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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Boss Chook" is about 3 years old but could be more as she was "bonus" when I bought my pullets. She is one of 6 hens, the others all seem fine. Free ranging in the backyard She was the top bird but recently lost her place to a younger one. Her comb has folded over but is still red and not...

I was given 2 brown crossbreed hens, age unknown but definitely mature. They are probably 2 or 3 years old but how do you tell the age of a chook?

If I hadn't been watching to see who laid what I would have thought a goose snuck in and laid this one. But no it came from our scrawniest hen she is about 30 weeks and lays every day but not usually this big. The smallest egg in the picture is about 45g, I couldn't weigh the whopper but I'm...

We were held up getting home one night and after a long journey home I was rather desperate and headed off to the outdoor toilet as soon as we pulled up. Well I nearly wet myself on the spot because peering out at me was a very bedraggled chook! She'd obviously gotten confused by not being...

Hello, One of my older hens (not sure of exact age but was told 2 by the person I bought from) lays eggs with one or two holes in the shell at the narrower end, sometimes the holes are surrounded by specks of calcium and sometimes the hole is covered by lumpy shell but always in the same place...