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    Anything to help my Wyandottes start laying?

    My X3 Wyandotte pullets began laying at about 8 or 9 months and laid through Winter. This year one after the other starting first wkend in June...no eggs for x7 weeks and gave in to buy half a dozen at $6.69?!!
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    Review by 'Jen-the-Hen' in article 'Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging'

    Really well-written and informative article thank you. I am waiting for a friend to build me a walk-in coop & run, as currently the destruction of my back lawn & amount of poop all over the place to scrape up is getting a bit much. I want them to be happy though, so it will need to be bigger...
  3. Silver Laced Wyandotte Show Girls

    Silver Laced Wyandotte Show Girls

  4. Silver Laced Wyandotte Show Girls

    Silver Laced Wyandotte Show Girls

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    New to raising chickens have questions

    Suggest you get yourself a copy of NZ Lifestyle Block "How to Care for Your Poultry" Volume 1 has two pages devoted to "What their poo can tell you" and "The Bad Poo Guide" - including handy reference photos! Great help to new chicken-owners!
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    I finally gave in and joined

    We all learn something here - even if it's just that we're all crazy-chicken people - (even us Kiwis at the bottom of the world!) 🐥🐤😁
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    Weka question

    Ever since the 1840's at least!!! 😂 Does Big Blue Hen come from Australia and be pulling the proverbial (chicken) leg??? Weka is our native swamp-hen. The old-timers' saying goes, "To tell if a Weka is cooked, put a stone in the pot with it, and when you can put a fork in the stone, you know...
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    Hello from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

    Hi Tookie, you've got some impressive photos of individual chooks in your mixed flock! Either extremely patient, or an excellent telephoto DSLR?!
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    Hello from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

    Greetings Newbeechick... welcome to the wider flock! What sort of chooks have you got? What part of Southland do you hail from? Both my parents are from Dunedin and we all love the South Island!!!
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    The New Zealand Thread

    Best plan is to buy "viable eggs" and either find someone with room in their incubator, or pop them under a broody hen...once hatched and dry, they need a warmer plate to snuggle under until fully feathered (out of baby-fluff) I had mine at 3 days old and they were a joy to watch growing and...
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    The New Zealand Thread

    My SLW eat worms and small bugs too, but not snails??? Pity about that!
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    The New Zealand Thread

    Hi Peastix How many chooks do you have? I'm in Napier with three Silver Laced Wyandotte girls. 😊
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    The New Zealand Thread

    Hi someone at work in Hastings had a bad experience with Red Mites, and strongly recommend DE in all cracks of coop and dusted into untreated pine-shavings bedding in coop (even before I got my chicks 18 months ago) - so far so good with no mites!
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    The New Zealand Thread

    Yes our Hawke's Bay A & P Shows were what started my interest in the Wyandotte breed, and I discovered the Hastings Poultry & Pigeon Society there. I became a member about 18 months ago, and have learned a lot from belonging to HPPS - so recommend you join your local poultry club! 😉
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    The New Zealand Thread

    Hi, just came across Hi I'm in Napier NZ, only just came across this NZ thread after looking at this website for at least 18 months!! Had just assumed it was mostly American chicken people, but naturally their weather and predators etc are different to our Southern hemisphere ones! I have x3...
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