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Well it is satisfactorily resolved after 48 hrs. For those interested, I took her inside the next morning as she was weak and essentially blind. I handfed her yolk on a spoon and water dropper of H2O with ACV + arnica & aconite homeopathics every few hrs (whenever she started chirping loud). (If...

My cackle batch arrived yesterday (hatched Weds 3/23, arrived 3/25). That afternoon, my 6 yo kid left the brooder coop open and a blue jay snatched a chick (barred rock). I heard the distressed chirping after a while and managed to get her back in the coop under the mother hen brooder. One eye...

Poisoning rats ends up poisoning other animals in the ecosystem that feed on them like eagles, owls and hawks and other predators. Poisoned rats may get trapped in places that are hard to remove them. Nothing worse than decomposing rats in the crawl spaces. Snap traps are more humane. As a...

@alexis187 I use a pond liner as a barrier. If the ground is wet, this will keep the bedding dry in a roofed area. Best, only costs $25 for 10x20 and no trench digging or concrete pouring! For bedding I use all purpose construction sand (coarse sand) with zeolite (neutralize ammonia) and...

Oh sure. Wherever it belongs most, keep it there. Wherever it does not belong, please delete. Thanks!

I will tell you this shelter in place bidness really through a monkey wrench into my chick acquisition. The feed store in San Leandro had sporadic chick days and insane lines. I spent four hours in line to get 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Black Australorps and no Brahmas (they were shorted, and in...

Oh okay. My first post on this ordinance was in the Chicken Laws articles section. I should probably delete one of these, but which one and I couldn't figure out how to delete the article.

I see your La Gallina and present to you, the Muppets.

Did you end up tracking this? I am wondering at what age my Orpingtons, Australorps (and soon) Brahmas will be big enough to use the treadle feeder (which is 1# minimum).

Laurie Berkner Band "I know a chicken"

Was so busy forgot to post pix of the chickies in the outdoor brooder. I notice they were feathering almost immediately. 2 buff orpingtons and 2 black australorps. I waited FOUR hours in line at the feed store. And the hatchery shorted them the brahmas (plus they inplemented limits given the 50+...

@PDXJULES You mean like a chicken sing-a-long? :woot I only know one chicken song - The Laurie Berkmer Band's "I know a chicken". :jumpy supposedly there are alot of old timey folk songs about chickens? My tech savvy does not extend to livestreaming anything.

Click on the More Options icon ellipsis (three dots) next to watch/unwatc.

Wait, did I help with a project? What project?

omg I thought I was just imagining that my chicks would all settle down and take naps when I sing a song with my ukulele!

Hi, newbie here. What is this thread? I read some early ones and thought I'd jump ahead to the good parts but the last few pages have nothing to do with OP, @Kiki, or hatching ba:wootlut? Also all the linked posts in the OP don't go to where they are supposed to. But it looks wildy popular?

We were fortunate to get a hand-me-down coop from a friend who was relocating out of state. After alot of dithering of where to put it in my southern facing yard, I chose the north side yard under the apple and lemon trees as being the shadiest spot for the hot summer. I laid some pavers in the...

My 12 yo daughter and I unknowingly performed chicken math this very afternoon in trying to calculate how many chickens could fit in a 41x44 in brooder pen. 41x44=1804 sq in. If each chick needs 1sf then, 1804 sq in/12 in = 150.33 chickens. Really, it is quite magical. Also, Proof #9 is why we...

I thought i posted this earlier, but cannot find it now. Here it is again. Fairview (east of Hayward) in unincorporated Alameda County has a specific ordinance because it is semi-rural. Combining L District On a minimum lot of 40,000 square feet, the combining L district allows fifty (50) fowl...

I have been intending on it for a while now, and got a hand me down coop in the winter. A couple of deals to acquire chicks from friends fell through over the last few months and also we weren't ready yet. And the chicks sold out in 3 hours at the feed store before Easter. I too hope that this...