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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi Dana, welcome
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi All in Ireland and your Peeps, Me here..... just wanted to let you know of a charity that rescues animals in Ireland and they occasionally rescue ex battery hens. The lads and ladies work very hard to collect thousands of hens that would otherwise be culled, advertise and forward transport...
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    Hen with difficulty walking. Legs or abdomen the issue?

    Sorry to hear about your loss, chin up, you tried and went and got some help xxx
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    Administering meds

    Hi all, most of you old hands probably know a thing or three but I'm posting this to try and help someone who might be struggling. My chooks have been given a course of antibiotics to take and so I started yesterday dissolving the capsule in water and trying to syringe it in, with a chicken...
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    Top Ten Ways to Accidently Kill a Sick Bird

    How about medicating with Paracetamol? I'm ashamed to say it was pure ignorance on my part.... I was so concerned and panicked after a dog attack (that she may well have survived) I'd separated her from the others, kept her in a box with straw in the kitchen and was convinced she was in pain. If...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi ya. Are you new to the site, or to chickens in general? This is a great place for info.
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    What is this animal thinking?

    "It wasn't me!"
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Eating out of your hand is the first step, next thing you know they are in the kitchen and perched on the chairs and like mine get carried to bed of an evening! Ha ha. Good luck
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    Laying eggs without shells (not rubber eggs, eggs without shells)

    Hi, I've just had my first experience of this too. Only two hens, no egg eaters and she hasn't laid for three days prior so have been keeping her close to look out for her. She's pretty friendly anyway so that part has been easy. Out of the two, she's the one that seems to like being cuddled...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi Broodyhen 2 I expect if I really looked at it, it would be cheaper for me to buy my eggs as what we get just about cope with in house demand so no, I don't. Hubby is back next week and will be home based from then on so we might have to look at increasing our current flock of two. Will have...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi BroodyHen2 Hope all's going well. We got our girls from Ballina. Must have been a market on a Tuesday as one of the girls got called Ruby "Tuesday" Denise
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi we mostly have some form of cooked breakfast: rashers (bacon) egg(s) black and or white pudding (a sausage made of cereal and pig bits all boiled up and forced into a plastic sheath that's then boiled at the makers) this is then cut into slices and fried by the consumer. Tinned baked beans...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi, mine are pretty good and lay most days and have been good since they started/we had them (as pullets). Ruby, the brown leghorn seems to vary around the clock- if she misses a day she's the first the next morning. She's supposed to lay 280 average per year and the Daisy Bell 260 for the year...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Hi, We're not breeding ours but have two for eggs. One is a Brown Leg Horn (what I'd call a standard brown chicken). She lays white eggs and what we got sold as a Daisy Bell. She has mostly black feathers with a brown - ish speckled neck and black legs and is a big heavy bird with wide...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Aww, sorry about your two. Looks like you have lots more to keep you busy!
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