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    Chickens don’t like Carhartt

    Chickens can be so silly, haha. Mine have a variety of shovels and brooms in their enclosure they normally have no problem with, but if I pick one up suddenly it's the scariest thing in the world. They hate pretty much all tools, except for the watering can, since I use it to refill their water...
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    Chicken Adoption Story

    This story is from earlier this year, but I thought I'd share it here. Back in spring, around five of our hens went broody and they all hatched chicks except for one who got unlucky. The picture below is one who did hatch chicks, and she was a great mother. By that I mean she'd have my hand off...
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    Snuggling Behaviour

    Ah, that's good! I just wanted to make sure it's not a sign of illness or something we should be worried about. Good to know I'm free to 'aww' haha.
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    Snuggling Behaviour

    This is something I'm wondering about, since I saw it again today. Fluffy, a naked neck pullet we hatched earlier this year was making soft little clucks, then went over to her 'brother' Simon, and tried to get underneath him like a chick snuggling under a hen. He seemed surprised, backed off a...
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    Gender of lopsided chick

    Thanks for the replies! I had suspected as much. I guess it's just his little quirk then.
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    Gender of lopsided chick

    At the end of May we hatched a batch of mixed breed chicks with one of our broody hens. Recently it's becoming clear we've got four pullets and a cockerel, but I'm just not sure about the last one. I thought he was a cockerel at first, but now I'm not so sure. He doesn't bite like his brother...
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