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    Aggressive chook

    Hiya We've just introduced five new darling chooks to our established (1year old) three chooks. Connie is being really aggressive to the new ones, specifically picking on one (Murphy... who is so good natured).. but also pecks at the others. She tries to pull out their feathers and has...
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    Space required for chooks

    Hiya Me again!!! We have an external coop (omlet go up) and run 1m x 3m with three chooks (sadly lost one last weekend). We are going to get some more chooks. We have an extended run (outside of the omlet run) of 3m x 4m. how many chooks would that hold, please? Ideally we would like to...
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    Should I worm our chooks as a precaution?

    Hiya I've never thought of worming our chooks but sadly we lost our precious Keira last night... she was put to sleep at the vets... she apparently had a lung infection. She was as right as rain on Friday. Anyway I don't want to dwell on that at the mo.... but whilst looking on the net and...
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    Muddy run

    Hi all I've read the great article on muddy runs, but I'm still not sure what I should do!!! Senior moment methinks. Anyway... we have a go up omelet coop and run, so I'm confident that when our chooks are asleep they are ok. However, we extended the run with another walk in 3m x 4m run...
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    What type of paint to use on chicken run

    Hiya We decided that the omlet run was to confined for our chooks, we think they were going stir crazy, especially as they had freedom whilst we are in the garden to roam free. Anyway we've just bought a 3mx4m run which is made of aluminium poles and green netting. We would like to paint...
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    Noisy chooks

    Hiya we've had four chooks for around 8 weeks. One is an absolute delight, one (my very first thread re a broody chook) is now reticent but the other two? Freya is the one that seems to excessively demand attention vocally throughout the day and it has caused Connie to copy herl I am...
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    My new chook keeps sitting down

    Hiya. We got four chickens (on Monday). We've never kept chickens before but we adore them. Anyway one of them keeps sitting down on the ground. I've read she may be broody, but that broody hens sit in the coop. I'm really worried. Shes between 21 and 25 weeks old. All four have been...
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    My new chook keeps sitting down on ground

    Hiya. We got four chickens (on Monday). We've never kept chickens before but we adore them. Anyway one of them keeps sitting down on the ground. I've read she may be broody, but that broody hens sit in the coop. I'm really worried. Shes between 21 and 25 weeks old. All four have been...
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