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    One dead, one sick! help!

    Thanks form your helpful response. I wormed them only 2 months ago and the rest of the flock appear plump and healthy. I'm still trying to find a vet, she is still hardly eating or drinking. I'm going to the shop now for some natural yogurt and will stop by the farm supply for a medicine...
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    anyone from new zealand

    Hi! I'm over on the West Coast of the South Island with 9 Barred Rock, 5 Bantam-X's, a mutt and a lovely husband. I'm originally from the usa, but I really feel at home out here. It's nice to see so many Kiwis here.
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    One dead, one sick! help!

    My lovely chicken is really sick and I have no idea what to do. I have called all up and down the coast (West Coast NZ, small population) for a vet, but no one handles chickens and I have been told to wait until she dies and send her into Christchurch for an autopsy! I find that cruel, and...
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    All my BR's broody! ;(

    Since I got rid of our big BR roo all of the BR's have gone broody one after the next. We let one go, and she just hatched out 3 sweet little fluff butts this morning ()but abandoned her remaining eggs (). We put those under the second one who went broody a week after the roo left and she is...
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    Rooster gone away, Hens gone mad!

    Oooh ye! I'm at the end of my run at the moment. I posted an add on the main trading forum here asking if any very friendly vegetarians wanted our lovely rooster, and so our dear Xerox went to a new home and a bunch of love starved hens. He seemed pretty happy with the arrangement...but our...
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    Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

    Pixel, Dot & Xerox for two hens and the giant rooster...Tough&'Nuff for the two identical sisters, Handsome for the little hen with the crippled toes (she was the cutest puff-ball ever seen)...all Barred Rocks. Now I've got 2 new BR hens coming in in a box in the car with my husband on Saturday...
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    Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

    You know you're addicted to chickens when You sew them little hen saver saddles that match their feathers (black checkerboard for BRs)! You call your husband from town to tell him to throw a couple apples into the run. You pick up 2 more cute BR at point of lay even though you already have too...
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    POLL: Did your roo turn aggressive towards you?

    Cowgirl, ! Same. Xerox is so, so sweet with the lassies. Same as your red he calls them to the food and waits until they have had their fill. He might have a bit too much mojo, but none of them have lost a feather or complained. But he's so bad that I now take an umbrella with me when I...
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    POLL: Did your roo turn aggressive towards you?

    I just came on BYC today because I'm upset. I have a very BIG BR roo who has just really gone rotten on me. He was selectively saved from what started out as 9 roosters (babies) because he was very sweet and mellow when the others were not. Each time I noticed one of the boys turning into a...
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    What do you got in the fridge that should not be there?

    The fresh dog food, chicken scraps, the soaked feed wheat when it's hot outside, a sealed box of topical anesthetics, parsnip seeds...nothing too OOTO.
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    Your Chicken Pictures Needed For The BYC 2012 Calendar

    Handsome's House!
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    Your Chicken Pictures Needed For The BYC 2012 Calendar

    Had to edit away botched upload attempt, but couldn't remove post completely.
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    When did your Barred Rocks start laying?

    Mine are 27 weeks old (born 26 December) and still do not lay. Recently I even supplement their diet a bit with canned fish, boiled yellow peas and other protein rich stuff, plus the usual Swiss chard and fruit and layer pellets. They aren't fat. They aren't skinny. Their eyes and feathers...
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    Hens' point of lay mid-winter (NZ)??

    My BR hens are just turning 23 weeks old at the end of this week. It is mid June, so it is also mid-winter here in New Zealand. What will happen with the first lay? Will it be postponed until spring (September?) That's 10 more weeks. Can they really hold off that long? And what if the...
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    Big bloody rip in comb!

    I didn't dub the comb myself. I dislike the idea of harming animals to groom them to a particular look. I simply cut off the above mentioned flap of ripped comb which was dangling awkwardly and probably painfully from the top points of his comb. It was about the length and width of an...
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