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    Phantom broody?

    Ive got a bit of a problem with two of my girls, the thing is, about a week ago two of them started sitting on eggs laid by the rest of my girls, I kept pulling them off the eggs and sending them out of the box, they would run off to get water and food and run back in to sit again but in this...
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    poorly hen or just tired?!

    Needing a bit of advice/symtoms to look out for...one of my girls has had a bit of an odd day. She has been wandering around to find a quiet place to stand, fluff her feathers and wings up, sink her neck into her shoulders and sleep, even when i picked her up she wanted to go down to stand and...
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    Hen preening a cockerel?!

    Hi all, Ive just seen the oddest thing whilst round with my chickens, my cockerel who is very teratorial and doesnt like the hens been around him unless he is doing the business with them was stood totally still with one of my lavender hens doing what looked to be preening the cockerel, she was...
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    Mini Egg!

    Hiya all! I went round to check for eggs from my ladies this morning, collected some eggs then looked at the mess they'd made with their feeder and saw a teeny weeny mini egg on the floor! picked it up and its not much bigger than two jelly beans but end to end and double one of their fatness...
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    Blue/grey duck egg.......

    Hi all, I opened my duck nesting box this morning to find an egg had been laid that is a bluey/greyish coloured shell, im wondering which of my duckies it could belong to? ive got 3x khaki campbells who are laying white shelled eggs and an aylesbury and a mallard which arent laying atm, can...
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    **Ducks getting excited!!**

    My ducks make me laugh! when they get up in the morning and come out to play they waddle straight over to their pond or paddling pool, whatever takes their fancy really! they have a swig of water then stand there in a line and do this odd syncronised head bobbing! they quack insanly and bod...
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    Spooked ducks?

    two of my khakis have recently (in the past month) started laying an egg a day, then last week we only had one egg out of two laid then over the weekend we havent had any.....do they stop laying when they get cold in the winter like chickens or do you think something is spooking them at laying...
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    Poached duck eggs?!

    Is there such a thing as poached duck eggs? like chicken eggs? my khakis have recently started laying and i want to try them but dont know what to do with them! x
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    White sussex poorly.....

    I noticed some blood on one of my collected eggs yesterday then i noticed my white sussex had blood around her vent on her feathers, after managing to catch her and inspect her more closley, me and my OH found that she had an area about the diameter of a coke can is all red and raw with red...
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    how long do your chickens spend in bed?

    Ive just gone round to my girls to lock them up for bed and they were in an nearly asleep, it was 5pm and I dont let them out till 830am the next morning, is that too long for them to be "cooped" up?
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    Duck squat?

    Hi all I watched one of my Aylesburys (who we think is male) pin one of the khakis down by its neck and the khaki squatted quite happily but nothing came of it as the Ayles tootled off after the khaki made a right noise! does this mean that the knakis are ready to lay as do chicken when they...
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    Is it possible............an Aylesbury question.......

    Our 2 white aylesbury ducks are the same age as our 3 khaki campbells and the khakis have been quacking whereas the ayles have been squeaking! but mid last week their tails have started curling up like it says that girls have curly tails.....could they develop their quacks later than the khakis...
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    Small holding?

    Hi all, What is the deffinition of a small holding? ive got 10 ducks and 13 chickens at the mo. thanks
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    Difference between free range and organic chickens?

    Hi all, Me and my OH were wondering what the difference between a free range chicken and organic chicken that are egg layers? our chickens have a bark chipped area that they can scrat around in and get to go for a wander on the lawn too when we are around there for an hour at a time. Thanks
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    Mummy hen, when will she start laying again??

    Hi all! Ive got a mummy hen who watched chicks out that we got her from market, they are now 5 weeks old and she took them out of the nursery area we made for her to raise them in, into the main enclosure with the rest of our chickens and ducks, how long do you think it will be before she will...
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    When to clip chicks wings??

    Ive got a problem, my 2 chicks who are now 4 weeks old have grown wings and are flying up onto their house then flying over the fences thats meant to keep them enclosed, im wondering if you do clip chicks wings and how to do it if i can without harming/stunting thier wing growth?? I dont know...
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    Duck nuzzling a chickens neck?!

    Hi all, Hmmmmm think i may have a little problem! uuum one of my Aylesbury ducks has started to walk up to the chickens and nuzzle its beak into the chickens neck and then move next to it as if it seems as its going to try to mate with the chicken!! we dont even if it is a male yet, it is...
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    Green Eggs And Ham...

    Ok ok, so no ham (reminded me of a Cat In The Hat story!) but our hen who hatched out 2 chicks on day 21 still had an egg that hadnt hatched, as i dont have a candling torch yet i had no way of looking at the egg inside to see if it was ok, i had tapped it next to my ear but nothing but it did...
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    We lost 2 chicks :'(.......................................

    I went and checked on our 4 newly hatched chicks at 10:20am and they were all under mumma hen happily cheeping away, so i left them and checked on them again at 12pm and there were only 2 chicks under mumma and couldnt find the other two, i freaked and looked everywhere for them, in the box...
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    First time broody! shes hatched them!! now what?

    My broody speckeldy has hatched 4 of her 5 eggs out this afternoon, wer all very very excited! theyr all fluffy fuzzballs! they are ancona's, im wondering what to do now? ive put speckeldy a pot of food and a bowl of water in the coop where she is (that she shares with 6 other hens) she has a...
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