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    Boy or girl please :)

    Hi All, Thanks for helping in advance. Wondering about this lavender buff orphington. I hatched 10 cross orphingtons/barred rocks and ended up with 5 roosters (I think) but this one is confusing me. He/she certainly acts like a rooster but has no real comb development to speak off but it is...
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    Flock suddenly attacking one chicken

    Hi All, I have 14 hens (Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, Hylines and 3 pekins). They have lived harmoniously for over a year now and rarely do we even see squabbles. BUT the last two days the flock has been attacking of of the pekins and now she is hiding out in the coop unable to leave. I am going...
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    Grow out pen with mother hen - how big?

    Hi All, My pekin successfully hatched some fertile eggs for us and we now have 4 x 2 week old chicks. They are all in a little pen together (about 1m by 2m) and this is within our normal coop which is 13m by 3 wide. Our mother pekin has had enough of being in this box (even tho it has a small...
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    Broody about to hatch eggs but covered in lice

    Help please! I have a broody about to hatch chicks (due today/tomorrow) and I have just noticed she has a lice infestation and it looks quite bad! It seems to have come on pretty quickly- I have to physically move her off her nest everyday to feed and I didn't notice any lice before but now she...
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    White spots on egg shells (and slightly cracked)

    Hi All, My Wyandottes have recently been producing eggs shells with faint white spots, some of which have hairline cracks. They are fed good quality laying pellets and a few handful's of veggie greens every day from the garden. They appear their usual healthy and happy selves. However, we do...
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    Advice on starrting a mixed flock of guinea, chicks and ducks please

    Hello, I have a 1 x 5 week old guinea fowl, 5 x 6 week old chicks arriving next week and I have the opportunity to get 2x ducklings around the 10 week age. I know that often successfully raising a mixed flock is easier when all the birds have been raised together in the same coup from a young...
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    4 week old keet pecked and really sick- what do I do?

    Hello folks! I am new to this so any help would be so appreciated! I picked up two four week old keets from a breeder yesterday and when i got them home one has obviously been pecked really badly. He had a wound near the base of tail the feathers (and had lost some), had laboured breathing, was...
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