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    Mixed Flock Ideas?

    my favourite ever hen was a columbian brahma - just so very sweet, gentle and friendly. she was that way from the day I got her at 10 weeks old, very laid back chook indeed!
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    Integrating Juvenile pullets

    how awful to have that happen! I do as the others here have suggested: I set up a coop and run within the free range area that my main flock use and put the newbies in there. They stay there for about 2 weeks whilst the others get used to the sight of them and eating along side them etc, then...
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    Keeping new layers 'cooped' up

    chances are that your hens won't always lay at the same time of day anyway, so it's best, if possible, just to let them out in the morning but allowing them access back into their coop to lay their eggs at any time they want. Mine free range from 8 every morning and live in 3 separate coops -...
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    WEIRD or ODD Eggs pics!!!! :)

    impressive!! did you weigh it?
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    Kenya Heritage Flock Management for Free-Range Table-Eggs and Meat

    Lol! braver than me! can't even look at a picture of the things!!
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    Kenya Heritage Flock Management for Free-Range Table-Eggs and Meat

    good luck, it sounds like a very challenging and worthwhile project. We recently returned from living in Kenya and didn't keep chickens for that very reason - snakes!
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    Hen Needs a Break - Any Suggestions

    thanks, will give extra vit D a try..as perhaps setting a dog on her to induce moult may be a little harsh :-) vit D deficiency would hardly be surprising given our lack of sunshine!!
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    Hen Needs a Break - Any Suggestions

    she already has plenty of calcium - layers pellets, oyster shell (which she does eat) plus a powdered supplement which includes calcium - I think the trouble is that she is partially trying to moult as well as continuing to lay. She has may a dozen new feathers appeared - but is clearly trying...
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    Hen Needs a Break - Any Suggestions

    I have one hybrid hen who is about 18 months old I guess - she should have gone into moult last autumn - but due to our screwed up weather she didn't. No big deal but now her eggs are suffering as a result of not having a break. She is a little egg laying machine! and continues to pump out a...
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    What is the longest you have waited?

    35 weeks and still waiting with my speckled sussex pullet....!
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    Chicks by Mail?

    thanks very much for your responses and information. I guess in the end it comes down to the vendors acting responsibly and maintaining good animal welfare practices to minimise risks: these don't seem to have done - not even a heat pad...
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    Chicks by Mail?

    I've just read 2 threads about chicks dying following being mailed out to their new prospective keepers. I'm sure that there are rarely ideal climatic conditions for them to travel in - often too hot or too cold. From what I understand, they are not being delivered by the company sending them...
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    arrrrrg more mud !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    aarrgggh!! I just typed a long reply then accidentally deleted it!! so in short: I'm in Devon and it's horribly muddy here too! so was looking today at those rubber chippings...looks like an effective idea but I don't know what the cost is like - compared to say bark chippings, laid in the...
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    The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

    Thanks Renie and Aveca. I just adore the Orpington character as much as their looks, I'm after a couple of Splash ladies next... ;-)
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    sound

    not sure I can describe it any better than as them sounding a bit irritable about something! I've watched my youngsters walk in and out of every coop available, chattering away all the time as if they have lost something and are really rather annoyed about it! and then sure enough...you soon...
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