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    snake just ate my chicken

    Here's a picture of the python that made me buy a new chook house. It couldn't get out of the little gap it had squeezed in once it had a large plymouth rock pullet in its belly! This python and another couple of big ones have lived in my roof for years and they usually take possums (which I...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Not my ducks but still ducks.. Years ago Mum can over to Australia (from New Zealand) with a friend to visit and we took them to the local wildlife park. We were in the 'Rare and Endangered Birds' section and we came aross a pen of rare ducks. It was a hot day and the ducks were all resting...
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    What kind of dog should I get for my backyard?

    My miniture dachshund is also a hunting breed and we trained her from a puppy just as alienkitties did. Ripley is two and a half and I trust her 100% around chickens of any age without my presence. She's not allowed to kill anything (we have lots of big lizards, possums and wild birds) except...
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    Help me on some treats!!!

    There's another thread that looks fairly recent all about flax seeds, Deb.
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    marmite on toast!!!

    Blow the the chooks, I like to feed myself Marmite on toast for breakfast although now that I live in Australia (originally from New Zealand) I have vegemite on toast. If you come from those countries you are brought up on the stuff and its nothing to see a baby with Marmite or vegemite all...
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    Vanishing Eggs and Drama with Ms Whitey (Welsummer)

    Well I guess I've been avoiding this because it was such a disaster! I checked the cracked egg after two hours and Ms Whitey had her foot on it crushing it so I moved it under her, the chick was still alive. Another two hours later and the chick was dead, all squashed looking and all the shell...
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    Neighbor's cat getting into chickens! Help!!

    Gosh that's a tough one. I've had dogs come on to my property and kill chickens a couple of times in the past. Since I don't like cats I have to admit I shamefully still like your first idea but that's very bad of me. I hope you can sort it out with your neighbour without falling out. Where...
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    Vanishing Eggs and Drama with Ms Whitey (Welsummer)

    OMG!! I just checked Ms Whitey she's okay with seven eggs but I can't help noticing this is the first day in a while that she hasn't got off her nest for a quick dust bath. Then I checked the cracked egg that I put under the SL Wyandottes sisters and I think its hatching! The membrane is torn...
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    Hello from Brisbane, Qld!

    Yes, that all sounds like a starting to lay pullet to me although 46g is a relatively big egg. She might have been laying a while and this is all part of settling in to a new home. It won't take long before she's laying daily maybe a week or so. Chickens like to lay where they see another egg...
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    Day 21!!!

    Its always so exciting day 21! and sooo hard to resist the urge to intervene! Best of luck, I hope they hatch and remember sometimes they take longer than 21 days. Deb
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    Hello from Brisbane, Qld!

    Yes, Penny sure looks like an Isa brown and from what I can see she looks like a nice young one. The older they are the bigger their combs get. Isa browns are a cross bred that is most often used in the commercial egg laying industry (in Australia) because they are prolific layers. Mine have...
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    Vanishing Eggs and Drama with Ms Whitey (Welsummer)

    Refuse to fight a battle of wits with an unarmed person.. lol... thats great! I'm sooo going to use that! A dead chick I can understand but I can't help having that niggly thought that they're alive and Ms Whitey might be some kind of ... CANNIBAL!!
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    Vanishing Eggs and Drama with Ms Whitey (Welsummer)

    I hope the eggs had a problem because the alternative is horrible! Ooooh!! My faith and sympathy for Ms Whitey is slowly evaporating! I just checked and she was doing 'something' that looked like more than egg rolling. When I looked 1 of her eggs has a small crack in it exposing the...
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    Hello from Brisbane, Qld!

    Hi Alecia, I'm at Dakabin just out of Brisbane (next to Alma Park Zoo). I find the best place to look for chooks is farmstock.com.au That's where alot of the breeders advertise their birds (sorry I'm too useless to insert a hyperlink). There is at least 20 or so advertisements placed daily...
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    Vanishing Eggs and Drama with Ms Whitey (Welsummer)

    Hello, I like to share my current chicken drama with you, my Welsummer 'Ms Whitey' had been broody for about 10 days before I gave her the Marans eggs that I wanted to hatch. I put the posted eggs under her immediately on the 13th Dec. midday and counted the next day as day 1. Today is day 18...
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