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    What breed are these?

    Is it likely the if the black and white ones are either speckled sussex or anconas that the hens could develop spurs and are they available as bantams?
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    What breed are these?

    I had wondered if they were a speckled sussex, but thought there was too much black and white colouring and not enough brown...
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    What breed are these?

    Here are some other photos:
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    What breed are these?

    I was given these chickens the other day by my neighbour. He told me they are plymouth rocks, though their markings are quite different. They are quite small which leads me to believe they are bantams, (they are slightly smaller than my 3 month old pullets). The two 'speckled' looking birds have...
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    Cross Breeding Lavender Araucana with Blue Laced Silver Wyandotte

    All I can say is, wow! I have a white wyandotte as well, also some black australorps, a rhode island red... This could get interesting.
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    Cross Breeding Lavender Araucana with Blue Laced Silver Wyandotte

    Thank you Ridgerunner for your extensive reply. I'm quite new at keeping chickens, and breeding is something I'd like to get into in the future, whether that be heritage breeds or experimenting with cross breeding, though your reply has given me a lot to think about and some motivation to see...
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    Cross Breeding Lavender Araucana with Blue Laced Silver Wyandotte

    I have recently had half a dozen Lavender Araucana's hatch. During the incubation period I had thought about the possibility of cross breeding a rooster from this group of Araucana's with a Blue-Laced Silver Wyandotte hen I have. My initial thought would be the wonderful colouring and markings...
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    Chicken friendly garden

    I found this book while searching on Pinterest. http://fab.com/product/free-range-chicken-gardens-81479
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    Introducing chicks to the rest of the flock

    Ok, that's good news. We are exchanging our rooster for a hen today, so I will look to introducing the chicks to the flock either today (Friday) or tomorrow (Saturday). Thanks for your advice!
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    Chicken friendly garden

    Thanks for your insight, I thought this might be the case. I have 7 chooks in an area about 50 square meters, which isn't a huge area in terms of sustaining vegetation, though certainly sufficient for them to scratch around. I had thought of laying turf down though this is probably just as...
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    Chicken friendly garden

    Would anyone know of any books on designing a chicken friendly garden? We have not long come out of a very dry Winter and there has been little rain so far this Spring -- Summer is not looking terribly good either. With a lack of rain, the grass has died with no sign of returning, particularly...
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    Introducing chicks to the rest of the flock

    I thought I'd start with some background first. One of my chooks was broody and hadn't been laying for some weeks. It was recommended to us that we get ourselves some 'day old' chicks for our hen to adopt -- well, she has taken to them quite well and has been looking after them superbly. My...
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    Hey all!

    Thanks Sumi for the advice, and to you too, redsoxs, for the greetings. Looking forward to the discussions, I'm hoping to learn a lot. Nathan
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    Hey all!

    Hey all! I've recently joined the site in the hope to better look after my chickens. My family and I decided get chickens in an effort to become more self-sufficient growing our own fruit and vegetables we thought the next step would be to raise our own chickens for the eggs. We've had our...
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