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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Brought in 3 young hens today to my flock to hopefully brood some chicks for me. I feel I have enough birds to close my flock for bio-security reasons now but I won't rule out bringing more if need be. I may bring in a different cockeral if the current one doesn't work out but I'd rather breed...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Bought another couple of pullets this morning to hopefully beed some cockerals. Pure Malay pullets.
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    That is great advice and is very welcomed thank you. I had a good broody lined up that was hard to break last year but she's had a respiratory infection that doesn't want to clear up so she might not be around much longer. She was the boss chook before I got my rooster and she got sick.
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    That's definitely food for thought. Thank you for steering back to that line of thought. I heard recently of a fairly successful breeder who breeds the conventional way in pens and he was talking about culling sick birds. He said since he's started culling instead of treating that he doesn't...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Oh that would have been a sad loss. I love the idea of a good matriarch hen that raises chicks well.
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Do you have a preference to which way you raise chicks?
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    I've had my pullets a week now and I'm letting them out with the others now. I know a lot of people quarantine for a month but I just don't have the set up for that yet. I was originally going to wait till I had a broody to buy some fertilised eggs to get more pullets but I ran out of patience...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    I should of mentioned in the original post but there are a few more things I'm doing to breed more resilient chooks. I can't fully free range so if I can't take them fully to nature I bring nature to them. I let them out mid morning after I think they've laid so I don't have to go looking...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Thank you, he's looking the part at the moment but not sure if he'll make the grade temperament wise. I need something a bit more protective. Are you able to get any Fayoumi chickens where you are? I've heard from more then one source that they're one of the healthiest birds available. Very...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    I'm in Australia so really don't know much about Coyotes but I imagine they're as cunning as the Red Fox we have here? Do you have any livestock guardian dogs on your ranch?
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Thank you, I haven't had much to do with gamefowl but am liking them even more. He's still only young but I don't know if he'll make the grade yet. He's not protective enough so I may have to switch him out to an American game or even an Asian game like an Asil/Aseel type. Your predator load is...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Definitely won't be without some losses but that's nature. I've lost a few before I free ranged mine so I don't see much difference....not that I want to be feeding the local wildlife though.
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    Wow thats awesome. Glad you could prove the naysayers wrong! I've talked to others that have feral chickens now too 🤣 Predator load here is pretty low. I haven't seen any hawks or aerial predators and haven't seen any evidence of foxes here either although they're in the general area. We do...
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    Starting my resilience flock.

    G'day everyone, been a while since I've been on here but not much has changed in my chicken world until now. We've finally moved to our new house on a 5 acre block, 2 of which is a paddock to run livestock. Moving has allowed me to finally keep a rooster legally and I've managed to buy a black...
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    Breeding larger survival chickens?

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