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So my chickens are passing away sadly, and although they were great I'm interested in getting into meat birds so I don't have to get too attatched. I figured coturnix quail would be a good starting point, good meat, relatively easy maintenence, and good eggs! I'll probably just recycle my...

My chickens, of course being oppurtunistic, tried to rip apart a small chick (fledgling?) who left it's nest. Luckily I was out there, and heard the shrill screams, and rescued the poor thing. It lost a clump of feathers from it's head, but it is fine otherwise. I left it out in the yard for a...

I know I made a fishing thread once, but I can't find it! Anyways, I know there's some fisherman here on BYC. I mostly bass fish here in Central FL, but nothing beats heading down to the Florida coast for some surf and brackish river fishing. (Mosquito lagoon specifically) Biggest largemouth to...

Alright, it's gotten a little out of hand now. My yard is a buffet, period. There's a dozen squirrels in my small yard 24/7, and now they have developed the habit of going into the unscreened patio, eating my mom's sprouts and plants, chewing through the treat bins, and crapping everywhere...

Here ya go ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UgNqviEgHI Had this in the feeding section but thought I'd post it here for more views. Also, because I get so many comments like these, these are NOT the typical pests roaches. They are exotic feeders from SA and can not climb, fly, or breed...

Feeder insects! (If my roach idea caught your interest, see the vid to see how much my girls love me for it) What more can a chicken (and a duck) want for their late afternoon snack? No wonder my eggs taste so good. It's also funny how loud they complain after they find out I have no more...

So my pekin has been diagnosed with arthritis in her legs. She's not heavy at all, but is poor genetic quality (from a lake, just some leftover ducks) and only weighs 5 pounds. I would like to take her for walks again around the park, but I would like to know how I could ease her occasional...

I'm leaving on Friday for Christmas vacation, and thought that I better nip this in the butt before issues arrise while the 'chicken newb' pet-sitter takes care of the animals. To make a long story short, Meko, the lowest of the pecking order, had a little fight with Big-Red, second or third to...

My little EE hen hasn't laid in a month, and just recently she started molting pretty good. She's eating 70% less of her feed, just a few pecks here an there. She's been getting extra help finding her insects, and she gets a helpful handful of mealworms a day. Along with an hour or more outside...

It's my EE hen, meko, who is usually a great layer. Her behavior is normal, droppings normal, eating normal. Shes does have a touch of fowl pox, and several white raised spots on her feet, that are not bumblefoot and I think they are pox. Mosquitos have been bad this month, despite the cooler...

Everything was fine when I left for school, and then I come back and find one of my hens with a bad limp! She was just great when I left, but now she refuses to walk around much but still eats and drinks fine. It's her right foot. It has a small fresh wound which looks like it was scraped...

But my parents won't allow any more chickens, and in a way I agree because I don't want to risk losing my birds. (I'm not allowed in the first place) I LOVE my girls the way they are, but I wish my feed store had more variety when I was buying chicks. At the time it was just RIRs, EE, Leghorns...

I think one of my favorite hens has bumblefoot. (Along with some dry fowl pox) It's not under her foot, but is on the side of her middle toe on her left foot. It looks a little red, with some swelling that caused one of the scales to lift. If I look closer to the side of the toe, where the...

One of my little hens has been developing white, slightly raised spots on her comb, which eventually turn black, like a scab. So far there's only 2 scabs but I think I see more developing. I have noticed a decrease in laying, this particular hen NEVER skips more than a day every two weeks from...

No, it's not like it snatched one of my chickens. Lately I've been dealing with a rat/possum, whatever it is I let my dog out every night to give him a chance to kill it or at least give me a chance to see it. So far he runs out barking and growling everynight, chasing at something I can't see...

Stumbled across a tiny styrofoam cooler stashed away in the garage. Thought too myself "This is the perfect size for what I'm looking to hatch"! So now I'm sitting here, researching as much as I can about homemade incubators. I so far have the eyebulb socket, a panel of glass for viewing, and a...

C'mon, there's gotta be some fishing freaks stowed away on BYC somewhere! Whether it be bass, catfish, perch, bluegill, crappie, trout, or inshore/offshore fishing this is the place to talk about it! Living in Florida, there's a bass over 5 pounds in every retention pound. So that's my fish of...

The eggs my EE hen meko lay always have a slightly wrinkled pointy end, every time. Nothing serious looking, but I was just wondering. The eggs have always had this but it got more noticeable with every egg laid.

Threw out a backed chicken from publix that was bought last night. Someone forgot to put it back and ants swarmed it, so I didn't want it to go to waste when it's a perfect protein supplement for the girls. But boy, they went after that carcass like it was still alive. Litterally swiping the...

For the past month my trusty brittany spaniel/beagle mix has been acting strange at night. Usually very agitated, and he would constantly go to the bathroom in this one particular spot every night. I had always thought it was a rat. But the snap traps I set were always sprung, but the bait was...