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    Chicken combat

    No chance of anybody getting injured when Archimedes keeps interrupting their sparring and breaking them up! Just curious if other people's cockerels take it upon themselves to keep the peace (or protect certain hens)?
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    Chicken combat

    I really enjoy watching our flock and seeing how they interact. We have three groups. The original 5, 5 who were introduced at point of lay and 4 babies (2 handreared and 2 raised by one of the original hens). I have a feeling that the mother of the two babies has some disposition to be soft on...
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    Can mother hen be fed on growers pellets?

    Great :) thanks a lot. It has been tricky keeping everyone away from the wrong food types.
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    Can mother hen be fed on growers pellets?

    Our mother hen is not quite ready to let her babies go it alone, but they're approaching eight weeks and we're getting ready to switch to growers pellets from chick crumb. Is it alright for mother hen to eat a diet of mostly growers pellets too?
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    Review by '' on item 'Orpington'

    We have one Black Orpington. Perhaps we got lucky, but she is not at all low down the pecking order. Despite being the youngest in our flock of 10 with 6 different breeds she is 4th in the pecking order (and the top 3 (joint 1st in a sort of dominance triangle) are all confident older birds)...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We have 6 hens. Got 5 eggs yesterday and 7 today. This giant was laid overnight. http://i.imgur.com/nybXnQ2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zSfc82D.jpg - the egg next to it would be large in a regular store http://i.imgur.com/tTu8pIu.jpg can't close the box with the egg in it, especially if I put it...
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    Lethargic, tail down, not eating, not drinking

    With a bit of TLC this chicken eventually got better although we never figured out what was actually wrong with her. She's up to her usual antics of doing everything to escape the pen so she can eat plums in the garden. Only thing is she hasn't laid any eggs and she's been better for over 3...
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    Broody Hen With Big Plans

    She doesn't have any eggs, although she sits on other peoples when they're available :)
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    Broody Hen With Big Plans

    We have a broody one who we've shut out of her house where she was nesting. Now she's charging around at the others and trying to fly, and she jumped over a fence and tried to climb up me. I think she's going mad :p
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    Lethargic, tail down, not eating, not drinking

    4 days later and she's still ill. We've checked for a stuck egg and while there was an egg the first time we checked, it seems she's now laid it (so it wasn't stuck). We've just put her back in for the night and we tried putting some food on my shoe (she loves pecking it for some reason). She's...
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    Lethargic, tail down, not eating, not drinking

    Thanks for the replies. We put her back in with the others to sleep after she had some yoghurt as we thought it would be less stressful. It seems like she laid this morning because we had 5 eggs and 4 of them were brown (we have two that lay pale eggs). Pretty impressive given how little she ate...
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    Lethargic, tail down, not eating, not drinking

    We've separated her from the others (just sectioned her off an area on the other side of their coop boundary). She's eating yoghurt and pecking at the grass, but I still can't get her to drink anything. Her poo seems normal. Finding it tricky to figure out just what's wrong with her.
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    Lethargic, tail down, not eating, not drinking

    What antibiotics would you use for that? Do you isolate them and give it only to the sick chicken? Apple cider vinegar is easier to get - you just mix that in with their water and it helps? We mixed some yoghurt with pellets for her and she ate that quite happily. She was also moving around...
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