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    Flies galore

    Hi all! We have got so many flies! We used to let the girl free range o the far side of the backyard, but foxes so now they’re in a 1.8x4.5m run. Plus also the missus wanted the far side of her backyard back. Back the we did have flies, but because they were so far away it didn’t feel that...
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    Chicken Food recommendation for Melbourne, Australia? (And what are the protein requirements anyway?)

    Hi! I'm in Melbourne, Australia and have been trying to figure out what to buy to feed the chooks with... We've been giving them: https://www.petbarn.com.au/peckish-performance-poultry-layer-mix-18kg And they're pretty happy with it (even though they mostly ignore the pellets and just eat all...
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    Runny poo from chicken

    Hi! I've got 6 chooks, and one of them - a Silkie x Araucana cross - consistently gives really weird wet poos. One of my brahmas also sometimes gives a weird wet one (the middle picture with the slightly more blackish poo is hers), but most of the time it's fine... The Silkie x Araucana...
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    Do I clip just one chook's wings? Or all of them?

    Hi! I've got 6 chooks, and turns one of them - the tiny feisty bantam - has been flying over a 2m fence to the neighbours' backyard... The other 5 haven't exhibited such behaviours. That we know of... So we've decided to clip one of the bantam's wings. Should I clip the other chooks' wings...
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    Chooks have been digging up a garden bed, how long before it's ok for vegetables?

    Hi all! We've had a terribly overgrown garden bed that we let the chooks into to clean it up. Went from to So that's good. But as expected, they'd have also been pooping into it, etc. What I'm intending to do now is to put ~1m3 of veggie bed soil into it, let it sit for about a...
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    Intro post

    Hi All! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Used to run around with my grandparents' urban chooks in Asia, now gotten some of our own about 8 weeks ago (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 6 Chooks (3) What breeds do you have? Lavender Araucana Australorp...
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