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    The intelligence level of chickens

    Fair enough, I feel corrected! I had not thought about him showing them where to go - suppose that does make sense.
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    The intelligence level of chickens

    Just had an experience which makes we really wonder just how dumb some chickens can be. For a little context, I have a 6 year old hen who really knows her stuff, does not run off for treats when we throw them, but waits expectantly by my feet, knowing I will toss some directly down to her...
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    Not sure where to post this :(

    Not sure where this should go, but feel I need to talk to people who might understand. We have 16 girls, 3 boys, all sorts of breeds but mostly Welsummer, Rhode Rocks and cross-overs. Lately the boys have had discussions about who is top and I thought it had got settled. The two younger ones...
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    Egg laid in the yard, not the box!

    I do not know if it is normal (with chickens what is normal?!) but my girls do have their favourite nestboxes. We now have 9 for 16 girls (recent expansion from 5 for 10 girls) but the definitely have two favourites that they use. I have seen girls queuing to get in when someone is already in...
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    Unusual Chicken Screaming (Video attached)

    I have several make that sort of noise, it is definitely a conversational one. They are more insistent if they see the tub I use to fill up their food, and there is also the highly nosey quizzical noises I get from a couple who just appear from under the coop when I have walked aorund it: 'What...
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    Columbine chicks - how many male, how many female, do you think?

    Yes, there are 5 altogether - the lighter one in picture 2 is a Welsummer, and I pretty sure is male - did not realise he had snuck into the photo, but fairly typical of his behaviour so far :) If there is going to be a chick who gets out / jumps out of your hands / walks through the waterdish...
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    Columbine chicks - how many male, how many female, do you think?

    They should all be Columbines - that is what I ordered and the eggs were either blue or a greeny-grey colour.
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    Columbine chicks - how many male, how many female, do you think?

    Hi All you wise ones. I have hatched out for the first time some Columbine chicks - I think it is a legbar cross or related somehow, so am told they are auto-sexing. I think I have got one male and three females - am I correct? One has a definite large yellow/cream blob on its head, one has a...
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    Largest egg you have had?

    I was just wondering whether there are any other nerds out there who weigh the eggs they get at all? - or is it just me ?! My record so far in last few years have been from a Bresse - 109g, and a 100g shell-less. She was over three years old at the time, and still laying quite well. Still...
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    Can someone tell me what breed this might be, please?

    Thanks for your views! She is not actually that large - same size as the Welsummers maybe although fluffier, definitely smaller that the Black Rock female or Bresse Galloise female I have. Toes - just the normal four - three at front then supporting back one. Looks like there is an Orp of some...
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    Official BYC Poll: Why Do You Have Chickens?

    Well when we moved here the previous people had 4 chickens, which put the idea into my head I suppose. Three years later I persauded hubby that we could get 4, look we will get eggs, chicken poop is good for the clay soil... It then gradually increased. Sometimes by one dying which meant we...
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    Can someone tell me what breed this might be, please?

    Hi Folks, I have long been puzzling on this girl - we have had her three years, I was told when I bought her as a 10 week old she was a Welsummer cross. However, I have since got Welsummers and they do look majorly different - their top of head down the nect and shoulders area are golden...
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    Advice appreciated - excess of males

    Hi All, I have got two sets of chicks at the moment - 6 who are 7 1/2 weeks old, and 3 who are 6 1/2 weeks old. Two sets because we put some in the incubator, and then a hen went seriously broody for the first time for us! Anyway, I think that 2 of the six are females, and 1 of the three...
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    Advice, please - let her out or not?

    Hiya, advice appreciated for this situation! I have a broody who hatches 3 chicks, now just over 5 weeks old. First time I have had a successful broody - other chicks have been the incubator method. They still sleep in one nestbox together, and when I went to pick one up a couple of days ago...
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    Can anyone sex these four, please?

    Thanks all - much appreciated. I was going on the eyeliner and head patch to think one definite pullet and probably two cockerels, with one uncertain. But I have never had this breed before and could not work it out from googling images - so was confused. Great to have some feedback from experts! :)
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