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    sick chook, total newbie chook owner

    i'm new to chickens, i've never had one sick (injured yes) this girl has suddenly gone all sad and mopey, her comb is dull and not standing up like the others, she's not leaving the coop at all, just standing in one corner looking miserable, when i picker her up i noticed water dripping from...
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    redneck incubator

    i needed an emergency incubator so i've come up with a quick solution i stood a styrofoam vegetable box on its end like a cupboard, put a heat lamp in about 15cm from the bottom, put in the eggs with a couple of trays of water and punched a hole through the side for a thermometer, then i...
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    unjured chicken - help?

    i've just noticed i've got an injured chicken, i first noticed because she was sitting down and had laid a half formed egg, when i picked her up i noticed she has a wound on her back, down to the bone but not too big, about the size of the end of my finger, it looks like a puncture wound, it had...
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    is this weird?

    i collect the eggs every night before bed so i know exactly how many they lay - usually an egg each every single day. we have 7 chickens, tonight i collected 8 eggs! how unusual is it for a chicken to lay twice in one day?
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    sugar cane waste as litter?

    can i pick more experienced minds? i have my coop set up with deep litter, this time when i cleaned it i couldnt get shavings and i dont like straw (not that i could get any at the end of winter here anyway) so i had a brainwave and used sugar cane mulch i bought from the local nursery, its...
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    crack for chooks!

    after reading a few threads here on meal worms i went and found some for the girls keep in mind these chooks were bred in a hatchery, never been handled and flinch when i try to pick them up, obviously the fastest way to a chooks heart is though its stomach! :lol: plus one keen observer
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    perhaps a dumb question?

    i dont know chicken breeds very well, we've only ever bought chickens from a big commercial supplier and they're a cross breed designed for high egg production - great chooks, tough as old boots and and egg a day like clockwork, rusty red or red with a bit of white. but i love the look of the...
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    Chookingham Palace...or how I decimated the jungle

    new here but i thought i'd post some photos of what brought me here in the first place we have a jungle back yard , no other way of describing it, our pole frame house is perched over a gully and we only have this tiny pocket hankerchief backyard that had gone to weeds. we've had chickens...
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    Hi from Oz :)

    Hi, I've been lurking here for weeks looking at chook house designs, I figured I better introduce myself.:D I've picked up some brilliant tips here and Chookingham Palace is well on its way to being built, we put up most of the frame today and it should be finished in time to pick up the...
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