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    New job in Manhattan...

    Work takes me, in two weeks, from my beloved Oxfordshire in the UK to Manhattan! The hens that have given me so much pleasure over the past year are being rehomed with someone I know well, so that's all good. Question to you BYCers: where can I feasibly live, keep a tiny new flock and be able...
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    Chicken intelligence!

    Today I saw the most amazing thing in the run that I will try and capture on video tomorrow: The chicken coop has a roof that opens in two flaps. I left them open to air the coop after having cleaned it out. At sunset my Cream Legbar and Polish hen each flew into a flap from opposite sides...
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    Why chickens do what they do: Interesting paper

    A newbie, I have spent many fascinating hours watching my tiny flock. This is so interesting: - http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/farm/about_chickens.pdf
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    Gender guessing game: Please help a newbie

    What do you think? It doesn't matter, they have a home whatever the answer. The ballerina: The frizzle: I am unsure as to actual age. They are adoptees from a lady who had to place a large number of chicks and grown fowl, fast.
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    Newbie looking for advice on increasing protein in flock diet: Feather-pecking issue

    My Cream Legbar is feather-pecking my rescue Polish hen. After wading through the academic papers and practical advice here I don't think the root cause is aggression. She surgically goes for the feathers near the preen gland and no skin is broken. The area they free-range in by day (bearing...
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    The Buff Orpington foster mom

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    Advice for newbie please: - Shipped eggs and Day 19

    Hi all I have some shipped eggs under the broody hen. She has been pretty good about it all and today while she got off to have a snack and a drink I observed one of the eggs moving! That was wonderfully exciting, but after staring at the others for a good while (that must have looked...
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    Injury and recovery from a dog attack: The Polish hen (Some graphic pics)

    When my neighbour added a Polish hen to her little mixed flock, things did not start off well. Whether it was the jauntiness of her personality or the fluffy crest we don't know, but it took almost two weeks before the Bantams and Cream Legbar would let Chickadee join them in the bedroom. Her...
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    Newbie from the UK!

    Hello everybody BYC has been amazingly helpful to me over the past week caring for my neighbour's Polish hen severely mauled by a dog. I am documenting her treatment and recovery, if people are interested  - my learnings are in the Injuries forum. We have a fluffy Buff Orpington - Muriel and a...
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