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    brown leghorn moving head back and shaking it side to side

    She's been laying for about one month. Very healthy, free range. For a couple of weeks she's been displaying this behaviour a couple of times a day : tucking her head back into the top of her back, and wagging her head from side to side a few times, then back to normal. She is not doing...
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    squatting behaviour

    Here is "Minx" bought early in December, apparently she was 12 weeks old then. Not yet laying, although, look at her... ! She looks ready, doesn't she ? My question is to clarify 'squatting'. Just this morning I watched her do the tiniest poo, and then remain in a sort of poo-ing position...
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    A welsummer ?

    Here are two pics of "Minx". Bought at twelve weeks early in December. Not yet laying, despite that comb and those wattles... My question is this : is she a true welsummer ? I ask because all pics I've seen and info I've read show welsummers with red earlobes. Minx clearly has white. I'm...
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    pullets first eggs

    I think, THINK, my Welsummer may have laid her first eggs. My 'first eggs', too. New to this business. I found two mushrooms, I thought at first, in the garden. Had a closer look. Possibly eggs... brown on the outside, soft. What is making identification hard for me is that it's been...
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    chickens standing stock-still

    I was sitting with my three chooks in the backyard yesterday afternoon. All three birds were happily browsing on the lawn. One chook made a cluck, only slightly different to an ordinary 'cluck', and all three FROZE in place. They held that position for at least three minutes. They were all...
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    our first chooks

    Hello. We have a Frizzle (Shostakovich), a Light Sussex (not yet named), a Blue Leghorn (possibly Tsotsi), and a Wellsummer (Minx). They are between 12 and 16 weeks, I think. Already in love... .
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