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    Escaped broody!

    I had a hen vanish last week at lockdown time and presumed she was taken by the fox. But no, she turned up next day and I penned her up while I went to work. She vanished again as soon as she was free and that's when I suspected what was up. I spotted her again this evening - ravenously hungry...
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    Has a fox ever got into your chicken food?

    I keep my chicken food in a big plastic bin with clips on either side next to the chicken house. About a week ago, something got one of the clips off and got inside, tearing a hole in a (brand new) 20 kilo bag of layer's pellets and a (brand new) bag of cracked corn 😡. A little damage, a little...
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    Kent/Sussex UK: two handsome bantam Poland cockerels

    I'm trying to find (free!) homes for these two boys on the South coast. They're 16 weeks old. The one on the right has just started crowing. I know the WC cuckoo on the left looks like a girl, but he's got wattles and sickle feathers and I'm pret-ty sure he's a boy. The WC blue has been twice...
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    How do you pet a chicken?

    I keep a small flock of bantams very much as pets. I've always bought birds at about six weeks old, when they can be reliably sexed. They grow up friendly and pick-up-able but not, you know, lap chickens. This year for the first time I hatched a group in an incubator and they spent their first...
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    Subdued nine-week-old poland

    I have seven nine-week-olds, apparently in robust health so far. Today, one is subdued. I kept finding him sitting in the grass some feet from the others, facing away. Tonight, when they all went to bed, he was still sitting in the grass. I've picked him up and examined him several times. No...
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    Polands: help identify sex and color, please

    I bought six Ebay Poland bantam eggs, unknown colors. I could use help working out the colors and especially the genders. I'm lost! I've waited patiently before asking (ha!), but they're a full two months old today. All hatched within 24 hours of each other. Here's G and Albert. Look at those...
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    Poland owners: should I preemptively treat for cocci?

    I'm new to polands. I have six five-week old bantams, just starting to come off of medicated chick crumb. Someone on a Facebook poland group frightened me by saying polands are famously susceptible to cocci and she just goes ahead and treats them with Coxoid regardless. (In fact, the whole...
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    Greetings from the English Channel

    Hello, chicken peeps! I'm an American living in Britain. I've kept pekin bantams (are they called cochins in the States? The little ones with the feathery feet) for ten years. I've always wanted Poland bantams (believe they're called Polish in the States - the ones with the gigantic feathery...
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