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    unplanned chicks in chicken run, help!

    I checked them two days ago and no hatchlings, I couldn't find any other eggs, we had 4, 2 hatchlings and one dead chick still attached to the egg. Not sure on the missing one, but not under the hen. These can't be more than 48 hours old but hopefully less. I put down a shallow dish of water and...
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    unplanned chicks in chicken run, help!

    I have had chickens for a few years and now some eggs have hatched. They are from a mid size bantam and mid size rooster. A larger chicken has gone clucky and now I have 2 baby chicks. Maybe a day old. They are under the clucky hen, but I have no special food or water feeder for them. I have...
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    Worm Dosage for mixed flock

    I have no idea how much they drink, I just refill their water as required. So it looks like I just mix up a batch of say 500ml with 40ml of wormer. Thanks for the replies.
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    Worm Dosage for mixed flock

    Hi, I have a mixed flock of 4 hens: 2 Belgian Duccles (about 1kg each), an Isa Brown (~2kg) and an Australorp (~3kg). The Isa Brown in particular has been showing issues with laying and may be underweight. Otherwise she seems fine, active etc We have been getting a lot of smaller wild birds...
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    No Rooster, hens stop laying

    Hi, I had an unruly rooster. He attacked everyone, and was too much man for my two hens, so I gave him away. I was usually getting close to two eggs a day on average from my two x-breed layers, which are 18 months old and seemingly in good condition. I have more chickens but two died from...
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    hens with damaged wing roots

    Ok, so I have gotten rid of the rooster around 8 weeks ago. The brown hen has not shown much sign of improvement, still with those bare patches, although there seems some growth of feathers, so not worse. How quickly should this fix itself? Anything I can do to assist, and could there be...
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    Introducing new smaller breed to hens

    Ok to follow up, I bought two small Belgian D'uccle hens, sisters, who look like fat little hawks, all brown and spotty. Very cute. I kept them separate from the two layers for a few days, either having a smaller cage inside the run, or letting the bigger hens out and having the little ones...
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    Introducing new smaller breed to hens

    Hi, I have an unruly rooster and 2 x-breed layers. Due to numerous unprovoked attacks I am going to get rid of the rooster, soon as possible really. I wish to introduce a new couple, perhaps something smaller like a French bantam or silkies. Perhaps a breeding pair or rooster with two hens...
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    hens with damaged wing roots

    No, but I don't give them much and I am not sure if they even eat it. Melbourne is not really cold, minimums around 3-5 Celsius at night, and 10-15 Celsius during the day, so 37-50F typically. The rooster is aggressive, and has attacked me, the kids and my mum. He also wakes me and the kids...
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    hens with damaged wing roots

    Hi, I have two hens and a rooster. I had more but mareks and some other random events thinned the flock. I have just noticed this damage to the wings of the hens, on both. Please disregard the dark red near the right wing in the photo, it is not blood but beetroot and other fruit and vegetable...
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    new coop: concrete base or elevated floor

    Hi, I am putting together my first coop and run. As I have a wife and kids, we of course already have the 8 baby chickens... I am lucky enough to have 5 acres in SE Melbourne, so size is not an issue, but placement and convenience is. I have an old dog run about 4.6m x 10.5m made from...
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