium can severely reduce the action of the tetracycline.

Review: Hi all, I got a sick 30 month old sex-link chicken. Her symptoms are being lethargic, "sleeping on her feet" during the day, hunched over and fluffed up, no appetite and a runny mustard yellow poo. I've read that this fits worms and also cocciidios.... Now: She's been on the...

Hi all, I've got a sick 30 month old sex-link chicken. Her symptoms are a bit vague but seem to fit both worms and also cocciidios... but no definite evidence for either. so I'm wondering if I can treat her for both at the same time rather than wasting time on possibly the wrong...

Hi all, I got a sick 30 month old sex-link chicken. Her symptoms are being lethargic, "sleeping on her feet" during the day, hunched over and fluffed up, no appetite and a runny mustard yellow poo. I've read that this fits worms and also cocciidios.... so I'm wondering if I can treat her...

Don't beat yourself up too much about it - there may very well have been nothing you could have done that would have saved her. Some chickens just suddenly die for no apparent reason. I had an 18 month old sex-link do this last year. One minute she was an active normal chicken and 15 minutes...

"Bruster" is still looking for a good home.

Beautiful bird, 16 weeks old, fairly tame, laid back. Not a big crower. Would like to find him a good home. We've got two and a small pen, so one has to go.

Beautiful, 16 weeks old, fairly tame, laid back. Not a big crower. Would like to find him a good home. We've got two and a small pen, so one has to go.

Thanks for the tips folks, they were helpful and the little guys are off to a good start all things considered. They were probably born on the half-acre pond I have. But yesterday (the 5th), un-escorted individual ducklings began showing up on various properties surrounding mine. We figure...

Quote: So how does one give them water deep enough to dunk their heads without having them getting totally soaked. I just inherited a couple of orphans that couldn't be more than a couple of days old. I had a tuna can of water in with them but one of them promptly got soaked to the bone and...

Quote: Gee... and I thought you were actually going to build each one and put them through it paces... But seriously, thanks much for the runner's up award... I am humbled. Maybe next year when I build my roof mounted, heat-seeking, anti-hawk & raccoon missile battery I'll stand a chance of...

Quote: Interesting... I was just thinking of this possibility the other day as way to get them some extra protein. I'm not quite sure though of what the neighbors are going to think if they see me scooping up possums of the road every morning.... probably put an end to the potluck invitations

Quote: Yep, I know exactly how you feel - took me 3 months of puttering to put my tractor together... not because I'm unskilled with the tools, but because there was always another interesting problem that needed "incubation" in search of the optimum solution. And that was after a year of...

Quote: That's my philosophy too - a little blood and sweat is good... but some people apparently just can't help but go overboard.... the showoffs.... If OSHA ever gets ahold of this thread, we're all in big trouble! Maybe it's time BYC offered us a medical insurance plan?