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    Red mites - any more suggestions

    I made a frame using the framework of two outdoor 'hot houses' that I no longer use. So the frame is made of collapsible short poles you join together, I ensured that each joint had petroleum jelly (vaseline) on each end before joining. (Makes them easy to get apart but also stops mites getting...
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    Red mites - any more suggestions

    I should add, that each day I scattered ash on the trays beneath the birds, the hens pick the ash up on their feet and transfer to the perches. If you have no ash, you could use garden lime mixed in soil in its place.
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    Red mites - any more suggestions

    I had a nasty infestation in the shed here in Tasmania. I recalled a method my grandmother used in New Zealand. I scrubbed perches, nests etc and then painted the legs of the perch frame with vegetable oil. I then scattered cold ash from the fire all over the floor and into the hens feathers, as...
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    Red mites - any more suggestions

    I live in Tasmania Australia. I have managed to rid my hen house of what was a really bad infestation of red mites using a process known to my grandmother some seventy years ago. I have my birds sitting with large buckets behind and below them and with trays in front to collect motions. I have...
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    Paranoid and anxiety filled after hawk attack (I'm talking about ME!!)

    I so feel for you having watched my goose being killed by wedgetail Eagles. I wonder if having a radio on in you run would be helpful to keep Hawks away . Good luck Beth Tasmania
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    Sex- linked Information

    Thank you so much for your wonderful article. Please could you lookat my recent post and photos of Barvelder Rooster crossed with Lite Sussex hen. In the future I presume I should select eggs from the lite sussex hens. However what might Apricot and Chic produce. crossed with Barnvelder dad...
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    Can we get a list together of chicken breeds that can be crossed to produce sex linked or auto sexin

    Silly me, the picture under my name 23 Sandreef are the chicks to which I referred. So some photos of the Barnvelder Big Red and his White Sussex hens. Offspring we have Apricot, who was apricot in colour, a tall hen compared to mother Lite Sussex bantam. Then we have chick who had Lite Sussex...
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    Can we get a list together of chicken breeds that can be crossed to produce sex linked or auto sexin

    I have a Barnvelder rooster who crossed with lite sussex hens produced gold colours chicks who were female and yellow chicks who became White roosters. The crossed hens have been fabulous layers. I understand this cross won't work in reverse ie the rooster being a lite sussex as the sex link is...
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    hen acting like rooster?

    [He is very protective of his girls and stands up to the goose. He would kill his father Big Red who we rescued from the rubbish dump cheers
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    hen acting like rooster?

    Ten months he is a real character, gentle but also feisty, always getting into trouble. Was using our hook pen predator cover nets as a trampoline cheers
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    Light Sussex x Barnevelder

    Go for it. I have crossed my lite sussex bantams with a barnvelder rooster. Have produced lovely off spring . Brown chicks are hens and the white or multi coloured white chicks are roosters. That is a bonus. Don't think the self sexing happens if the sussex is the rooster
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    hen acting like rooster?

    Sorry but now I have some pictures. Chookyroo is a cross. Dad is Barnvelder and mum a Lite Sussex bantam. He is a real character and now has his own hens who are Australorpes.Eggs from the hens in his harem appear to be sterile. Fine by me!!!!! He is an active rooster and great at watching out...
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    2015 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

    Day old chick saying hello to the world I am talking to you, are you listening? Greetings from Tasmania
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    hen acting like rooster?

    I have got a roo hen too! Is now about seven months old. Seems to have inherited Male plumage definitely lays eggs.idea of mounting a hen is a little different. Fluffs up neck ruff. Sticks neck straight out, then head down runs at speed at the hen. In the last week has looked like a rooster...
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    Quoll attack

    Updating on my predators in the chook house and a warning for others! Having lost my two lovely chicks at around 12 weeks to some sort of predator, I upped my investigating. Noticed a few rat dirts and that rats had been chewing my large pastic food bin. They made such a good job of chewing they...
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