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    The pecking order :(

    Thanks for the reply i think it is handy to know, i believe that we will not be keeping the roosters as we live in a built up area and even though my parents also keep chickens they do not fancy having a roo as it may annoy the neighbours . Hopefully we will take the 2 roo's to a nice local farm...
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    The pecking order :(

    Youlku (male 2 the bigger one who loses) Tweety (the smaller one who attacks Yolku) The 2 we believe that are Hens
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    The pecking order :(

    Hi All I was just curious on a few things really, our little chicks are becoming not so little anymore and it would seem that we may have 2 roo's and 2 hens. The issue now is that it seems the 2 males are fighting quite alot and one of them in particular "the smaller one" seems to really go...
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    Sexing chicks

    Oh dear, the mrs won't be happy
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    Sexing chicks

    Hi Everyone We had 4 of our chicks hatch over 2 weeks ago now and i was wondering how you can sex them, they are all beautiful little things and i really want them all to be hens but i am quite sure that some of them may not, here is a pic of 3 of them for now any info would be great and info...
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    Helop for a newbie

    thanks for the replies some material for me to catchup on this week
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    Helop for a newbie

    Hi There everyone i am quite new to the whole raising from Chicks and i wanted to get some advice before i just go out there and start doing this. What i wanted to know is: What are the basics? is there currently a thread that indicates the do's and dont's of bringing chicks up? i just want to...
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    The story continues for Kerry..

    Well you may not have read but we had a tragedy earlier this week where we lost 2 chickens Jade and Jordan 2 beautiful chickens were taken away from us by a fox, however out of this was a survivor Kerry (pictures to follow). Kerry has not been herself since the incident and has been very upset...
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    One of my chickens is pulling another ones neck feathers out...

    from my experience our chickens would groom each other daily, so if they are molting then they may just be helping it along.
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    Lost chickens to a fox :(

    With being next to a big town in the UK our house is situated off a main road, the garden is quite large and the chickens have free range in the garden and there is no way in for any other animals. We have seen Foxes in the garden before the chicks have lasted over 18 months, we were out for...
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    Lost chickens to a fox :(

    i think we are going to get at least another 2 chickens again, do you think the older chicken will be ok with having new companions?
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    Lost chickens to a fox :(

    Hi all i am new here and it is quite a sad post but we have just today lost 2 of our 3 chickens to a fox ... we had let them out as usual in the back garden to roam around and had been out for about 20 mins, when arriving back we noticed that 2 of the chickens had been killed . I really have 2...
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    Hi from the UK

    Hi Everyone I was browsing the web looking for somewhere to get some advice on looking after chickens and i noticed this great community of people here so i thought i would pop on and say hey going to post my first thread in the predators area as we have just lost 2 of our 3 chickens this...
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