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    broody with hens ontop

    i have a broody and she is new to it a bramah, shes perfect sitting all day up 1 time clucking eat drink dust bath back on the eggs. my other hens want her nest spot as its the fave, she wotn stop sitting on her and stressing her, but i dont want to remove her from the flock as reintergration...
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    1 chicken rubber eggs each day

    out of 10 chickens all healthy 1 keeps laying a soft rubbery egg by the time i open to coop, and also a soft shelled egg with a long top sometimes, strange thing is i have 9 girls and i am getting 1 rubber egg in the morning 9 normal eggs in the day and a weak shelled egg extra every odd day...
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    hydrated lime bnq for white wash

    so i dont wana burn them but is says on here use hydrated lime for white washing coops and fence, so i type it and ti comes up with bnq hydrated lime for building, which we call quick lime, and on here says quick lime will burn them ?
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    bramahs sexing are these girls?

    i have 15 and i hope these 2 are girls, they have double feathers unlike the males under the wing there pale combs , but they turn red when food hunting or scared doesnt seem to have wattles like the other boy, heres the pics the defo male is in the coop these are my 2 hope to be girls to go in...
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    is vent gleet mareks?

    looking to treat vent gleet the welfare trust says to test for mareks if you have gleet and have a cockerel? as they say it could be herpes? my cockerel died, he was old, think he got brain damage after a cat intruder freaked him out, he hit the roof, he eldest girl just passed too she was...
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    chicken run on another level!

    currrently i have 2 runs 2 coops, next to each other, mesh between so they all see eachother, i have my main flock, and i have my 10weekers in the other, there starting to sex out, and there a big bramaha breed, i want to release girls in my main pen, and keep boys for food at xmas or just...
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    age to butcher bramahs?? really 10 week?

    my bramahs as 8 week old, and the roos are being good exept 1 the big one id love to eat him full size but he is a bully bird , so i check the age to slaughter online and i found this .. '' Are Brahma chickens good for meat? The Brahma is a large bird, producing a lot of flavorful, tender...
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    2 mums make a cockfight

    got ya attention , so 2 hens both brooders, 1 has 6 week babys and the other has 2 weeks. problem begins when mum 2 calls her babys. mum 1 gets angry and attacks her, so do i remove the mum and 6 weeks from the (seperate )brooder and put them with the flock on the pirches?as there 6 weeks or...
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    is geraniol safe for chickes?

    i have some antiforte mite stop for chickens its 30ml per l geraniol and lemon eucalipotus, it says to spray direct on the girls but it smells bloody strong ? will they be ok and will the chicks be ok? i know how effective geraniol can be! but is it ok on chicks? i cant get elector psp in the uk...
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    chicken lice ? no elector avalible uk?

    cant buy any spinosad for the uk? i could last year... what can i use for chicken lice? that works ?
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    Chicken gasping

    She is gasping like it’s a hot day or she has somthing stuck in her throat like sawdust Her crop feels empty like she hasn’t been eating but she will peck at grains ferments etc still and drink There is no smell but she wheezes if I am holding her I can’t get a still listen as she freaks out...
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    Mums legs bend?

    Chicks are fine mum seems happy. Mum bends her legs inwards like to make an arch and calls chicks in it’s like she sits on her bum for them looks strange she only seems to do it when she wants them to get under her lol Just looks odd seeing a chicken sit in its arse with legs curling There not...
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    Chick week old outside?

    Mummy hen took them out day 3 and now they are a week old and think they are full grown chicks They cheep continuously scratch peck the lot but she won’t sit on them much only at night or 10min an hour , There eating and drinking but I think they go quiet when she does sit on them It’s 13c...
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    old chicken recipie/ or help with what to add for them,

    pre 20th cent chickens did well on meat , scraps and carcasses, being the garbage warriors they clean up what the find, siince reading stuff on here ive been throwing them an animal carcass to find them happy content , no fighting, quiet, nothing bad there happy as, they stil want the green...
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    Cornish cock Indian game x light sussex sex link??

    My cock ig has chicks with my ls hen and I can’t find if there is any sex link but it says pure breeds make sex link so how will I tell?
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    UK Best organic food for mixed flock? 19% protein?

    I can’t find a single feed in the uk that is organic and/or even soy free that has more than 15 protein it seems even non organic is only 15 the layers get 18 but I don’t want the calcium in the mix as have cocks I want all flock but can’t find it I’ve even checked goose n duck feeds any uk...
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    Feeding with baby’s and cocks

    My hens is hatching eggs in 4days and my cock is proud and commanded it so she will reintroduce them to the flock when she is ready However feed,,,,, what do I do as it said to get all chickens on chick feed but that’s expensive as hella I found this...
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    Sussex bulge rear end

    Few years ago I got 10 sussex chickens 1had a bulge on the rear really big and soft didn’t appear Poorly just u slightly could just notice her feathers lower than the rest , gave her to a chicken vet to keep , Now my girls I kept have been flawless , there fine healthy flighty eating mating the...
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    2 roosters with hens?

    i have had chickens 10 years now, and i have a old rescue rooster who was rescued from wild being tormented, had him 5 years, he is a scardey cat, runs from us all the time, but if ya get hold of him he burys his head in ya, he knows ur ok aslong as ya slow, but cant wait to get away , he gets...
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    Bird died again

    Got another out of the blue dead same as my other posts Thistime we got her to the vet and she died with the vet he said she has fluid in the lung and can’t swallow antibiotics he said it’s a lung or heart bacterial infection spread by wild birds and to make sure there vaccinated at birth...
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