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    Magpie Geese

    I just hatched some for the local zoo in Darwin, Northern Territory. Very different to regular geese, as these you have to assist with feeding as babies. I wet the crumble and handfeed it to the bub as close to a dabbling bill as I can get so he can eat it from my fingers. I constantly dip it...
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    Review by '' on item 'Belgian d'Uccle'

    I have wanted this breed for years. Ever since I went to a lady's house to buy a mixed doz fertile eggs and saw her one singular millie fluer d'uccle hen. She only had the one but I had never seen one before, and considering I live in a very small poultry community it really sparked my interest...
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    Spots in light sussex neck lacing. What causes this?

    I've noticed quite a lot of light sussex chickens sold in my area have really bad "spots" throughout their lacing. I've been told by a few breeders that it's the result of inbreeding, or breeding a coronation parent over a light sussex, then breeding another generation from the young resulting...
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    How to train my Border Collie to herd my chickens

    I have an elderly friend who has a kelpieXborder collie that she uses to herd her rhode island red chickens every afternoon, and in the morning there is one pair my friend likes to keep locked up, and she can make the dog keep them separate so that they stay in the pen, or herd them back in if...
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    sexing salmon faverolles--still confused (update)

    Lol whoops, my bad. Just scrolling on by and was like "Hey, I can answer this question." Guess I was 5 years too late haha!
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    sexing salmon faverolles--still confused (update)

    My first ever faverolles chick I hatched (local pick up eggs and only hatched 1 chick!!) I noticed the wings were black at that young age and I got so upset, as I really wanted a girl. Then a week or so later it turned out to be a girl. So just wait it out, I was just lucky that I didn't sell it...
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    Can I Add A Cool Down Horse Feed Into My Chickens' Diet To Help Them In My Hot Climate?

    Bit of a different question. I live in a really hot and humid tropical climate; great for bantams. However I have a friend with a salmon faverolles hen that is really struggling with this heat. My faverolles is doing very well, I'm not sure if it's diet difference, different ventilation in our...
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    what other birds can be housed with Red Golden Pheasants?

    I have pigeons, japs and bobwhites in with my goldens. My goldens are terribly friendly, but if I am raking out the aviary and one of my chickens walks in the pheasants will "ram" the chicken to kick them out. I've never had pheasants get out as it is an enormous run and they tend to stay at one...
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    Comment by 'lyrebirdjacki' in item 'Marans'

    Thanks One Chick Two. Unfortuently like I mentioned, our marans in Australia are heavily inbred. One one recorded import before the poultry import ban was brought in, so you can imagine how our breed has fallen. People have tried improving it by bringing in other breeds like croad langshan (to...
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    Review by '' on item 'Plymouth Rock'

    Despite these being such a popular breed of chicken, its pretty hard to get them where I live in the Northern Territory in Australia. My partner brought me back a dozen from Melbourne (with two other breeds as well) and I hatched 8, however I had two that died later on. Of course, 4 roosters and...
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    Review by '' on item 'Marans'

    My first ever eggs I bought in the post from online were french wheaton marans for my autistic brother. I actually didn't know they were wheaton, but I thought they were cuckoo as I never heard of the breed prior and just googled "marans" on google, assuming they were cuckoo. Found out through...
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    Review by '' on item 'Yokohama'

    I haven't had yokohamas for very long but I purchased a pair from Brisbane from quality lines to make sure I started off the bat with good birds. Freight ontop to be sent to the Northern Territory and it was close to $500 just for the pair. Definatly no one local to source new blood from later...
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    Slipped Tendon in Chick

    Thank you both for your replies. Ciqala, mine has her leg at an almost 90 degree angle, she's a little worse than yours but I'll try wrap it like that, might give her a bit of a break from her ankle being leaned on all the time. It's nice to see however that she is functioning quite fine with...
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    Slipped Tendon in Chick

    I hatched my first lot of welsummers ending up with only 5 chicks, all hens. One of them however on the second day I noticed an injury so I isolated her indoors. Each day the leg got worse not matter how I tried to fix it (I assumed splayed legs) so I did a bit more research. Turns out its a...
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    Can you clip ringneck pheasants wings so they can't fly?

    I've lost numerous gamebirds to self injury and had to switch to a shade cloth roof as to not loose my pheasants like the many quails before them ever going in there, however if something really wanted to get into the aviary I don't think the shade cloth will do much good apart from just cutting...
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