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    Help sexing light sussex please

    Hello all Our chicks are 5.5wks old. Im keen too rehome the cockerels asap due to space, not wait til they crow. Out of the 6, one is obviously a cockerel but there are two others who regularly have little squaring up pecking fights with him. Please would you advice how confident I can be...
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    Red mite

    Btw we live in UK and have no pets in pets in our home
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    Red mite

    Hi there Ive just realised we have a pretty heavy infestation of red mite in the coop which I'm dealing with. My specific worry is this: ive berb in and out of coop at night before going to bed, kids have been occasionally carrying chickens around the house. I have now read online that red mite...
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    When to move flock with chicks to new coop

    Hi there. We have a flock of two buff orpington hens (the third died 5 days ago) with one of the hens sitting on bought fertlised bantam eggs (first time for all of us). The coop is small and badly designed so we're coverting the kids Playhouse to a bigger and better one which should be ready...
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    Raising chicks with a broody from a flock of only two

    Btw the other hen I don't think has a broody bone in her body so I doubt she's trying to take over ther nest
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    Raising chicks with a broody from a flock of only two

    Now my broody is happily sitting but at night the other hen, after seeming quite scared to enter the coop at all, then keeps squeezing into the nesting box with her. Im worried she will break the eggs. She didn't used to sleep in there. I dont know if it's because she misses the hen that died/is...
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    Raising chicks with a broody from a flock of only two

    That's so helpful. Thank you very much
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    Raising chicks with a broody from a flock of only two

    Hi there. I'm hoping for some advice please. We had a flock of 3 buff orpington hens and the one at the bottom of the pecking order has sadly just died, leaving rebecca, who is a bit rooster-like and Chicky who is forever broody. We have some fertilised eggs about to arrive for her- this will be...
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