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    Banned Pesticides and Backyard Chickens - Please Advise.

    We live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where we have recently started our backyard chicken flock with 4 hens. Our garden is maintained by our landlord who periodically sprays our garden with pesticides. Yesterday, I noticed he was spraying our grass with Durspan (made by Dow Chemical)...
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    Pesticides and Backyard Chickens - Need Advice, Please

    We live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where we have recently started our backyard chicken flock with 4 hens. Our garden is maintained by our landlord who periodically sprays our garden with pesticides. Yesterday, I noticed he was spraying our grass with Durspan (made by Dow Chemical)...
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    United Arab Emirates - Gulf States and Saudi Arabia

    Greetings from Abu Dhabi, UAE. I have just started my backyard flock with 4 hens described as "local Arabic chickens." I have no additional information about them. I would love to hear from other people in the Gulf Coast Countries or UAE if there are others like me on this forum. I welcome...
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    Anyone know what exactly an "Arabic chicken" is? Here's a photo.

    Thank you for your replies. It was curiosity more than anything else that led me to ask about the lineage of my hens. The bird market sells these "Arabic chickens" for a fraction of the price of the "other" more expensive kind - which they call "Fancy chickens." The Fancy chickens include what...
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    Anyone know what exactly an "Arabic chicken" is? Here's a photo.

    Hi Maebh. Thanks for your reply. I have 4 hens. They were purchased at a local livestock/bird market - which like most things here is largely disorganized, unregulated and operated by people who don't speak English. So, I have no information about their lineage. They were described as "local...
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    Anyone know what exactly an "Arabic chicken" is? Here's a photo.

    I have just started to raise chickens in the United Arab Emirates. We live in a coastal desert where summer temperatures reach 120 degrees and 70 percent humidity. In the past we have raised Rhode Island Reds and related crosses in the US and the UK. However, this time we opted to start with...
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    Greetings from Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Hello! I'm very pleased to be a new member of this forum. Having raised chickens in the US and the UK, I have decided to try raising chickens at our new home in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The climate here is very harsh. Abu Dhabi is a coastal desert where summer temperatures reach 120 degrees or more...
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