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    Sexing Braekel and Paduan chicken...

    So, finally here they are:
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    Sexing Braekel and Paduan chicken...

    More than year has passed and I found my old thread again. The two chicks are grown up and turned to beautiful hens, both are good layers and surprisingly good flyers, even the Paduan hen. I just bought some new chicks and again one Paduan and one Braekel. This time I could choose myself and...
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    Will she ever lay again?

    I have 4.5 years old ex-battery hen that hasn't laid eggs since last autumn after a very thorough molting (she lost almost all feathers). Now it is spring here, new grass is growing and hens have had earthworms, snails etc they have found in the garden, in addition to poultry feed (currently...
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    LOOK at this egg I just got!!

    My brahma mix hen lays rather often such large and irregular shape eggs. They have never been double-yolked, just huge and very elongate. This spring she lays ordinary eggs, but in autumn nearly all eggs were like this.
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    Sexing Braekel and Paduan chicken...

    I have 2 cute chicks, one is Braekel and second is Paduan (a day younger). Do you have any suggestions how and when I can determine their sex? I already have a rooster, but he seems to be infertile (SLW of unknown age, maybe 3+ years), as none of the eggs my hens have tried to hatch have shown...
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    Molting

    I have also a question about molting. Does adult hens go through full molt every year? I have had chickens for 1,5 years and birds are of different age, oldest must be around 3,5 years. But this hen have had only 2 mini-molts during this 1,5 years. These molts have been like continuous exchange...
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    Topic of the Week - Winter Egg Laying

    I have one light-bulb in the coop that I switch off in the evening (no specific time), otherwise we have about 5 hours of daylight at the moment. Hens are laying, except the broody one. I have 6 hens and I get usually 2-3 eggs per day, if temperature is above -5 degrees Celsius. The coop door is...
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    young hen broody again!

    In October my about 6-7 months old bantam decided to sit on eggs. Unfortunately eggs were either infertile or stopped developing quite early. Nevertheless she sat on eggs for about 25-26 days. I got a rooster just this summer and I haven't experience with broody hens or hatching yet, so I didn't...
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    Topic of the Week - Lice and Mites - Prevention and Treatments

    I had only theoretical knowledge that chicken do have various parasites, but I had never seen any until this summer. I bought a beautiful and good natured rooster. A few weeks later I picked him up and noticed some white clumps on his vent area feathers. I looked closer and saw the poultry lice...
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    Broody Banty

    I'm quite new to broody topics, but I also have a broody bantam. I left 6 eggs under her and marked these with small piece of band-aid, two eggs are small (one is hers) and 4 full-size. I can't imagine that she could properly hatch more than this number of eggs. She's only about 900 grams. I...
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    broody bantam hatching 6 eggs, one with crack

    So, my young bantam pullet got broody and decided to hatch some eggs, despite the fact that it is autumn and today even snow came down. I live in Northern Europe and in the next 2 months the temperatures will be probably around 0 degrees Celsius. She has hatched the eggs about 10 days now and I...
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    When will she lay?

    Today my bantam pullet laid her first egg:) I was so exited, although I have 3 older hens who are laying daily for more than year. That's her, she is about 900 grams and is very good flyer. And the egg (on the left), it is 30 grams; on the right is the average egg I get, about 70 grams:
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