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    ⠀ Losing feathers and weight

    Hi, thanks for the advice. I would take my chooks to the vet but where I live there is no vet that knows how to treat chooks.
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    ⠀ Losing feathers and weight

    I have a few hens and a rooster that have lost their feathers on their back. One hen and my rooster are pretty bad. Their skin is red and looks like they have been plucking out their feathers. My rooster is losong his feathers on the top of his wing connecting to his back. I grabbed my rooster...
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    Rooster Bully

    Yeah. I am trying to get rid of him
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    Rooster Bully

    He is 8 months
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    Rooster Bully

    I have a little flock of 15 chooks. 4 are roosters. I have a massive Sussex rooster-Ken, a pretty little mixed thing-Charlie and two silkies-Chris and Feliks. Charlie is a big bully. He chases the hens everywhere pulling out feathers and fighting them. He has attacked big lovable Ken and Ken was...
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    Chicken Puns

    Those are some fowl puns, I think I may crack unless someone hatches an eggcellent pun soon
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-contest - Post your funniest chicken pic and win!

    Charlie my young cockerel who is 5 months vs my 3yr old hen Mayvis
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    Help me figure out the breed

    He is only 5 months but the hens bash him about. My 3 yr old Sussex rooster hasn't bashed him yet. I am waiting for it though.
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    Help me figure out the breed

    My cockerel and my little golden hen don't have 5 toes but there is a chance that they were crossed with a silver lace wyandotte and a white silkie rooster. I have no idea. They were just freebies and who doesn't want free chooks? Thanks for your help :) The young cockerel certainly gets up to...
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    Help me figure out the breed

    As everyone would I leaped at the chance to get free chooks. I wasn't told the breed. I think two are Plymouth Rocks but I am really stuck with my goldy pullet and colourful rooster. They have feathers on their feet. Here are some photos
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    Light Sussex

    My rooster is pretty vocal but you get used to it. The hens are very quiet. They are lovely
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    Light Sussex

    Here is my Sussex hen Mayvis I have three and they will be two in November :) My other hen Sheila, these were taken when she was only a couple of months old. Last but not least my rooster, Ken. We have a love hate relationship, he hates me when I go near the hens but he is happy...
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    Beak Disaster!!

    PLEASE HELP!! I walked into the chook pen and the tip of my roosters beak , Ken, was hanging down with lots of blood. I cleaned away the blood and he managed to put it back into position but will I have to take the slightly snapped tip off or leave. I worry that it might hurt him when he pecks...
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    Lonely chick

    She now has a buddy and they never separate! They follow me everywhere when I take them out of their box. They are doing fine.
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    Lonely chick

    Yes she does. She has gotten better now. :) She gets excited when I go over to her box and she follows me everywhere.
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