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Correction: 3088+15=4013

14 hens, one roo. 2 bantam cochins, 1silkie, 1 light sussex, 2 hilines, 1 houdan, 3 mixed breed, 4 lavender araucanas and the buy is a gold laced Wyandotte. 3072+15=3087

Hi All, We have 11 hens, outside with a shed and run, but they generally free range during the day. We recently got some quail (2 hens and 1 roo so far, they're about 8 weeks now, 8 more fertile eggs in the incubator), who at the moment live in a cage in our living room. We were planning to...

Hi, I have a 6 month old buff orp who has (I think) diarrhoea, and has a dirty butt. He is the only orpington I have, and the only boy. The girls butts look fine. Is it just because he has such a fluffy butt? I only really noticed it today, but he is so big he normally can't get up on the...

Thanks all

We feed ours house scraps, between the chooks, the compost bins and the worm farm nothing leaves the property Basically, if I would eat it, I feed it to the chooks, except avocado and chicken meat (I don't mind feeding them cooked egg scraps, they love it). Our raw vege scraps go into the...

We're in Lower Hutt, just out of Wellington. Whereabouts are you?

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We first got chickens 18 months ago, a friend with a farm brought me a 'grow your own chickens kit' to work, I turned up and there was a box on my desk with a broody hen sitting on 14 eggs. She hatched 8 of those, of which 4 were...

I would third (or something?) getting a proper waterer. We have never lost a chick (from three lots), and you can buy them really inexpensively. (the bell kind where there is only a rim around for them to drink from). Hope you have better luck next time! I can imagine how sad it is to lose...

It would be much easier if you could use a foster hen, but I don't think you could introduce 10 day old chicks. Why not just hatch your own? Much easier, we have hatched 3 clutches of chicks under broodies, and mama just does all the work (it's generally heaps cheaper to get fertile eggs too)...

We don't clip, our pen is roofed (it had chicken wire for roofing but last winter it got really muddy and horrible for our poor girls, so dh built them a gorgeous polycarbonate roof, with a grapevine growing over it) so there is no need, and we have various high roosts and shelves to add...

We've hatched 3 lots of chicks so far and have let the mamas/chicks have access to the outdoors from day one (in summer time). They usually stay indoors for a couple of days then go out, although the chicks stay pretty close to mama for a while. We have hatched our chicks in with the other...

Oh dear, that doesn't sound good! We don't want to permenantly have two chicken runs (we are in the suburbs and space is at a premium) so if we can't house bantams with our other girls I think we will have to give up We had a little rosecomb rooster once, he was boss rooster even though we had...

We successfully did it, and with a hen who hadn't been sitting for long and had just been moved to a friend's house (he hatched his own, but then didn't have a suitable brooder, lol, so freaked and asked to borrow one of our girls). We did it at night too. As the other's say, either you'll...

Hi All, I have been reading for a while, but have not asked any questions before now. We have (at the moment) 5 hens, 1 pullet and 1 cockerel (both 5 months, the cockerel will probably be dinner soon though). It is autumn here in New Zealand. We have hatched 3 lots of chicks now, the first...