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    Nesting, then egg song.. but no egg!

    Hi all, I have a 18 month old RIR hen who has always been a good layer. The past maybe six weeks she has not laid. The other hens slowed down also, but we put this down to the extraordinarily wet weather we have had here (the city even flooded this week - luckily we are on high ground). The...
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    Strange Growth - cyst? Eggbound??

    My barred rock hen has been moulting the last few days and today we noticed a large lump at the base of her belly. She is eating and acting normally, but has not been laying. Not sure if the moulting is due to the lump, but she is growing back new feathers while losing them at the same time...
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    Hinged (swinging) door on Coop - like a cat/doggie door?

    Hi there, has anyone tried (successfully) to use a pet door on their coop? It gets daylight here very early in summer, about 4am, and the chooks screech until they are let out. I've been making the trip out to the backyard in my pyjamas all winter to save the relationship with my neigbours...
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    Moulting when so young?

    Hi all, I have a hen something along the lines of a wayandotte/sussex cross that has been laying for around three months. the weather has just started getting cooler here, down from the 30+ daytime (celcius) temps of summer (mind 20's at night), to low 20's during the day and around 10 deg at...
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    Too young for layer pellets??

    I have a couple of chicks, well I think they are still 4-6 weeks from laying judging by their combs, even though they as big as the layers. They are getting too big for their small coop so I want to put them in with the bigger girls who are on laying pellets. During they day when they are all...
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    'Demanding' hen

    Hi All, Has anyone had a particularly demanding hen... one that starts making a low growling ...bbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrkkkkk brrrrkkk brrrrkkk brkkkk at 5am in the morning until you let it out? One that refuses to use the automatic feeder (ok, so maybe it's just stupid), one that repeatedly hurls...
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    Freeloaders?? .... now with small egg!

    Here are some photo's of my RIR/Australorp X and what we think is a Sussex/Wyandotte X. They are somewhere around 21-25 weeks of age now, we don't know exactly, and have been on laying pellets for just under a month, and they've got fake eggs in their next boxes (although the better half...
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    Some kind of rocks?

    I just bought these two chicks - we think they are about 12 weeks of age (and hopefully hens). The black one looks like it is part barred rock, the other a little like a partridge rock - but with a rose comb. Does anyone have any other thoughts? I know it's a bit hard to tell from the...
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    A chooks life... with added sunbaking chooks

    It's been the first really sunny day here for a few weeks and the chooks decided to seek sanctuary in their favourite spot in the garden, and I just had to take a photo. Neither are laying yet, but the change in their combs over the last two weeks has been very dramatic - hopefully eggs are not...
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    Roosting on top of my Fridge!!

    Hey all, I have two hens who would much rather roost on top of our 6' high outside fridge every night after their free-ranging session, than in their 6' high roofed 8x8' square semi enclosed hen house with lots of high perching areas and things to roost on/in. When it gets dark I've tried...
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    any advice on sex- the old owner and I are puzzled

    Hi all, I have a little rhode island red hen which I raised with another bird from a couple of weeks old. We could tell the he other was a definate rooster about four weeks ago so we gave him away as we are not allowed to keep them. I bought another chook to keep the rhode island red company...
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