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That was a sweet gift! My calendar arrived in the mail yesterday. It's a pretty sequence of photos, and of course I'm so proud of Mr. March 🤩 Sorry to hear Gaston's being a jerk. Stilton went through a phase a couple years ago where he'd peck everyone's feet at roost time, hard. They'd be all...

Every time you write about running on this landscape, I get jealous of your blood oxygen!

Their dustbathing in the barrel planters is too cute. Wow, it's available! Thanks for expanding on hypochlorous acid. When I first bought it for rooster legs, I remember being worried the redness was some sort of infection. Veterycin was supposed to be an easy-to-apply option to offer relief...

Théo's baby pictures 😍 Saw the photo of his legs on Shad's thread, and they do look angry. A couple of our feather-legged boys have had redness similar to that, but maybe not as severe. I've used that Veterycin spray for what I considered to be overly irritated legs, thanks to advice dug up on...

🤔 Maybe "gnarly" is a strong word. Or not, where the feather-legs are concerned. It's wild how the feather shafts stick out of their scales, and that effect is magnified on the roosters. Andre's legs are as big as a small dog's. However, @Perris - your chickens are supermodels, so it's not...

😳 on the raptor visit. Our temps have been similar (but colder and for a week, ugh), and we've also seen a higher incidence of raptors and people in our underwear yelling at the sky. Hope Piou-piou's healing nicely. I'm always irrationally bummed when a chicken loses a chunk of comb...

Wow, not sure how I missed discussions of fence fighting until now. Luckily, BYC has a good search, and ["fence fighting" by member: Shadrach] offers a good primer. Very cool. These 2 would fight if in the same yard. However, while we've always had supplies ready to add a visual barrier to...

Your weather looks like ours today. It barely reached 43F/6C all day. In less gloomy news, Gastounet gets better looking by the day. He's so handsome. By this logic, is your presence supposed to be the cause of the conflicts? 🤔 I'd peck my partner, too, if he told me this 😄 Joking aside, I...

I was wondering how many coops the tribes had (but have been too lazy to pore over the tribes thread to figure it out). We have 4 coops, including 1 that's supposed to be free in case of emergency. It's true that somebody always moves in. Often, a few hens choose to roost or lay there for a...

Your photos are always really good, but these are excellent! It's fun the chickens have joined the campaign to convince your partner to upgrade their accommodations.

I've had this heartbreak, and I've had the thought I wasn't I cut out for chicken keeping. But I think I am, and I know you are. I just have to do it on my own terms. My approach has sometimes made life more complicated than it seems to be for other chicken tenders. But it's turned a lot...

Poor Chipie. These situations are so difficult. One solution would be to build Gastounet separate sleeping quarters to keep Chipie safe from injury, and do a rotation by day, letting Théo and Chipie hang with everyone for part of the day while Gastounet has a time out, then vice versa. We've...

Thanks for the callout @ManueB . It's great you've started a thread. Your posts are fun to read, and your photos are beautiful. Your partner's chicken playset is a hoot! It will be fun to see how they interact with it. Note that you could have the opposite problem: last spring, I had a...