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    How to pet a chicken?

    Usually I just gently pet them on the wings or chest - Hands coming down from above, especially if they're foraging and not expecting it, tend to freak them out. Two of my girls were hand raised from hatching, so they're both really comfortable with being touched, handled, picked up and carried...
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    Ever seen a 'hooster' switch back again?

    They really funny things indeed lol. I actually just got a bunch of tree lopping done in my yard today, so all the girls were locked up in the secure enclosure for safety, but they were still absolutely terrified because of all the noise. Once the tradies left I decided to come usher them out of...
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    Ever seen a 'hooster' switch back again?

    I have 4 girls, 2 are about 4.5ish yrs old and one had stopped laying completely as she 'went rooster' a couple of years ago, the other was seemingly slowing down naturally over time. I introduced 2 POL pullets to the flock a few months ago, provoking some strange 'pseudo laying' behaviour from...
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    Free range chickens.

    Mine free-range all the time when I'm home, but when I'm working or away for a little while they stay in their run. I have a 4x4m galvanized steel fully enclosed 'safe/security' run that their coop is kept in along with some perches, feeders, water bucket, etc, so I can close them up completely...
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    Eggs at 4 months? Wow!

    My first lot of pullets ended up with one Orpington starting to lay literally on the day she turned 17 weeks old. She continued to lay every day and they were all totally perfect eggs (no soft shells or strange wrinkles or double yolkers etc) for years, so we called her Chai the wonder chicken...
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    Tired, hunched up, lethargic hen.

    I know this is an old thread, but considering it came up for me with a quick Google I'm assuming the same may happen for others. Did you ever find out what was wrong with her? The only times I've seen chickens act like that was 1) a male 2 week old chick that came to me with worms and died in...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Snow actually laid an egg today =/ Maybe it's just a weird coincidence and she had at least one more in her before winter fully hits, in the brief period between a hard molt and the onset of winter, that just happened to coincide with the arrival of some new young gals - I dunno, chickens always...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Cheers, yeah, I'm in Australia, QLD specifically, so I'm using the word winter pretty loosely hahaha. Climate is definitely a factor, and one I'm accounting for, but the behaviour is still pretty weird and not how they usually act with reproductive and climate cycles, so I figured it doesn't...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Definitely interesting haha. Yeah, it's been just the two of them for a couple of years. My ex had the big coop we'd bought together so I figured it was easier to just take the two who were always kinda my favourites (loved all of them, but we all have our faves I'm sure) and build a smaller...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Slight update: Closed off the whole coop from the big girls to stop the constant cycle of getting into the nesting box, the other one screaming, first one comes back down, other goes up, screaming commences again, rinse and repeat. It worked after a few futile tries from Snow, so she turned her...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Yeah their laying has definitely slowed right down, and as I mentioned I'm pretty sure Solar 'went rooster' a while back so won't lay again, which is fine as I mainly keep them for pets, I've figured that they're both about done with their reproductive cycles now, and at their age I think...
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    Can Adding Younger Pullets Make Older Hens Broody/Lay?

    Hey BYC! I have an odd question, haha. So I have 2 adult hens, a light Sussex (Solar) and a white Orpington (Snow), who are both about 3.5/4-ish yrs old and have been a duo for the last couple of years, when a relationship breakup lead to having to split the flock. They both adjusted fine and...
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    Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

    Oh wow, I've been followingthis thread for ages and had to come back to marathon my way through 13 new pages of posts :clapI am INVESTED here, I tell ya! It's getting sooo close, emu day is fast approaching! You must be so excited - I know I am and they're not even my chicks! Hahaha. Absolutely...
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    What do you do with your feathers?

    Hi! As I'm sure we all know, keeping chickens means ending up with LOTS of feathers everywhere! Whether it's just normal shedding or someone's moulting, you can usually always spot where one of your birds' favourite dustbathing spot is, or whether they've gone up this side of the yard or that...
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    Brahma sneezes

    ^^ This can happen with straw/hay as well if it's a smaller area and/or it doesn't get changed enough. Bedding breaks down, gets scratched at, pooped on, dirt brought up into it from your birds, etc, and it can start getting quite dusty which will irritate the birds' respiratory systems, which...
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