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    Picture of my lovely "girls"

    Hi - yes the roads were rather interesting in the largest earthquake with driving through geysers and vertical shafts of asphalt, up footpaths etc, to get to my young son at school. I have a new compassion for anyone dealing with a natural disaster of any kind. I actually got into having hens...
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    Picture of my lovely "girls"

    As thanks B.hromada!
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    Picture of my lovely "girls"

    Thanks Teila! I had to take the photo sideways as her chest is actually quite dirty! Lol They free range first thing in the mornings (otherwise they yell the place down in the early hours!) and love to rummage around in the sandy soiled garden, so it was a good thing it was raining today when...
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    Picture of my lovely "girls"

    Thanks Bridebeliever! Things here in Christchurch, NZ are coming along slowly but surely after the earthquakes. Our area got badly damaged around the border of our neighbourhood, so lots of houses being rebuilt or repaired. We were lucky that our house only needed minor repairs and our road...
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    Picture of my lovely "girls"

    Hi from Christchurch, New Zealand. I haven't been on this forum for a few years, and wanted to show a pic of our current hens that we adopted a couple of years ago. They are Bella, a Light Sussex, and Stacey, a Silver Laced Wyandotte. Both girls are very healthy and never get sick, unlike the...
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    Wanting to show picture of my hens :)

    Hi. I've not been on this forum for a while, and wanted to share my latest hens which I adopted about 2 years ago. They are Bella, a Light Sussex, and Stacey, a Silver Laced Wyandotte. Both girls are so much healthier than the Hybrid Brown Shaver hens that we adopted initially, and now sadly...
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    Hen limping and sore on her back

    Thank you very much Eggsessive . I noticed today she has a bare patch in the middle of her back so my husband thinks one of the other hens is pecking her whilst she sleeps as we havent seen anything happening in the day. He just put a partition in to separate them in the henhouse at night, but...
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    Hen limping and sore on her back

    Our Wyandotte hen who we have noticed has lost her tail feathers recently (it is winter here in NZ) has started limping and will skip sideways when she walks. She is foraging okay but been off the feed we give our 3 Wyandotte hens for the last few weeks. My husband checked her over and...
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    Sickly chook

    Happy New Year and a big thank you to all your advice. Thank you especially to WillowFarm as the vent gleet suggestion sounded the best fit, and I went into the suggested website and decided to treat Milly (and the other hen Molly) with yoghurt, which incidentally they loved. And it worked! So...
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    Sickly chook

    Hi from Christchurch NZ. We've adopted two hens - one was sick, and the other one fine but with a pooey bottom. We thought it might be worms and have treated both hens with a worming solution from the vet. The sick one got better, but now the other who was fine but with a pooey bottom is...
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    Hi from New Zealand

    Thank you for your kind thoughts. I'm very sorry to hear about your cousin. I hope your cousin is able to find a new home and garden to restart in. Really feel for those who have lost their homes and gardens and local communities. A shop in Colombo St!.... Part of Colombo St has reopened and...
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    Hen pecking on the wood inside coop run

    Thanks heaps ChickensRDinos - I must look up how to make those treats/boredom busters, as they are in their coop/run (chicken tractor) for half a day and she could be getting bored. I'd let my girls out sooner during the days I'm home, but don't know how to get them back in the coop as they run...
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    Hen pecking on the wood inside coop run

    Thank you for such great advice 7&8. We have a lot to learn about hens so good to know about the beak sharpening - I must admit she has a very nice pointy beak, unlike her friend who has a dented looking one and never does the same behaviour. We have access to concrete (cement) paths and...
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    Hen pecking on the wood inside coop run

    We are feeding them layer pellets, and mash as well as scraps like salad greens (it's beginning of Summer here).
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    Hen pecking on the wood inside coop run

    Hi I'm a newbie to hens and want to know if it's normal for a hen to peck on the wood inside the coop run/chicken tractor. My two girls (Red Shavers) free range for half the day around a big backyard and seem to have enough to eat, as well as plenty of food inside the coop run
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