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    Adult game breed hen intermittently star gazing

    I have an adult hen ,I got her about 6 months back she is a game type breed fit and very flighty ,shes started star gazing episodes two days ago .Its not permanently it happens in bouts ,usually short ones .In between shes eating very well ,though she is drinking a bit ,she struggles with...
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    Olive egger, hybrid layer 'x

    I have a cuckoo Marans ,crested cream legbar olive egger cockeral ,I bought him some extra hens for company. 4 brown ex laying flock hens which are probably random hybrid layers .But two lay really pretty eggs ,one lays eggs aa dark as my cuckoo marans did.Another lays a pinky brown that...
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    How do I keep hold of my chicken to clean its butt ,when I cant barely catch it

    I need to clean ,one of my cockerals rear end but I am not sure how .I have a lot of cockerals and I manage those fine ,even the Jersey Giant .But I have an absolutely barmy cockeral ,(called Batty) ,its hard to get within a foot of him and he flaps and twists and screams as though hes...
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    Mystery chickens excellent at flying

    Hi ,I bought these two as random hens to keep a bachelor cockeral company (they decided they didnt like him and flew out of his run ) They are from a flock of birds that looked the same so I think maybe they are breed rejects .They are really good at flying they cleared a 6ft fence by several...
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    Mycoplasma management

    I think its possible I have a cockeral with M G ,its been not quite well for around a week but hes been moulting and looked pretty ragged ,most of my flock are moulting and looked pretty miserable when the weather turned bad, he wasnt looking like he had an actual disease,hes been eating and I...
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    Strange eyes

    One of my fairly new silkies has very strange eyes ,its fit and healthy but I wondered if it was something to worry about
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    Could a cemani rooster be this chicks father ?

    I have a pair of mystery chicks from our last broodys, I could ID most of their chicks but there were three black ones ,one was all black and definitely looks like a cemani at the time the hen was in with a cemani "pullet " that had turned out to be a cockeral ,but this chick is a few weeks...
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    hatching egg

    A hen abandoned the nest and left behind one egg ,when I went to remove it I noticed it had a slight chip so I held it and noticed it started peeping,so we brought it inside and took turns holding it until it hatched ,it took around 7 hours.We held it in our hands first then in a napkin once it...
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    Hello and thanks

    Hello, Thank you for allowing me to join the group ,I live in the far north of Scotland and I have around 50 chickens at the moment because I had some hens go broody and they all succesfully hatched chicks. But I normally have around two dozen .I keep rare breeds Hamburg's ,Scots Greys, a...
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