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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Maybe they are historically. There are 3 different stories. 1 🇪🇸 invented by Santa Teresa de Jesús, Salamanca 2 🇫🇷 patates frites / friture, on the Pont Neuf 3 🇧🇪 unlikely and strange story about replacing fish with potatoes Such a ‘Dutch treat’ is something very unusual in the Netherlands...
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Thanks for explaining. I am very well aware of the risk of buying pullets and I keep a sort of closed flock myself since my first chicken-year. Without a rooster. Unfortunately I cant keep a crowing cockerel when days are lengthening. Only twice I could keep a cockerel long enough for offspring...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    So weird people all over the world seem to use the word Dutch for all kind of things that aren’t Dutch at all. Tax, a neighbours bantam Sussex with the chicks she hatched from bought eggs.
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I hope you and your hens get over loosing Leonard soon. :hugs I thought that if a hen lays eggs, she is fertile. If none of the eggs develop with a committed broody or a good incubator it’s the roosters ‘incapability’ when the eggs wont start to develop. Maybe you are right and there is more...
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    I replied in one your own threads, bc I (and others) need more info to give good advice.
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    I'm at the end of my rope.

    @EmmaDonovan Please tell us what breeds you have. What are the sizes of the coops and runs? If you can give more information and post some photos , you might get real good tips to take the right action and solve your problem.
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    Never had a broody hen

    If you need more space, you better start building an extension to the current coop or connect the meat bird house to the coop or run within a few weeks after the hatch. If the meat bird house is a good accommodation for the chicken family. You can move mother and chicks (and the eggs that...
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    Question of the Day - Sunday, July 20th, 2025

    Yes at the Dofinarium in the Netherlands. https://www.dolfinarium.nl/ The Dolfinarium is the largest marine mammal park in Europe.
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    Open Contest BYC Pets & Livestock Caption Contest 07-25-25 Pic by TicaCielo

    “ I don’t have an imaginary friend. I do have a real enemy though !”
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    Sorry to hear you gave up. You make me wonder if and what changes you made that didn’t work out for the better. Did you try everything I suggested? Sure there must be something that helps. If not J suppose you have some serious traumatised chickens. :hugs
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    Did you read the post I wrote for @EmmaDonovan ? ⬇️⬇️ Maybe there’s something you can do to change the flock dynamics and enjoy having chickens again.
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    i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

    This is where rabbit fences are convenient.
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    MJ's little flock

    Yes, she is a highly respected elderly. They don't chase or peck her at all. Only her two Amrock kids try to steal the goodies from her.
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    The hens are fine without a rooster for a while. I would wait for a better opportunity. Second possibility id to hatch some of the girls eggs. The ones you have /get are fertilised by Leonard. The eggs are fertile up to 3 weeks after Leonard stopped mating. : Try to encourage broodiness or...
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    i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

    I cant take the treats away bc i scatter the treats in the run where they get locked in later. If a few hens are inside for the goodies, I lock the door in the front and stand on guard near the back door to see if the others are coming. The chickens don’t come out as long as they eat the mixed...
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