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    Getting our hens to use their NEW nesting boxes

    Hi there We have had to make new boxes in a separate area for our hens. The reason being, that they are kept locked into their coop at night time. They have boxes attached to the coop but they have been laying on the coop floor which is fine if you want the eggs with poop on them! So I decided...
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    Any ideas on what she might be?

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    Any ideas on what she might be?

    I know - sorry! She wouldn't stay still long enough. She has grey/silver coloured legs and she doesn't have feathers on them. I think it's the leaves she is standing on that make it look that way. I had looked at pictures of a Phoenix and she sort of looks like that ..... It's annoying because I...
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    Any ideas on what she might be?

    Hi I posted a few months ago to get some idea on what our wee hen was.... Now that she is getting older, I thought it might be easier to work out what she is?? Thanks heaps :) Thought I'd try and get one of her face and one of her body and tail
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    Winter questions ..

    Hi there, We live in New Zealand and it's coming up to winter. We had our first eggs last week which was exciting! Not sure who out of the 5 is laying but we've been waiting since January - so as you can imagine, it's very exciting. Anyway, today we had our first lot of sleet/hail and cold wind...
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    what is this hen??

    Hi there We just got this a couple of weeks ago and still can't get ideas of what she may be? Are you able to help us at all? Thanks :)
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    Gender help ..

    quote "That yellow legged bird in the very first pic...that is a VERY red face for a bird that age. Unless she's just going to be an early layer. Can't see the comb but that's a red face for such a young bird if it was a pullet. I've only had a few Buff Orp's but their legs were almost white...
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    new hen won't go to the coop at night

    Hi there we ended up having to swap two of our chickens because they decided to use their voices the other day!!! SUPER LOUD! We got two new ones and they seem to have settled well into the flock. The only problem we have is that one of them won't go to the coop at night by herself. the other 4...
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    Gender help ..

    We are fairly new to this. We have had to replace two out of five of our chickens because they decided to crow last week! My question is... what gender do you think these all are: thanks :) Orphington 14 weeks, silkie x 15 weeks Rhode Island Red 13 weeks Rhode island Red 13 weeks :
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    First time chickens ...

    Here are the other chickens we have .. First, Rhode Island Red - about 13 weeks second, our other Rhode Island Red - 13 weeks lastly our Orphington - not sure how old though ...
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    First time chickens ...

    the photo is of our two new chickens - any thought on what the front one may be? so it turns out we were right and they found their voices this morning nice and loud! Had to take them back to where we got them and swapped them for two new ones :) Another silkie x and another hen... not sure what...
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    First time chickens ...

    Hi there We have 5 hens/roosters. Well fingers crossed we have 5 hens! So I am going to put it out there for all you other chicken lovers (and believe me i was not one of them until we got some .. now I spend waaaay too much time with them) if you can please help me determine if these silkie...
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