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    [LIST - Over 1,000 names!] Chicken names!

    Our Rooster is Professor Dumbledore - and among the hens there are Flossy, and Lilly (a white hen, how original!); these are the only two that I can properly tell apart from the others as they are the two bantams! We also have chicks who are yet to be named, and one chick (the "runt") called...
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    Hello Everyone!

    Hi everyone, I'm from South Australia, and live in the wonderful Adelaide Hills on a nice, big property. We have 12 hens, and a rooster, and recently have had five chicks hatch (with some more to come in the next few weeks!) We moved here about three years ago, and got five chickens 'with...
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    chick not eating or drinking, help!

    I haven't much experience at all with chicks yet, so perhaps wait for some more experienced people to comment on food. Mashed-up boiled egg is pretty popular with the 10 day olds though.
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    chick not eating or drinking, help!

    One of my chicks has a curled foot too - I have found this site, which has some info. I'm guessing that the leg going the wrong way is what's mentioned here, and it sounds a lot like hip dysplasia in babies (which is fixed with a funky harness ) . As for not eating and drinking - what are you...
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    Raising an abandoned chick?

    Hi all, my family and I have twelve hens and a rooster. We have had the chickens since we moved to this house, and we got the rooster recently (four or five months ago). And now, we have a bit of a problem with an abandoned chick! - about five weeks ago one of the hens went broody, and was...
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