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    Breaking a broody hen in the heat

    Hi Folks, One of my d'Uccles has been broody since Christmas. I've kept her in my "broody breaker" cage since then, letting her out each day in the hope it's over, and putting her back in the cage when she returns to the nest (usually immediately). Problem is it's hot hot hot here (42°C/108°F...
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    Easter egger with barred gene

    Hi Folks, I'm after some advice please. I have 7x 2-week old chicks hatched from bought Easter Egger eggs & happily co-parented by 2 d'Uccle broodies. The father is an Australian Araucana roo (pure white from 2 lavender parents). 3 of the chicks hatched from Cuckoo Marans eggs. Given...
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    Downsizing mixed flock

    I was lucky enough to have a very successful hatch this year with all 9 of my chicks turning out to be pullets, and am now faced with downsizing. My flock is mixed and the birds I've decided to sell are a LF barnevelder, a bantam rock, and a d'Uccle. These pullets were raised together but are...
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    Broody d'uccle laid an egg

    Hi, My 26 week old mottled d'Uccle has gone broody (on nest 24 hours, making trilling noise when anyone disturbs her, fluffed up, pecks me, and when I put her on the ground she stays fluffed up). I put her in cage to break her around 4pm Monday, intending to take her out after 48 hours (was told...
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    Follow up worming - is late ok?

    I wormed my pullets with Kilverm (levamisole) in their drinking water on 7 January, and set a reminder to give them a follow up dose 2 weeks later as recommended. Unfortunately when the 2 weeks came around we were in the middle of a heat wave and instructions on bottle indicated not to give in...
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    First egg surprise - who laid this?

    On Monday I went to feed my girls some scratch and checked their nest box, actually saying to them "I don't know why I'm doing this, I'm not expecting you to lay yet", but there it was, a teeny tiny bantam pullet egg!!!!! :celebrateTotal weight a "whopping" 16g (half an ounce). Yesterday (5 days...
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    Observing flock dynamics

    I have 8 pullets around 16wks old of mixed breeds (mainly bantams). For some time I presumed my first hatched LF barnevelder or my bantam light Sussex were my alpha and beta birds, though I wasn't sure who was on top. I've seen quite a few standoffs between these two as they grew up together...
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    Sexing 15wo barnevelder

    Opinions please - is this a pullet or cockeral? I hatched her/him using an incubator 15 weeks ago. Eggs were from seller's "blue" barnevelder pen (presume this one has thrown back to standard double-laced - am new to barnevelders and limited chicken experience overall). I hatched 3 of 6 standard...
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    Newbie from Australia

    Hi Folks, I'm new to this site, but find forums like this to be a fabulous resource for learning from the experience of others, so to anyone one who takes the time to answer any questions I might have, thanks in advance! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We had...
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