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  1. akaxo

    christchurch longdrop competition

    so with our recent earthquake induced problems of a reduction in basic services the need for backyard longdrops has arisen all over the city. it didn't take long for a website to pop up that allows people to post photos and show off their creations. there's some great ones on there! as i'm sure...
  2. akaxo

    blanche, you ridiculous ridiculous little silkie!!

    little blanche is our wee silkie who went all broody and got three game bantam babies to look after. she got a little house all to herself and is being an awesome mother. anyway, we did a decorating on her house and it ended up looking like this: quite pleased with myself i was a few days...
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    spot the odd one out!

    i saw this in the backyard and after a song from some programme i remember as a kid, "one of these things is not like the other..." (electric company??) i ran inside to get the camera. she was getting in the garden everyday for a couple of weeks before i worked out how. she'd been jumping up...
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    our game bantam babies

    when the fertile eggs we got our broody girls didn't all hatch (i'm guessing they weren't fertile at all) we got some babies from a local animal park. the place specialises on old breeds of all sorts of farm animals. all i was told about these was they were game bantams, i saw one of the...
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    two girls co-parenting one chick...

    both of the two girls in the picture below went broody at about the same time so i got them half a dozen fertile eggs and put them under them in separate nesting boxes. all went well until about hatching time when only the one hatched, it appears four of the other eggs weren't fertilized after...
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    just got the coolest salt n pepper shakers (had to share)

    it was in a box at the front door this morning got it from a local auction website. had to share it's awesomeness as no one i know here in christchurch will appreciate it haha. it's now sitting on the shelves i put in our sunroom to fill up with chicken ornaments... that is all. oh, merry...
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    baby with bald bits??

    it hatched like this and is over two weeks old now and has no feather growth at all on the bald bits. they're on both sides of the neck. makes the poor wee thing look a bit mangy but other than that doesn't seem to bother it at all. just wondering if it's anything i should be worried about and...
  8. akaxo

    introducing all my girls...

    my lovely fiancée is working late so thought i'd waste some time by posting some pics first up is cheeky vera who things she should be a house chicken and runs inside and jumps up on the couch every chance she gets. which isn't very often now since i built a gate to keep her away from the...
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    amazing photo of flamingos in formation, wildlife artists?

    had to share this with everyone here after getting this pointed out to me. thought some of you would appreciate this. Flamingos have many extraordinary qualities, but until now they have never been considered to be performance artists. Now, thanks to this amazing aerial photograph of a flock...
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    first babies ever, not really sure what i'm doing... (pics)

    so we had a silkie who was pretty set on staying broody a while ago. no matter how much i tried to convince her otherwise she was determined to hatch some old peach stones under our peach tree. to cut a long story short, she ended up winning that battle so i conceded and bought her some fertile...
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    naughty chicken used my email!!!

    so i came home this afternoon and checked my emails and this was in the sent folder. i think miss vera is getting a bit too clever for her own good there was a competition mentioned on a breakfast tv show (imaginatively called "breakfast") this morning here for a 50th anniversary special book...
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    another one gone broody??

    went to check for eggs the other day and found this keeping them warm... there was another one under him too. he wasn't too impressed when i moved him and took the eggs away either. nearly as silly as the wee silkie who spent three days doing her best to hatch some old peach stones under the...
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    vera just laid something very odd, any ideas what??

    when i first saw it i just assumed it was an egg with a soft shell but when i picked it up it felt solid though softish to the touch, kind of like rubber maybe. and on the inside didn't look egg like to me at all. the outside did sort of look like a soft shell in parts but the inside? hard...
  14. akaxo

    what gender am i??

    advertised for sale near me as "a random chicken", breed and gender unknown. this is the best of the two photos posted on the auction forum. was born mid february. i'm pretty keen on buying it as the double comb looks cool imo. not allowed roosters though. any help would be greatly appreciated...
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    molting question - middle of winter??

    i've done a bit of research on molting before posting this and it all seem to say they molt at the end of summer generally? one of our girls appears to be starting to molt. she's losing feathers from all over her over the last day or two. she seems pretty healthy though have just had a bit of a...
  16. akaxo

    worried about one of my girls :( - update with vets verdict

    she's an ex-battery farm rescue, about two years old i'm guessing. normally so full of life and in your face friendly. since this morning (currently just after 1:30pm here) she's been slow moving, looks all puffy, her neck is all squat so her head is close to her body and even refusing some of...
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    i think she has an extra toe?? (with pics)

    so this is cankles (my girlfriend named her that because her legs are way thicker than the others), she's about six months old now. i have no idea what breed she is, we were told she was a bantam cross and that's it. anyway she appears to have an extra toe on one foot at the back. sorry i...
  18. akaxo

    raw fish heads...

    so one of our cats got hold of a decent sized fish head today and i just went outside to see that he'd taken it out the back and then been chased off it by one of the chickens. Vera (the chicken) was having a great old time with it, throwing it around and pulling bits off (unfortunately my...
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    girls skinny and not gaining weight

    so i'm new to keeping chickens and BYC and have a quick question that's been bothering me for a while and have searched extensively on here but found nothing so sorry if i'm repeating something obvious. have had two ex-battery hens at home for a few months now and while their condition has...
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