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    Crooning and Clicking? What do these noises mean?

    We've had our hens for a few months and have gotten pretty used to their noises by now. But there are 2 noises that still have us puzzled. 1. Sometimes our chickens will make a crrrrrrrn noise while staring intently into space. At first we thought it was a predator warning, but when we check...
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    Milky poops!

    My Australorp suddenly started acting really down and quiet yesterday, kept drinking water (and pooping it out in very running poops), and while today she's gone back to eating and drinking like normal, she's now making white, watery poops like milk. She's also been off laying for a few days...
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    WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR BEAK?!

    So, I noticed this today: No idea when or how she managed it. It looks like the top layer of her beak chipped and split. She doesn't seem bothered by this and is eating and acting normally. Is this normal?? Should I do something or will it take care of itself?
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    Is my new chicken sick or just a wuss?

    I got a new chook a few days ago and I'm not sure what to make of her behaviour. We got our new Orpington, Chestnut, as a friend to our lone Australorp, Peggy. I know we're supposed to quarantine any new chickens but we quickly learnt that Chestnut, farm-raised girl that she is, came with both...
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    Wash-off spots on eggs?

    We just got a new hen the other day and yesterday she laid us an egg with dark spots on the shell. We assumed nothing out of the ordinary but when mum washed the egg the spots washed off! What were these spots? Were they blood spots? Should we be worried?
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    My First Chicken Gets Her First Friend! How do I ensure it goes smoothly?

    It's finally happening. Our Peggy is finally well enough to get another hen to keep her company. We first bought our little 7-month old Australorp a little over a month ago. As it turns out, she was in pretty bad shape; she was stressed, lice-ridden and suffering coryza*, and that was just the...
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    Is this really mash?

    So mum brought home a new bag of chicken feed claiming to be 'mash', but it kinda looks more like scratch to me. Here is the online brochure for this 'course mash': http://www.jenco.com.au/assets/downloads/16-Coarse-Layer-Mash.pdf Is this actually mash, or is it chicken scratch? How often...
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    Why is my chicken laying sacks?!

    So today my australorp hen pooped this out: Yesterday she was fine but now my Peggy is slow, quiet (she didn't even call to be let out/fed this morning!) and didn't want to leave the laying box. She had been straining all morning in the box and had barely eaten. We've coaxed her out of the...
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    HEN CROWING?! Does she think she's a rooster or what?!

    Our new hen was impatient to be let out this afternoon. We'd just let her out for a wander around the yard and she wanted to be let out again, but we thought we'd wait another hour or so. At first she was just making her typical 'let me out' noises (a sort of rrawwwk noise) and then suddenly she...
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    Of Feathers and Swarms

    Last week we got a hen. Mum brought her home. Today we got bees. They brought themselves. :barnie It had started out as such a normal morning. Peggy had been let out to peck around the lawn. Mum was reading last month's issue of Women's Weekly. I was entertaining myself with whatever youtube...
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    Lice + Coryza + Suspiciously Taciturn = ???

    We just got our first hen from what turns out was a very dodgy flock owner. We've had Peggy, a 6-month old Australorp/Barnevelder mix, for about a week and a half. She's our only current chook, seeing as we've discovered that she's got both lice and coryza and decided to postpone creating a...
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    GottaHatchAPlan Reporting to Chicken Duty!

    So, funny story. About a week and a half ago my mum goes out to market; 'I'm just going to buy some eggs!' she says. About a 3 hours later she calls my phone; 'I've bought a chook!' she says. Half an hour later I help get it home. I ask how we're supposed to look after it; 'It can't be that...
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