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    When is the right age to potentially sell baby roosters?

    Hello, We have a mama hen and chicks and it seems three of the chicks are roosters. I am planning to post them online to see if anyone is keen to take them, but I'm not sure how old they would need to be to leave their Mum and move to a new flock. Currently they are around 5/6 weeks old and...
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    Ideas on gender?

    Hello, I have some bantam chicks who are roughly 4/5 weeks old. I have been studying them and feeling fairly confident about my theories about their sex, until I noticed one of the ones I thought was a hen seems to have extra toes at the back which I guess might be a spur??? I've numbered...
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    Chickens sunbathing all day :)

    I spent so much time putting a fence in the garden to keep the hen and her chicks in... Pulled out plants that weren't safe, got it all ready... Since I started letting them out of the coop in the weekend they have literally not gone two metres from the coop, and most of the time they just go...
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    So happy with how chickens are going :)

    I got chickens last Thursday; a hen and her seven chicks. When I picked them up the girl had lots of chickens in not the best conditions and they were in a cage less than 1m x 1m inside a farm shed. For the last nine days they have been in the coop/shed which is 4mx2m and they seem really...
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    Run advice to contain bantam hen and chicks

    Ok so my garden is super overgrown. On the left is deer fencing to about 6 feet high, on the right is a retaining wall which is about 5 feet high. The deer fencing has the bottom 50cm lined with a finer wire mesh. Behind the tree at the end there is another fence, wooden about maybe 5 feet...
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    Before and after shed tidy up into coop

    Here is the after and before of my shed/coop clean up. It's about 90% done now with some small areas that need further proofing just incase there are rats around. I have a step on feeder and bigger water container for when they get bigger. It's nothing fancy and done on a budget. We have...
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    Getting bantam hen with two week old chicks

    Hi, My Orpington pullet dreams have fallen through and instead I am now getting a mum hen and her two week old chicks (looks to be about 7 of them). The hen is a crossbreed bantam, black with a browny head, not especially fluffy, just a regular looking chicken. Anyhow, I'm in the process of...
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    Coop plans ok?

    Hi, I have a shed that was already on the property when we bought it which I think was previously used as a coop which I am revamping in preparation for 4 Orpington pullets which we will pick up next weekend. The coops is about 2m x 4m, and has 2 wooden walls and 2 wire walls. I have been...
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    New Member

    Hello :) (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had a few pet bantams as I child and I loved them, but I am new to chickens as an adult. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? None but have three black/blue Orpington pullets to pick up in a few weeks. (3)...
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