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    pheasant /chicken crosses

    Oh okay, something about being a new egg stops me from being able to post pictures. I need to post more! Will get on it. Edit: figured it out, I hope this work, and I'm terribly terribly sorry if I break any unspoken forum etiquette or anything! Do let me know - I'm a new egg. Here's my baby...
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    pheasant /chicken crosses

    Seriously late reply but just did a quick search and found this conversation. I had a wild cock pheasant join forces with my hens (by that I mean he ate their food, roosted in the shed etc), and a month or so later we had a hen hatch 11 eggs. Only one survived to maturity, and she (Zipper) is...
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    Hen Stress - wild pheasant

    Thanks! I really just wanted to confirm it and get someone else's opinion. Its good to know my chook-instincts are on the money. I hate to say it but we had no choice but to get rid of the pheasant yesterday. I caught him twice fighting with my rooster, and I wasn't having that - he's the best...
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    Hen Stress - wild pheasant

    Hi there, I have a small flock of about 10 hens, plus a rooster. Lately, a wild cock pheasant has been in and out of their all-but-free-range run. He's been there for about a month, and at first it seemed like there were no problems. The hens and rooster ignored him. But in the last week or...
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    New hens into flock of existing hens + chicks?

    Hiya. Bit of background before I ask my question, I have 7 hens and a rooster. One hen has four 3-month old chicks, and one hen has four 2-week old chicks. We let all of them - rooster, hen, chicks - free range together, and they all sleep in the same house at night. I'm considering buying two...
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    When to put broody and chicks back with flock

    I would let them out when they're about 4 weeks. I had one hen sitting on eggs twice with only about a month or two in between. We moved her and her eggs into a little house with a run attached, fully secured, but inside the larger run that the other chickens have (both times). The first lot of...
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    Egglaying/incubating/hatching process - many questions!

    Hi there guys, this may seem like a really silly question, but I really have no idea! Recently, we had a hen sitting on 15 eggs in a lavender bush (technically they're meant to be in their 1/4 acre run, however, they've decided they'd rather be free range chickens and turn our garden soil for...
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    Sick chick, 3 - 4 weeks old, wobbling/off balance. Help?

    Quote: Thanks for replying. I have noticed blood in the droppings with this one, yes. Mold in the feed I don't think so, we feed them twice a day and always get rid of any old left over feed. Nope, they're not on medicated feed. The fluffing up the feathers and acting cold, yeah, that...
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    Sick chick, 3 - 4 weeks old, wobbling/off balance. Help?

    Hi there, I hope somebody can help. About three or four weeks ago, one of my hens snuck off into the garden and was sitting on 15 eggs. 14 hatched, and the day they hatched, we put chicks and mother in a hutch of their own, within the orchard that the other 8 hens + one rooster have as a run...
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