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    New Chickens and young chicks

    I lost my older birds to a Fox attack last week, 4 of them, but luckily my chicks were all safe. They are 6-7 weeks old and I'm picking up a new pair of birds today, around POL so any where between 12-20 weeks, not sure yet as we are letting the children pick one each. I'm wondering if I can...
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    chick behaviour determine sex?

    Two of my chicks (4 weeks old) have been 'chest bumping' like a cock fight....are both of these likely to be roos? One I'm pretty certain is for his comb development....but the secondos a wyandotte with a rose comb so no clue yet as to sex apart from this behaviour I have seen. Would a hen even...
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    HELP! Broody pecking day old chicks

    My broodys eggs hatched yesterday and the last on through the night, she hatched 4 eggs she'd sat on and I slipped under 3 more chicks yesterday whilst the last egg was still hatching. She didnt notice id added them and was no issues until this morning. She is pecjing SOME of her chicks, not...
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    Cream Legbar size Vs bantams

    I'm thinking of adding a cream legbar to my mini flock but I cant work out the comparison on size between a cream legbar and the size of my bantams...I have pekins, australorp bantam, sablepoots and Orpington bantam....how much bigger would a cream legbar be to them? I keep readig they are...
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    Laying after being broody.

    My pekin bantam has started laying again, took me by surprise and found two eggs in the coop today. She has been broody and has hatched chicks, only one of the hatched survived and will be 6 weeks old on Thursday. If she's laying will she ditch being a mum. I noticed her acting really peculiar...
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    putting chicks under a broody

    I've had to remove some eggs from my broodys nest as they werent fetile, I'd quite like to keep our numbers up and give her some day old chicks when her remaining eggs (hopefully) hatch. Hers are due to hatch on 31st August/1st September being sunday/monday. Alot of places where I can get day...
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    Blue Orpington Q

    I have a question regarding Blue Orps....I'm off to a small holder tomorrow to purchase some fertilised eggs for my broody to sit on. I spoke to the lady there today to ask what bantam breeds she currently has, and blue orps came up. Now all she said was "We have some blue orpington eggs..." and...
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    two day old chick....

    Im getting a bit worried about my two day old chick. So far I havent seen this chick eating and it always looks tired.. I was just watching them for five minutes, mum went to eat and one chick followed and was eating with her, the other stood there the whole time looking like it might fall...
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    Roosting and perches

    I've rehomed two pekins from a friend who could no longer keep them, they're around 3 years old, so don't lay regularly (one was broody when we collected them so we've decided to let her sit on a clutch we were hatching so havent seen her behaviour) but the other doesnt use her perch or roost at...
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