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    Fox Problem :( - advise

    I've got a bit of a fox problem :( my set up currently is a large chicken house in an enclosed concrete pen that is protected and secure, but recently when i let my hens out to free range in the garden Mr Fox will appear within the hour and tries to take them. It happened the first time around 2...
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    Wheezing Cockerel

    Hi there, my cockerel has started wheezing in the mornings when I let my chickens out of there house. He's fine in himself and still dancing for the hens etc and by the afternoon the wheezing has gone. He is an older gentleman 5-6years old. I don't know if I should be worried or if its just a...
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    Pullet or Rooster??

    i hatched out my own chicks for the first time a few weeks ago. 4 out of 5 have homes and this is the one I intended to keep. He/she is 2 1/2 weeks old and I was convinced she was a pullet but now I'm not sure as she's the first to develop a comb, Is it still to early to tell?? He dad is a...
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    Two Broody Hens but still laying eggs?

    I have two broody hens, always the same two my Buff Orpington and Rhode Rock. They always go broody the same day together, this is there second time in two months. I only have one broody cage so I have put one in there two days ago and will do the other one in there the day after tomorrow, but...
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    Splayed leg

    my chicks hatches late last night and early this morning. My cream crested legbar chick seems to have a splayed leg that she's just sticking out behind her. I've used the rubber band a straw method to brace it with her other one but now she's just poking both of them out behind her... she seems...
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    Oops.

    My Chicks are due to hatch tomorrow, 6 out of 7 made it to this stage and they have already started to pip out the shells. Tho I have just realized that I forgot to put the anti slip mat in 2 days ago for lock down (Its conveniently still in its packet on the post rack). Will they be okay? am I...
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    Cream Legbar Hybrids

    I have a 5 year old Cream Legbar Cockerel and he is out with assorted female hens. I've just put two Barnevelder eggs in my incubator which I've candled on day 10 and there is life :D so there's still some good in the ol'boy yet, but I am so excited to see what they will look like, I'm also...
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    Broody Hens and what to do?

    I'm very new to chickens, I'm now going into my 3rd month of having them and it really has been the best thing i have ever done! However I'm not daft enough to not notice that two of my hens have hunkered down to nest. One, my Buff Orpington (Notorious for this behavior as i have learnt) has...
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