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  1. KIWI CHICK

    Hoping someone can advise me please

    One of my girls, Cilla Red, is not very well. Her tail is down, and she is so lethargic that she just sits where she is. I know coccidiosis only/usually affects young birds, but up to what age? Cilla is nearly a year old and maybe she is too old? Her belly is soft and squishy and I cannot...
  2. KIWI CHICK

    Broken egg under my broody hen

    Hubby and I came home from a week and a half away on holiday so my sons were babysitting the hens for me. 'Freckles' was clucky before we went so I gave her 10 eggs to sit on. When I lifted her up to check on her eggs, one of the eggs has broken and some of the remaining ones have dried yolk on...
  3. KIWI CHICK

    Quick question

    Hi all. I have a quick question to ask. If you had one 3 1/2 year old Shaver hen and wanted to introduce 4-5 more, would it be better to get pullets who are 26 or so weeks old, laying, and used to free-ranging or younger girls about 15 weeks old who are still in a run? I did think the younger...
  4. KIWI CHICK

    Advice please?

    I recently sold some Brown Shaver pullets around about 20 weeks old to a friend of a friend of a friend. He has come back to me to say he wants some more as he has had deaths, but I don't want to sell him any more of my girls until he figures out what killed the last ones. He had two existing...
  5. KIWI CHICK

    Incredible mothering!

    I had an Araucana pullet sitting on 6 eggs. The night before they were due to hatch I decided in all my wisdom to move her, her eggs, and her nest into a safer area. I heard/ felt something drop but couldn't see anything by the light of my torch, but the next morning there was one of her eggs...
  6. KIWI CHICK

    My Barred Rock boys are now in the freezer, but

    For the first time ever I have put roosters in the freezer, but I think I may have mucked up. I did not realise that I should have left them in the fridge for a few days. Are they going to be tough? I was hoping to be able to roast them but are they going to have to be cooked in the crock-pot...
  7. KIWI CHICK

    Yay!

    Hello. I asked on here about some fertile eggs I popped under a clucky hen one afternoon and my son collected them lunchtime the next day thinking he was doing me a favour. Well, thought I'd let anyone who was interested the outcome. Out of 9 eggs, 1 exploded on day 19, 1 didn't hatch, and I got...
  8. KIWI CHICK

    Oh no!

    I have a brown Shaver who has gone clucky so I went out and bought her some lavender araucana eggs. All good so far, but the next morning, Shavie was sitting in another nest on the golf balls I leave in my nests. Aaarrggghhhh! The eggs felt cold to the touch but as she had only sat on them...
  9. KIWI CHICK

    New Hens

    Hi, this is my first ever post so I hope I have it in the right section. Yesterday I bought a second hand chook house off trademe (your craigslist) and it came complete with 14 x 2-4 year old hens and a rooster. I have rubbed their legs with vaseline as they looked a bit 'horny' and have...
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