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    ascites? Acites?

    I have a hen with the tail down and a squishy huge abdomen. I have posted two separate threads on here about it, and after much deliberation and vet trips, I think its ascites. How do I drain? is it advised to do this? Should ANOTHER vet trip be in order?
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    Hen with tail down update

    A few months ago, I posted about my hen. I bought her from someone I knew. I got her home and saw that she was riddled with mites, she stank to high heaven of infection and her tail was down. I cleared up her mite problem and then fed her various things like pain relief concoction I made and...
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    Newbie. HELP.

    Hi, I haven't got Turkey's yet but seriously thinking about it. I need all the help and info I can get. I am trawling through the site and finding the nuggets of information, but would like to know specifically the best breed for me. I want them as pets and as a hobby, not to eat. Can I eat the...
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    have I created a white laced?! ha!

    Hi everyone, I dont know if white laced chickens existed, but I bred a warren with a gold laced and got a chicken who has the gold laced pattern on it'a chest in red and white. Thoughts?
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    Show me the boys in your life! Cockerel and Roo thread.

    Cockerels and Roo's have a hard time, don't they? But I love them! They're so beautiful and majestic- caring (to hens!) and really look after the flock. They will give up their own lives to save the flock as a whole. How heroic! Of course, you get the odd little blighter who wants to take your...
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    Pictures of my comical flock!

    Good Evening All! I thought after the day I've had, that I had better cheer myself up. My chick got attacked by a hawk this week (picked u an dropped from a height, tearing tendons and damaging it internally and we think damaging the brain) and I spent loads at the vets on it... but had to...
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    Enclosure built. Utilized my small garden! Very pleased :D Pics

    I have a corner house, in a city in England. It tapers off to a point, yet I needed a safe haven for my ever expanding chicken family and to protect against foxes and hawks. A hawk recently had one of my chicks- picking t up and dropping it from height - it's still recovering. :( Fingers crossed...
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    Newbie to quail. Advice?

    Hi, I am an experienced chicken keeper but have no idea about quail. I need to know everything from hatching in an incubator to feeding them and housing them. I have a lady who i give hatching eggs to, and she is giving me some quail eggs for free, so i want to try and raise some. I have done a...
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    A foul smelling.. *Ahem*... fowl!

    I posted a thread about my pullet I bought yday. Seemingly fine when I collected her, but as she was sitting down in her box and looking alert, she looked fine. Got her home and I noticed the stink. I thought it was just the smell of the breeders house as it had a lot of birds in there as well...
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    Hen with tail down. Not right...

    Hi, I have bought a pullet from my fb "friend". When i went to collect, she was in a box ready for me to take home. She has her tail pointed down, literally between her legs. She looks tatty too. I haven't put her with my flock yet, just in case. I have dusted her in food grade DE, checked for...
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    What is the biggest breed of chicken that you know of?

    Hi, I am looking for a large fowl - well, an extra large fowl! I have very small bantams - One is so tiny that she is the size of a large wood pigeon. Her name is Titch, obviously :) I am after something very large now in order to have more variety in my flock. Am I right in thinking that a...
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    Thinking of starting a petting farm/smallholding business.ideas please?

    Hi everyone I am thinking seriously about a smallholding business. I have no land or anything, I only have a few chickens in my yard at the moment! But, it is something I have been thinking of for a few years now. And I want to make it happen. My ideas are to buy or rent some land and...
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    Article from The Guardian about London chicken keepers "spreading disease". Pah.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/23/urban-chicken-keepers-doing-harm Are we spreading diseases of the avian variety or are the big food production industries scared of everyone growing their own meat and eggs and being completely self sufficient? Worth a read. What...
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    Have I got sex link chicks? Pic. Warren crossed gold laced

    Hi, I have bred my warren hybrid hen with my Gold Laced polish cross roo. The chicks look identical to the warren chicks, some are white and one is buff. Is the buff a female and the other two Roo's? Here's a pic, its the two in the middle. You can see the buff one and below her, the white...
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    Baby chicks

    For sale are some of my baby chicks, I didn't expect all eggs to hatch but we must have very fertile chickens! We have warrens x gold laced which appear to have the warren sex link. So we have yellow buff ones which we expect are hens and a white one which we expect to be a roo. Others we have...
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    One hatched. 11 to go. Delay in hatching.

    Hi, there is something I didn't think about until it was too late, and that is my hens clutch of eggs being staggered in age. She collected eggs for herself from other hens over the course of a week. She had 12 altogether, and one has just hatched today :) However, I am aware that the other 11...
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    Due to hatch are some silkie, cross polish, cross gold laced, cross warren!! Pics.

    So I've been off here for a while, busy with my broody hen! It is winter here, but quite a warm winter for a change. Instead of 5 degrees C outside, it is a comfortable 12 degrees C, give or take. So I think this is the reason why my white silkie, Teal, has decided it's a good time to raise some...
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    Any ideas on what they are?!

    Hi, I know they all have gold laced in them... but what else? Here is Rosie. She seems to have the '80's crew cut! She has black skin. I'm thinking polish/silkie and gold laced? Eggs are pointy, small and white. She is Rosies sister I THINK? From same breeder so maybe same parents? Why...
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    Black Silkie cockerel UK

    Hi, free to a good home is my silkie cockerel 'Bunny'. He is a bit feisty and just started crowing. Will deliver to west midlands UK. Thanks, Kelly.
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    Gapeworm worry

    I have just had a browse at a webpage that lists the symptoms of Gapeworm. The symptom is gaping their mouths and stretching their necks. I have seen my hens do this on more than one occasion, and they eat a lot of earthworms which can give gapeworm apparently. Should I treat or leave it alone...
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