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    Serama, Dutch, oeg bantam?

    I got this bantam from the RSPCA about a year ago, she was found as a stray and I was asked if I would take her in, so I did. All this time I've been thinking she was a serama, but now I'm not so sure. She's super friendly, likes to peck at feet and will sit on my arm hapily, she's a good layer...
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    New coop design help Please

    Hi all, Ive decided its time to make a new coop for my little flock. Their current coop was bodged together from pallets and T and G and is not the easiest thing thing to clean, and is a little on the small side. Its just an ugly cube with doors on the back. This time im going for the classic...
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    Brahma bantam hen

    A beautiful and friendly brahama bantam hen. brought up under a chicken and has lived inside since hatching so used to dogs and rabbits. pick up only, from Plymouth, UK. any questions just send me a message.
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    worming a hen with chicks

    I've got some flubenvet to worm my chickens with, but I have a hen with a three week old chick that needs treatment. the hen won't eat anything until she's satisfied that the chick is eating first. can the chick have the wormer too?
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    day 23 with no sign of hatching

    I've got some bantam eggs under a broody hen, and they were due to hatch on monday. I candled yesterday and it was moving quite a bit, looked like the head was towards the air sack, which is now quite big, but couldn't see any internal pipping, but not sure what I'm looking for. do I put a hole...
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    do hens know when eggs are soon to hatch

    bit of an odd question I know, but do broody hens know when eggs are soon to hatch? I've got a broody on eggs which are due to hatch tomorrow and I've noticed this afternoon she's really attentive with pulling bits of straw around her, which she has been doing the whole time but she's doing it...
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    eggs 15 days under broody,

    I've got 2 (there was 6)eggs under a broody pekin bantam, I've been candling from a couple of days in. at no point have I seen any veins oranything in them.I candled the 4 she had a few days ago at day 12 and two were not fertile, so I threw them away, the other two, one is letting no light...
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    very broody hen

    So I've got my first very broody hen, she's a pekin banti in her first season of laying and up until recently she has been very good layer. We have had a big chuck go a bit broody but she gets over it pretty quick and only lasts a few days. This one however has been going over month and she's...
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    sexing 7-8 week old pekin bantams.

    we bought 2, 7-8 week old bantam chicks a few days ago and the breeder said he was pretty sure there both female. one is smaller and furthar behind developmentaly that the other but yesterday i noticed its wattles looking redder and it has a tiny comb. theres no evidence of spurs, long feathers...
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