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    Looking for beautiful Breeds

    Now the story of the Frizzle! One rooster just started crowing at 6 am......and I was worried one of my flock was out! The gardener said....."you have a new friend!" Someone had dropped off a Frizzle rooster! He made friends immediately with the roosters and hens....and the...
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    Looking for beautiful Breeds

    Have I ever! I wanted Mille Fleur bantams.....36 years ago..I lived in Pasadena..and I asked my friend the race horse trainer (his horse won the Kentucky Derby and he had Mille Fleur bantams) to pick some out in San Diego when I heard there were some there! He said: "Well okay.....I am here...
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    Looking for beautiful Breeds

    Oh boy......you will want to add a Frizzle to the flock! I was minding my own business, raising and tending to a Mille Fleur batam flock for 36 years! Started in Pasadena.....(in a neighborhood that had not heard roosters in years!) After
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    Feeling like a total idiot

    Terrible....I have learned the hard way. Hardware cloth is the only way to go. It is on the floor and all the walls around openings in one of our coops, and we are in the process of removing small chain link (useless for rats) and replacing with hardware cloth in a big coop (20' by 20') You...
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    Lost my top girl today. 😢

    Yes. We just lost a young but not baby chicken to a Cooper’s hawk. Took head! You interrupted the feast. We left her for the hawk to finish. Sad.
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    Feeling Very Guilty...Need Advice

    Hi there! I have had a flock of beloved chickens for 34 years! Even before Martha Stewart! in Pasadena......California.....fairly urban. And roosters. Anway, we have had terriers. All rescue. I would show the dog the chickens on a leash. And explain confidently (confidence and stern...
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    I have 12 bantam chickens and a pond. An abandoned pet duck needs a home. Is it safe to adopt?

    Thank you so much! I will try! And then I will try to find some duck friends! I have no idea whether this duck has ever even seen a chicken! I just rescue when I can. I will try!
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    I have 12 bantam chickens and a pond. An abandoned pet duck needs a home. Is it safe to adopt?

    Is it safe to introduce a duck to a flock of chickens?
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    Hen with chicks can’t walk right. Could it have egg bound?

    Here he is in the nestbox with the hen I put him with.
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    Hen with chicks can’t walk right. Could it have egg bound?

    She is alert, and covering the chicks and is moving. She is eating also. But she spreads her wings to keep herself upright. It seems to be her feet. Her legs move. Thank you so much for answering!
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    Hen with chicks can’t walk right. Could it have egg bound?

    Hen has 2 chicks. Can’t walk right . Egg bound? Chicks 1 week old
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    roosters!

    I have had a flock of Millefleur bantams for 34 years! We had the horrendous mudflow disaster in Montecito 2 years ago; our flock was safe and spent 7 months at the Humane Society! We are heavy on roosters, however, and we have 5 roosters and 6 hens. They are free range in the day time...
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    Best rooster breed with small children

    are yours bantams? I love bantams....
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    Best rooster breed with small children

    The next comment mentions d'Uccles. Mine are Mille Fleur.....I found out a little while ago they are also D'Uccles. Bantams. so gentle and lovely. Not dangerous. We have 7 grandchildren......and we have had this flock for 31 years! Sweet, sweet chickens. We just hatched 6 new chicks!
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    Moving a setting hen?

    I had a Mille Fleur hen who laid her eggs outside of the coop and was sitting!! (we were collecting her eggs, not knowing she was "broody"! We have bobcats, and every kind of predator. I tried moving her at night.....into the coop; and I even stayed with her for 4 hours; and she was...
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