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    Help, my favorite pekin seems crippled.. not sure what to do

    Gretel my oldest chook has suddenly gone downhill. She seems to be limping and very unbalanced - drunk even, keeps sitting down on her bum and falling over. I think she is 4 years old.. but possibly nearly five. She has always been a very entertaining and friendly little buff and I love to...
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    Help, problem with astralorp eggs

    Hi I have a flock of 7 chooks. Two RIRs who are laying well a couple of weeks into their second season, two pekins, one of which has started laying nice little eggs..they are in their third season, a silkie/amercana bantie and two BAs who are proving to be a bit of a let down. They should be...
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    Dung out the deep litter now or later?

    I have 7 chooks in a lovely coop with a deep litter floor. As we are at the beginning of autumn here several of the chooks have started their molt and the coop is awash with feathers. As you know with deep litter you don't really clean it out that often but allow it to build up and insulate...
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    Help - How to get the chickens to use the nipples!

    So a couple of weeks ago, I finally sourced some nipples to put in the bottom of a bucket to water the chooks. After some diy of which i was very proud I installed the waterer in their run and tapped their beaks against them as instructed by some people here to teach them how to use it. I have...
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    So I tried the pepper thingy

    the other day I was trawling for ideas on how to get my BA's to start laying again. they are just coming up 1 year old and only started when they were 9 months but both had stopped for several weeks and one also went broody for a couple of weeks. I found the thread on feeding black pepper. Some...
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    Will my Australorps squat?

    I have two black Australorps hatched in March. They are still not laying but I am sure one of them is trying to find a nest to lay in, she has been skulking off on her own today, peeking in the nestboxes in the coop and squeezing under bushes and hiding in odd places in the garden. But she...
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    Introducing a new feral chicken - photo's added

    I have kind of inherited a very gorgeous little chicken that had been living on its own at a local old folks home. My mum works there, she said it turned up as a chick and no one was ever able to catch it.. I'm not sure what she is but my best guess is a silkie crossed with a black australorp...
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    What do you get if you cross..

    just for my curiosity- what would I get if my cuckoo pekin bantie was allowed to hatch her eggs? This morning I witnessed the big Black Australorp having his wicked way with her - not very romantic!- but just want to know what kind of mixture i would get? a middle sized chook or banties or...
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    I know its the perennial question but..?

    Is there any way to kickstart laying? My Lois has been laying for a week. Lovely eggs around 55-60g with a deep orange yolk. After waiting sooooo long and finally getting one of them laying, now I just want to get the others going! Lois and Eunice are RIRs nearly 9 months old - they were...
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    The case of the mysterious disappearing chicken

    lois is missing. I haven't seen her at all today, my husband let all the chooks out this morning and fed them but I have only had 7 following me around while I did my outside chores today. She is around 30weeks RIR, and we have been anticipating an egg from her soon as she has just started...
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    Could my eggs be fertile?

    I cracked 3 little pekin eggs into the pan to make scrambled eggs for lunch today, and one of them looked like pictures I have seen of fertile eggs with the wee halo around the spot. It was Polly, my top chook's egg. They are running with two teenage (12wk) light sussex cockerals which my...
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    Kia Ora, Hi I'm Adele from New Zealand

    Hi, just saying hello, I am from New Zealand where it is getting very hot. I have 2 Pekin bantams, Polly, a cuckoo and Gretel a buff, who are currently raising four week old chicks three Light Sussex and two Rhode Island Red. Here is a video of them. I am wondering if anyone can help me...
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