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    live chicken coop feed

    Amazon have some great cheap cams on offer, why not fix up your own?! I had a camera on the front door that wasn't working well due to light levels, so I made of use of it in the back garden to watch the girls. Works really well and much more entertaining! Simple cheap set up, wifi to phone...
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    live chicken coop feed

    Enjoy!
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    Henlay's recycled Gothic plastic coop review !

    Thank you! :)
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    Henlay's recycled Gothic plastic coop review !

    Hello all Like many who started off with a Chinese wooden coop/run and having realised quickly it wasn't practical, I learnt fast. I went in search of something a lot more robust and easier to clean. I compared functionality between Nestera and Henlays coops, but being a huge Pugin fan, in the...
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    Free signs for advertising eggs at your gate, and matching egg box labels ! (NOT to be used commercially)

    Hello all I may be a new chicken keeper but I've been designing websites for many years (and YT videos). As my girls have just started laying, and knowing I won't be able to eat all of the eggs, I thought I'd sell them to neighbours in my village. Of course that meant ordering a sign and...
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    Humane euthenasia old hen: place in warm, closed box near flock, & let it pass naturally??? (e.g. from dehydration)

    Please take her to a vet, you clearly love her and they will help her pass more peacefully. They won't charge much.
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    Is this coop worthless??

    I wish I'd known about this forum before I bought my wooden carbuncle. The attached run was impossible to clean out and two weeks later, it was dismantled and thrown. I bought a cheap walk-in enclosure and am still using the coop section for now, as my three girls like it. But when starts...
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    Chick that just hatched, legs are out. Like a sitting Position

    So sorry to hear about little Winne. RIP little birdie.
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    C. W. A. (a.k.a. Chickens with attitude)

    Hello RoyalChick :) Poor pup got a peck on the nose from Dillys today, and Mabel got me on the leg - my delivery of lettuce was too slow. I've made them a dustbath, a swing, they have big branches to climb on and for roosting, lots of nice grub and still they misbehave. I'm now building a bigger...
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    C. W. A. (a.k.a. Chickens with attitude)

    Ah, thank you! Good to know :)
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    C. W. A. (a.k.a. Chickens with attitude)

    Greetings all New first time flock tamer here! Mabel the Blackrock is channelling her inner mafia mother, they're all around the same age but she's already laying eggs and really has a bad attitude. Poor Gerty (Speckled) and Dillys (Bluebell) aren't allowed anywhere near the lettuce. Is this...
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    UK Law change - all bird keepers must register their birds with DEFRA

    Hello all. My apologies, I should have been more specific. All I meant was, I wonder if that particular page had not been updated (and by inference, that voluntary had become mandatory).
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    UK Law change - all bird keepers must register their birds with DEFRA

    Interesting conversation. I've very recently brought my girls home, nothing was said to me by the seller. As of today, Monday 10th March 2025, the government page https://aphascience.blog.gov.uk/avian-influenza/ still states that registering less than 50 is voluntary. Is this a case of just a...
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