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    Happy Fall to you too! Nearly Halloween 🎃 👻
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    So glad to hear you're now up and about but please take care and don't overdo it! Congratulations on the new pullets! What are Zombies? I've not heard of them . I assume they're a new hybrid? DH finally caved and agreed to 2 new pullets in June - a bantam Cochin and a frizzle bantam...
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    Oh no! All that harvesting to be done out there too... Hope it heals quickly and well ❤️
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    Just the sweetest couple 😍🥰😍
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    Oh that is so cute! My Swedish Flower roo used to like sleeping with one of my cats - in her cat bed! I think he liked the bed more than my cat tbh. What are you going to do?
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    Sapphires are a hybrid between various heritage breeds and high production, commercial chickens, laying approximately 290 - 300 eggs per year. Their average lifespan is around 5 - 10 years. Some  do stop laying as early as 3 years, likely due to the commercial hybrid genes, though most will lay...
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    How far down the pecking order is your young chicken? A primary cause of soft shells in younger birds is bullying and/or stress. Also shocks caused by exposure to predators, loud noises etc. In fact, soft shells in general are less likely to be caused by calcium deficiency than other problems...
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    I didn't hatch mine so perhaps mine weren't handled much in their first weeks? I'd love to get some Shetland hatching eggs but I can’t risk any more cockerels.
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    Add to this, ALL my birds choose to sleep in nest boxes!
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    Ooh! I'd love ducks but my hubby is the opposite! I can have a few chickens but not ducks as there's insufficient space for them. Unfortunately, he's right - or there'd be a few Khaki Campbells, Indian Runners and Shetland ducks running around! Got to say on the house training, I've only had...
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    Shetlands are a fabulous breed. Although technically, they are a 'landrace', not a breed. I really can't recommend them enough. I've got to point out it's my Pekin, Ferdy, who's house trained and Connie, who helped train him, was an ex-battery hybrid hen. Shetlands ARE a little more intelligent...
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    From my experience, I'd add calm and very gentle to that mix. Gladys is current head honcho in my small, rather mixed flock. She has never been mean to the bantams, like I've heard other standard sized hens can be. She rules with a velvet glove rather than an iron fist. The only time she really...
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    Your girl had obviously been in secret training for that moment her entire life 😁 I only have 7 chickens atm, a standard sized Shetland hen (approaching 7yrs old - still laying every other day and still thinks she's a spring chicken), 5 bantam Cochin (2 hens, 2 roos and a 13wk old pullet) and...
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    We had that kind of rain here in the U.K a week or so ago. There was a total deluge in a few minutes which flooded the covered run and even got in our kitchen. My bantam Cochins' feet were very unhappy, being wet and muddy, despite the run being mostly paved with (normally) excellent drainage...
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    Pru is very prone to bumblefoot and I'm constantly on the lookout for it as a result. I suspect it's because she is on the hefty side for a bantam cochin. With Pru, I try to avoid surgery unless the site is really inflamed or she's limping. If I catch it early enough, she usually responds well...
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    The run re-vamp sounds great, we put up a solid roof about 2 years ago. Beats tarps hands down! Mine will not eat layers pellets AT ALL, so pellets of any kind are a complete waste of money for me. Plus, I have the two roos to consider as their calcium intake has to be limited. Although the...
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    Breed and age are huge factors in egg laying. Also, the number of eggs a hen will lay in her lifetime is predetermined at birth, they hatch containing an egg follicle for every egg they will ever lay. Of course, this predetermined amount is then affected by other factors during the hen's...
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    I usually have a very small stock of tylosin (tylan), doxyclycline, enrofolaxin (baytril) and amoxicillin. Obviously, you have to be very careful with dosage, how you administer it and egg withdrawal periods (I tend to use Poultry DMV and NOAH for finding this information). You also have to be...
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    Just had a look. Definitely will be using them!
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    This is a problem we've had for years over here. I ask anyone I know who's going to a country where you can buy otc to bring me some back.
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