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  1. thewhyblockl

    One dead, one sick! help!

    My lovely chicken is really sick and I have no idea what to do. I have called all up and down the coast (West Coast NZ, small population) for a vet, but no one handles chickens and I have been told to wait until she dies and send her into Christchurch for an autopsy! I find that cruel, and...
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    All my BR's broody! ;(

    Since I got rid of our big BR roo all of the BR's have gone broody one after the next. We let one go, and she just hatched out 3 sweet little fluff butts this morning ()but abandoned her remaining eggs (). We put those under the second one who went broody a week after the roo left and she is...
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    Rooster gone away, Hens gone mad!

    Oooh ye! I'm at the end of my run at the moment. I posted an add on the main trading forum here asking if any very friendly vegetarians wanted our lovely rooster, and so our dear Xerox went to a new home and a bunch of love starved hens. He seemed pretty happy with the arrangement...but our...
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    Hens' point of lay mid-winter (NZ)??

    My BR hens are just turning 23 weeks old at the end of this week. It is mid June, so it is also mid-winter here in New Zealand. What will happen with the first lay? Will it be postponed until spring (September?) That's 10 more weeks. Can they really hold off that long? And what if the...
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    Big bloody rip in comb!

    My BR rooster has a big bloody rip in his comb after somehow getting it stuck in the chicken wire and ripping free (though we didn't witness this, we found a spot on the wire with some blood on it). It is a rip at the back of the comb from the base of his head up towards the tips where it is...
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    Let the little ones into the run?

    Hi. I have an adult RIRxBR and 6 8 1/2 week old BR's in a large run (30'x23'), and inside the run I have a brooder and mini-run with 6 4 week old BR's in it. The babies are very feisty...little bandits actually. They are well feathered and already ganging up and regularly mugging the hand...
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