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Hi can anyone please help one of my chickens is not herself at all today i have 10 chooks and the 4 older shaver girls are all going through there first molt but one the biggest is having a real hard time bles her today i have noticed she is not walking around much at all and is real off balance...

Hi can anyone please help one of my chickens is not herself at all today i have 10 chooks and the 4 older shaver girls are all going through there first molt but one the biggest is having a real hard time bles her today i have noticed she is not walking around much at all and is real off balance...

I have her here now and i found out that they had been weed spraying in the yard which the birds often fre range around seems to me this is the cause ,she looks very healthy eating and drinking heaps i have given her water with apple cider vinegar added i swear by it ,and she is being very very...

Hi my friend had 4 chooks they are around 2 yrs old now were real healthy they had an episode last yr where her basset hound arthur got into the coup and caused major damage she returned to 4 chickens lying lifeless and bloody on the lawn ,fortunitly none died but the weeks and months following...

no she isnt laying yet i thought the same she defo doesnt have hairy legs they are yellow like the frizzles its the topknot thats the funny thing and she is the same colouring as the frizzle just her feathers are flat ! would be good if she does start laying green or blue eggs though the kids...

oh wow realy i got 2 silkies also a blue and a white but they are real fluffy ha ha ha ha she is awesome and she knows she is real pretty to the way she struts her stuff =)

yeah sorry they should be there now =)

Can anyone please let me know what breed this wee girl is i got her with my frizzle hen but she has totally different feathering they were from the same flock ,i have googled to try find a similar chook but have had no luck if anyone has any idea you will be helping me big time =)

thats what they do and prob still will do months down the line you will know when they are being nasty and if they havent to start with i doubt they will the chicks soon learn ,i never bothered with a safe palce the coop is so big they find there own i never brought mine in at all but it is...

sorry i ment to say free ranging with my 4 big hens for the last year ,now the bunnies and the guinipigs live with 10 chooks in complete harmony .

They get on perfectly fine i have 4 rabbits and 2 guinipigs that have been free ranging together in a huge pen for the last year, (they were in a hutch and i thought it would be so much better to have a huge run as soon as i put them into the coop they were so excited jumping around it was so...

thats preety much how mine were they seem to sort themselves out its all part of the pecking order if they was no nasty behaviour im sure all will be good just keep and eye on them ,it does take atleast a week for them to all get along ha ha ha and then the big ones still tell them off if needs be

I have had my now 8 week old chicks in with my 4 big girls for couple of weeks now i did the same had a cage in the big run that they went into in the day time and then one day i just thought right its time ,i let the big girls free range around the lawn and then let the babies out i think when...