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  1. ChristieB

    Hen not using one leg

    Hi guys! Hoping you can give me some ideas because I’m at the point of culling my only blue egg layer! Around a month ago she started limping, I checked her out, more than once, no sign of any injury, infection, bumblefoot etc just this limp, it continued without much change with me checking...
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    Egg colour??

    Hey there! It’s been a while, question is can a hen change egg colour? I think I’m going crazy as I just found a blue egg in the coop and I have no idea who laid it, I have 4 pullets, hatched December, second generation Araucana crosses (grandmother is lavender auracana) so all have the...
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    Only lonely Hen

    hi folks, long time no see, need some advice please Unfortunately on Monday we had a tragedy, Long story short, two of my darling Pekins didn't survive a play date with my sons and friends, so now I'm left with one. My current circumstances don't allow me to get her any flock mates for a couple...
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    Pet rat help please!!

    Hi there. This is Louie, he's about 1 year old and just this week we ended up going to the vet with some serious teeth issues, he had injured himself somewhere (I think inside his mouth), and I had my 5 year old running in saying he had blood on him! Anywho his teeth were trimmed but are...
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    Let's play a game of "pullet or roo"

    Hi guys, I have 8 chicks who are 4 weeks old today. They are light Sussex X (breeder says pure but I'm not at all convinced) 2 are Orpington X Sussex, she only told me she had the Orpington hen in there when they hatched and I questioned her, hence my distrust. Any who that's all irrelevant...
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    Araucana cockerel??

    Someone please tell me I'm wrong about my araucana chick, it's the only one that survived my cat getting into the brooder, I can't have roosters where I live so I was really hoping for a pullet. It's 8 weeks old tomorrow, standing beside it's 10 week old lohmann brother
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    New babies!!

    Can't help but share the cuteness, (apologies to those who've seen some of these already) My first broody hatched chicks Rest assured, there's more to come 1030 am, mumma got up for a drink showing me all her babies!! Of course they all followed, even the wet ones,
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    Janoel 10 vs Fleur

    As the title suggests I have 2 sets of eggs cooking. Set on Saturday evening 15 eggs Under Fleur my 1 year old Buff Sussex, her first time broody I have 3 black australorps (marked with an A for records) And 5 light Sussex (marked with an s) In my Janoel 10 cheap as chips incubator, second...
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    Daycare chicks pullets or roosters

    Hiya, after opinions on my chicks, my sons daycare had a "hatching experience" I bought 2 chicks and the hatchery guy gave me 2 more. I don't have much luck with chicks, my last lot ended up being 4/6 roosters! Anywho, they are roughly 3 weeks old (give or take a couple days) lohmanns and 1...
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    Incubator newbie. Refrigerated eggs.

    Hi, this is the first time I've ever attempted to hatch eggs so I have a few questions. First the story, July 15 I bought 2 laying pullets from an ad on facebook, araucanas. The first 3 days they gave me eggs then had a bit of a break, quarantine isn't exactly inspiring for a hen, they...
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    The Burrow

    Let me introduce you to my flock First our story. I picked 6 4 week old chicks in October 2014, 2 Pekins and bantam araucana (aus) 2 rir x isa browns and a light Sussex. at 8 weeks one started crowing, the black pekin which by this point I was suspecting was crossed with araucana, by 12 weeks it...
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    Bantams

    Can anyone tell me what breed these girls are, I just took them to help out a lady but she didn't know how old or what breed didn't even tell me they were bantams
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    Urgent!!! Heatstroke!

    The shade blew off my temp run today and left my hens in complete Aussie summer midday sun for I don't know how long. As soon as I saw I brought them in. 3 are ok now, still have beaks open panting but are alert have had water and walking around but my Wyandotte is out to it, she had her eyes...
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    Quarantine question.

    Hi, I will have had my new hens for 2 weeks tomorrow, my original 3 are kept in the front yard and the new ones are out the back in the quarantine coop . My question is, it goes against all I believe to keep them locked up 24/7, I've already had to separate one hen (right beside with full...
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    Domestic rat markings

    Hi, I thought everyone at byc is so knowledgable you might be able to help me. We have a few rats, originally bought to breed for my husbands snakes, the last few litters though seem to be throwing more colour than pew. Our male is black and white so not surprising but the trouble I'm having is...
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    Old feed

    I have about 3/4 of a bag of layer pellets left from my last lot of chickens, its probably 18 months since opening so completely stale (probably rotten, I haven't opened the bin in a while to check) I wish I'd thought to give it away when we lost the last chook but I forgot about it so my...
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    Quarantine eggs

    Hi all, I have only 3 young bantams left of my flock (4 were roosters one disappeared while we were away over the Christmas weekend, our dog got in the run so we assume the worst) so tomorrow I'm getting some new chookies. 1 first year layer and 3 10 week olds, standard size of various breeds...
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    New chicks

    Me again, I contacted the lady I got my last Pekins that turned out to be roosters, and she has brought in these 2 for me, they are roughly 10 weeks old, supposedly hens, I'm unsure about the black ones tail though. I don't particularly care if it's a cross breed I just don't want to have...
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    Pecking wounds

    I'm new here and to chicken owning so Not sure if this is relevant to this forum so please redirect me if there's somewhere better to ask. When I let the chickies out this morning I noticed one of the RIR crosses had a wound on it's comb (please excuse the "it" they are only 12 weeks old so...
  20. ChristieB

    Isa browns??

    Hi newbie here, these are my 12 week old girls (I hope, not sure my uncle can take any more roosters!!) the red and the black were sold to me as isa browns, is that just a fancy name for "mutts" because my googling hasn't resulted in anything that looks like them Please excuse the dodgy photo...
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