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    We live in suburban Perth. Our 6 hens provide us with a lot of pleasure, they keep me company when I am gardening, they eat weeds and help dig over the garden beds. One we call Boss Chook is the oldest and tamest my daughter loves to cuddle her and she is very calm and even seems to enjoy the...
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    Should I shoo my broody off an empty nest?

    It should be stubborn as a broody hen rather than as a mule! I've not gotten a wire cage yet but tried taking the eggs and putting ice under her, now she is still sitting and chirping and growling away - guarding the ice pack instead! I wish I had eggs for her to hatch but we've no roo.
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    How long will eggs be okay to eat when left outside?

    Chimes in from down under. I often find a clutch hidden and all I do is crack the egg seperately before use, so far only found one bad. It's been a heat wave here (100+ for a couple of weeks) and some eggs sit out for 3 or 4 days. I put those eggs straight in the fridge but fresh laid can go in...
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    How do they know?

    We have a lot of birds visit our yard that are the same size and roughly same shape as a hawk, eg cockatoos, ravens and corellas. But when a hawk shows up and perches nearby my girls go nuts until I go scare it off. It must be instinct becuase a bird of prey is a threat to chicks but how do...
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    Where do free range chickens lay eggs?

    ahh those cheeky little chookies. some will some won't and just when you think it was safe to let them out they go and start getting all secretive again. Well at least that is how mine are. If I think production is down I wait til I hear the egg song then go see where the bird is and usually...
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    Squealing hen and other strange noises

    This is funny. I had a hen that crowed for a while but she settled down after she became the dominant hen. Now one of my younger girls has decided to have a go at crowing but manages only a squeak. She also squeals with excitment when I go out to feed them. Scared me the first time I heard it...
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    Rooster painting original art work

    This is an original digital painting. It is in CMYK adobe Illustrator format ready to take to any print shop and have your own print made, the file can be scaled as large as you like with absolutely no loss of quality (I've made similar files for printing as large as 6 feet high). You can...
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    My first euthanising RIP Boss Chook

    Thank you helen, sorry if this is going off topic, I'll post in the hobbies section... I've not done many of chickens but this rooster is a rather splendid fellow. I actually "paint" digitally in Adobe Illustrator as well as in real inks.
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    crowing hen-how to stop it?

    One of my hens started to crow as she became the dominant hen. The original dominant hen got sick and there was some jostling for position. Since she established her self at top of pecking order the crowing stopped.
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    My first euthanising RIP Boss Chook

    Thank you for your kind words. I kept hoping she would pull through. We certainlt won't be eating her. I don't think I could eat an animal I knew by name - unless a last resort. I know, its hypocritical since we eat store bought chicken (free range only). So she is waiting in the freezer for...
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    My first euthanising RIP Boss Chook

    Still crying... This was the chicken that just would not die. After discovering a nasty wound on her abdomen 4 days ago, following a few weeks of being unwell and not eating ( I had treated for cocciodosis), then the wound had got maggots in it. She spent her last few days in a box after I...
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    Gross out alert Could it be roundworm or fly blown?

    I have got rid of the maggots (thank goodnes we don't have screw worm flies in Australia, I was worried that they were eating her flesh). I'm pretty sure now it's all cleaned up that it is a hole in her abdominal wall which is oozing feaces. She smells really bad and the poo smells worse than...
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    Gross out alert Could it be roundworm or fly blown?

    Well I did find some information on this board and I will follow the instructions given for cleaning out a wound infested with maggots. I am still mystified by the round lump and I am praying it is not intestine poking through a wound in the skin. She is hanging in there and very quiet but she...
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    Gross out alert Could it be roundworm or fly blown?

    I will try to get a photo but I don't have good light right now. My ISA hen has been unwell a while, I couldn't work out why she was losing weight and had fowl smelling stuff leaking from her vent. So I have treated with sulfa D in cas eit is cloacca. The vent looked clear and I was cleaning...
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    wasting away, lethargic, cold feet, dirty bottom

    My hen has been not quite right for a while, she was often off by herself standing facing the fence but she was laying, eating and drinking and roosting with the rest of the flock. Now she is getting lethargic, floppy comb and a very dirty bottom where her droppings just dribble out, they are...
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