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    obsessive behaviour in ex-egg farm chickens

    Thanks - I'm not prepared to let her go at this stage. No one will want to take on a non-egg-laying bird, and other than this particular problem, she is a very nice and friendly bird wrt to humans, with a handful of really weird behaviours. I will keep at it and will try the blinkers tonight...
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    obsessive behaviour in ex-egg farm chickens

    Apologies for the long post, but it will save a lot of questions in the long run. We've had chickens for 8 years now and introduced chicks to the flock many times and have not had these issues. 3 (was 5) of my 15 chooks are commercial RIR (chickens—I'm in Australia) from an egg farm. We've had...
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    May Hatch-a-Long!

    I lost 10 hens in the attack! it would have been more if I hadn't have come home during the daylight raid! I reckon its cost me near AUD $800-1,000 in total now between cost of replacing the hens, emergency treatment for survivor, dressings, petrol, other hens, borrowing an incubator, chick...
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    May Hatch-a-Long!

    You'll only need one or two nesting boxes at best. My husband made up some wooden ones when one or two of my 22 strong flock (before the fox attack 3 weeks ago) used to use, the rest use a mixture of pet carrier (picked up for AUD $10 each) or plastic storage crates that I have cut a hole into...
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    May Hatch-a-Long!

    I'm sorry to hear about your Silkie and the fox. Chickens have the most amazing ability to heal though as I am learning at the moment, so she should survive. We had something similar here just 3 weeks ago today. The sole injured survivor (there were uninjured survivors plus one I had to...
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    May Hatch-a-Long!

    I'm new here. this is actually my first posting. I have my first batch in an incubator right now, though not my first chicks - normally I hatch under broodies. It was totally unplanned after a fox attack decimated my flock taking 10 hens and leaving me with 4 layers, 3 pullets, 1 injured hen...
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