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It’s my first breeding season here in Australia and I’ve been hatching eggs from other breeders, shipped and local. I recently borrowed a Sicilian Buttercup cockerel to put with my three pullets and the breeding pen has been going for a few weeks. The first batch of 12 fertile eggs, well I...

Hi friends, I have ten chickens living in a large covered run in four prefab coops (with ventilation panels added) so there are 2 or 3 birds in each house and they roost with their closest friends / age group with whom they entered the flock. I’m raising three Sicilian Buttercup pullets who...

Hi, my one year old Wyandotte laying hen is sick with a respiratory infection. I’m trying to work out how to treat her as another flock member was put to sleep a couple weeks ago, assuming the same pathogen, and that hen didn’t really respond to the two classes of antibiotics we can get OTC here...

Hi, my Aracuana pullet Lady Featherflower is sick and I can’t work out what medicines to give her because her symptoms are confusing. :/ Background: She’s in a covered run with 10 others, divided into 4 prefab coops with added ventilation panels. Poop trays are inspected and cleaned every day...

Hi, we have a young cream legbar hen who’s been laying for a couple of weeks. She came from a local farmyard where there are a few different heritage breeds but separated into different areas so the roos don’t mate across breeds. Our legbar is laying beige eggs :/ We love her and don’t really...

Hi friends, My Pencilled Hamburg hen Angelica is around 7 months old. She’s been laying for a few weeks but stopped a week ago. We had a mite infestation arise while away on a camping trip so I assumed it was the cause, as the rest of the flock stopped laying too. They’ve all been treated...

I was administering medication to my chicken for a flare up of a chronic infectious coryza condition. She shook her head vigorously and a few drops of her runny snot went straight into my eye 🤢 It’s a day later and i have conjunctivis coming on, crusting and soreness and redness. For those who...

Hi, I’m a new backyard chicken owner in Australia. We started with a couple of young layers in August last year and grew the flock with 10 new chicks and pullets in November-December. I have a silver pencilled Hamburg pullet, Angelica, around 20 weeks old, who had Coryza in December soon after...