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    Help me identity this wee chap please

    Thanks for that. I did wonder if he was a bit of this and that. He's still cute though.
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    Help me identity this wee chap please

    My neighbours have 9 luscious ladies and wanted a rooster as company for them. He followed me home one evening and then spent the fortnight spending the days with us and following me around the place. He was in the garage and I shut the roller door to keep him in. Our neighbour camecover and he...
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    Help me identity this wee chap please

    For over 2 months I have been going up the hill to feed another abandoned rooster. I REALLY wish people wouldn't just dump the poor boys just because of their sex. He is really is cute, but I just can't figure out what he is. I was told he may be a Wyandotte.
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    Strange noises from one of our Roosters

    Ola! Chaps, I have tried Googling and You tubing on chicken noises to no avail. Poppet, our little accident prone boy makes some weird noises, and I was wondering if I needed to worry. He is currently injury free at present, although he was recently severely hen pecked by one of the other...
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    Comment by 'IshyBabe' in article 'Jonny Anvils Chicken Coop'

    Might try this for our next coop when we get our own chickens.
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    Damaged eye

    Ola! Sarah, They aren't actually our roosters, they just chose us as easy marks to look after them after they were abandoned at the roadside. They rarely roost in the coop at night, they much prefer to go over the road to roost in the very open Tea tree. We have 12 acres, but they seem contented...
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    Damaged eye

    Ola! Michelle, Thanks for asking. We took 2, or as he has now been rechristened "Poppet" to the vets and fortunately the vet we saw not only had an interest in Chooks, but also in eyes. She thinks that it got infected possibly as a result from one of the sparring matches with 4 (now renamed Red...
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    Damaged eye

    Hi micstrachan, I have managed to get an appointment today at a vets nearby and two of them deal with Chooks. I would like nothing more than to wrap 2 up in a towel and give him a hug and look after him, however, we think he is about 3-4 years old, and they are still "wild". About the only time...
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    Damaged eye

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    Damaged eye

    Thanks there, However, they are unfortunately not tame birds, or even really ours, they adopted us (as gullible muggins) and according to the vet I went to last year, he reckons they are already about 3 or 4 years old. Although they have a lovely big coop that we built them, the silly Muppets...
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    Damaged eye

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    Damaged eye

    Our adopted Roosters have been fighting, especially Number 4. Last Christmas, Number 2 was mailed badly by a feral cat. He had a severely broken leg and a damaged chest and a split pupil in his right eye. He has only recently started to crow again. 4 has obviously decided that 2 was a threat and...
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    Just saying Hi to everyone

    I just wish that 4, who is currently in the coop which is being used as The Sin Bin, wasn't trying to knock ten bells out of 2. If I thought it was just rough and tumble I wouldn't mind, but he is one real bad tempered dude at the moment. As Shrek would say, "Someone is heading for a smacked...
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    Just saying Hi to everyone

    Ola1 Chaps, Yes we are new to chooks. We have a 12 acre lifestyle block in the North of the North Island in New Zealand. We retired 18 months ago and were working on our road frontage planting trees. We were watering them in and turned round to find 4 roosters drinking from the water puddles...
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