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    Male or female

    Hi peoples just wondering if you could assist me in whether I have a male or female on my hands here. This is Franky, now 3months old possibly closer to 4months. Also is Mum and Dad Piper and Flopps Hoping they may be able to help with the sexing of Franky, either way I am not fussed just...
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    Chicken covered in oil

    If anyone can please help many thanks in advance. My chicken has fallen into a drum of oil. Unfortunatly the landlord left the lif off a drum, thinking it is crude oil/. I have washed her off with wool wash (earth product) it only had a small amount off detergant in warm water. I think I have...
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    Chick not being accepted

    Hey guys try to keep this short. About 3 weeks ago we had some issues with a fox. Wont go into to many details but as a result of a not nice person throwing bricks at our coop and as a result of this a fox got into our coop and took 3 hens and our rooster. For those who know, 2 of them were our...
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    chickens hatched in house, now what.

    OK so this is going to sound pretty trippy but hey only I could manage such a thing. In a year we have gone to having 2 chickens to 9 hens and 5 roosters. they all get on fine and no problems. They are all free rangers. The past couple of weeks we had 2 chickens and 1 chick taken by a **** fox...
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    Spurs on roosters

    Ok so the 6 little chickens we found and rescued have been Identified as Sea-bright bantams, Now our dilemma is we are can't work out when spurs appears on the roosters... can't work out if one is a rooster or not. It has a tiny little red knob on the head, no gullet thing, and no spurs... We...
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    What kind of chickens are these

    Today we went for a walk and sadly we came across 6 chickens, all shoved in a box and left under a tree. No second thoughts we grabbed the box headed home with them. I don't think I have ever felt a box tremble so much! Now the dilema we have is what type of chickens are they. Really makes me...
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    to move or not to move eggs

    Our Bantam Hen has gone broody again and is currently sitting on 6 eggs. The worry I have is that she is sitting on dirt... no hay and is not in the coop. I have managed to build around her a make shift coop which is ridiculously tiny, but protecting her from any unwanted predators. As I have...
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    New Best Friends

    So I had to tell some chicken lovers this story as I receive a lot of raised eye brows when not so much chicken lovers hear this. Saturday I was sitting on the couch feeling quit ill from my medical treatment that I am receiving at the moment feeling rather like living in a toilet bowl, When I...
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    Central Victoria- chicken loving sellers

    Hi guys I hope I am posting in the right section. I appoligies if I haven't. I am after some hens to add to the flock. I have looked in classifieds etc but their is none of the kind I would like. I was hoping to find some more Old English Bantams, Hoping if someone from around here would be able...
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    Please can anyone help have a sick chick

    I have a 8week old chick who is not well, she is still moving about, but she is all puffed up and dosial if she doesn't have to move. The flock will move around the back yard but she gets left behind. She tries to keep up sort of does but just puffs back up and sits their chirpping. The flock...
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    Rooster lonely or cold? not sure

    I have just come back from locking up our babies for the night. I did the usual head count checked waters and anything that may look abnormal I may need to attend to. As i was exiting the run I realized (run is built onto the coop) That Bubba (rooster) is not "roosting" so to speak on the...
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    more then one rooster?

    Just wondering if anyone has more then one rooster in their flock. 2 of our four chicks are roosters, we know we will probably have to let them go to new homes, but still hoping that possibly not all roosters bully each other about
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    Hoping they are healthy :)

    So my chicks are 3 weeks. 3 of them are big and 1 is like a runt... my favorite, a zippy little thing and reminds me of a foster baby we have at the moment, so I called it after her, Skylark. My only concerns are that it's still more fluffy then the 3 bigger ones. Eats well and drinks well...
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    my rooster has cramps?

    My poor rooster boy Bubba seems to do a michael flattly number on the spot.... In other words he looks like he is dancing on the spot, I'm guessing these are cramps? if not, what would it be, if so is it normal, and should I be concerned?
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    age of chicks perching

    My proud gems are nearly 3weeks old. I noticed that they are trying to perch on a bit of wood on the ground. I have rigged a mini one up in the coop about 1inch (no higher) of the ground Just curious as to when they will start to jump up on the perch at night time as they still sleep in the...
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    Anyone from OZ? Dame Magpies

    I am really having trouble with magpies swooping my rooster, he isn't much of a fighter and tends to run (I would too!) when they come at him. My concern is that as they actually attack I'm worried for our chicks. They are starting to wonder the yard and I really can't keep sling shoting the...
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    Ovations?

    Stupid question so appoligies ahead of time, but how do I give ovation to someone? I take that it is a good thing lol but not sure how to return the "favor" to someone for passing on ovation to myself
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    Need to show my new Babies to Anyone

    So Proud of my Chookies, Dookie (mum) has been so good with her 4 babies, and Bubba (dad) has been such a wonderful dad who has done nothing but watched over his flock. For first time parents I am so proud of them no xmas chickens here!!! (JOKING!!!)
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    YAY!!!!! thanks to all for help

    Big thank you to all for your help and advice, today we had our first hatchling/s! It's our very first with Baby chicks, Mum is clucking away and Dad announced it very loud and clear.....mind you setting off the rest of the roosters around the neighbourhood. We are yet to know how many have...
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    not sure

    Sorry if this post is in the wrong place, this is our first time hatching, well egg sitting, our hen has been sitting now for well, we are not sure now, I noticed 19-20 days ago, she started to sit, all good their, but that was when she only had 2 eggs, bit slow on the intake here, she then laid...
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