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  1. Rafa

    Urgent is this a Roo please

    Sorry to re-post but really need to know on this one. Everyone is convinced its a roo but me! Could be why Rocky hates her. Was told bluebell hen about 20 weeks old, not yet laying. Hope you can help, many thanks.
  2. Rafa

    Breed and Gender Help Please

    Hi, these are my two new very timid ladies Ginger and Eddie. I bought them as a Bluebell and a Maran age 20 weeks, they are not yet laying but was told they should be within a week or two. However my hubby is convinced they are both Roo's as they are being picked on by the other ladies and...
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    Will they ever mix?

    Hi, I have just purchased five lovely new ladies, three brown lohmans who have just started laying, one bluebell and one maran about 21 weeks but not yet laying. My flock was getting a little small due to age and I only had two brown ones and a rooster left. The two browns ones are old and...
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    Kindest Way to Break V Hen, Taken Eggs Away!

    Hi all, I have had a hen sat now for 26 days, and realised I must do the kindest thing for her sake, and take away the eggs. This was my first time with a broody so I let nature take its course, but unfortunately even through Rocky was doing his job very well, non have hatched and were all bad...
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    Update on Broody Hen and a few questions

    Hi there, Rafa has now been sitting on eggs for 13 days and I am starting to get a little excited. Shes been really good, coming out everyday for about ten minutes to eat, drink, poop and have a dust bath in the sand pit. Its quite funny watching her go on a hundred mile an hour mission doing...
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    Broody Hen Problem

    Hi I think I have a broody hen as she has now been sitting for three days and if I go near her she just pecks me. I have five other ladies and one rooster who has been doing his job quite well, so fingers crossed. Anyway heres my problem, the broody hen is sitting in the nest box that they all...
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    Ivermectin Question

    Hi, sorry if I have posted in the wrong place but wasnt sure which one!! I have just done my 6 monthly routine Ivermectin/harkamectin drops to the ladies and think that two of them are going broody. I am sorry if this is a silly question but will it be ok to let the chicks hatch? as I know...
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    Can chickens get Asthma?

    I noticed this morning that one of my chickens is breathing really loudly, in and out. I can hear her from as far away as about twelve feet! Shes acting and eating quite normally and is not gasping for breath. Shes a very timid little lady but I have got close enough to see that her eyes and...
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    Chicken laid strange thing?

    I have posted a picture below of something strange I found in the coop the other morning. Im a beginner with chickens so for all I know it might be quite normal. One of my ladies was going crazy trying to eat it, its quite rubbery and kind of flesh like and looks and feels pretty weird, infact...
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    What breeds are they please

    Hi everyone, I'm a newby to everything chicken and learning lots all the time, however I am not sure which breeds I have. I know the bottom picture is my handsome and very noisy cockerel! he is under a year old and quite tame, he has black/grey legs with a few feathers on them. The first...
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