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    What to do with my 2 year old Hylines?

    Thanks everyone for your advise, it is much appreciated, my partner and I decided that we need to cull 3 of the old hens, we still have two 1 year old chickens who are laying great! I went for a long walk into the forest park today and could not forget what needed to be done, so I managed to sum...
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    What to do with my 2 year old Hylines?

    Hi, I need some advise on what to do with 3 of my 2 1/2 year old hyline Browns, two of them have stopped laying completely, one has been very slow and docile for a while now then got sour crop and has now recovered from it, but she is still very slow and not interested in much food and stand in...
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    Chickens that eat foreign objects

    Hi, the other day I was watching my five chicken scratching around the back yard and noticed one was struggling to eat what I thought was a big fat worm, but I wasn't, I turned out to be a thick peice of silicon sealer about 4 inches long and as thick as a pencil, The chickens unearth a few...
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    Rapid Moulting Chicken

    Wow, it doesn't get that cold here, where I am in Wellington we get the cold wind from the Cook Straight waters which the coldness comes from the Antartic when it blowing from the south, so we get the chill factor in the wind.
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    Rapid Moulting Chicken

    Hi, thanks for the response, it good to know that there is not much to worrie about, like your chicken that usually moults when it's chilli, my chicken has the the same thing, were are a few weeks into winter here in New Zealand.
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    Rapid Moulting Chicken

    Does this look like normal moulting, the last week and a half there was no sign of moulting but now this is what my top pecking order chicken looks like, she is very slow and docile, at least the two younger chickens I have introduced are getting a break from all the chasing and pecking. Any...
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    Why is my chicken behaving weird?

    I have 3 hyline brown chicken they first started laying at Christmas time, two of the chicken are fine, but one chicken has been acting strange, this chicken has been laying shell less eggs for about 2 weeks, there are these empty sac looking things around the back yard (chicken are free to roam...
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