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    Help, Last chick not making an effort?

    Long story short.. We set some Orpington eggs under our Orpy hen on the 21st of October, Ended up with only 4 viable eggs by day 13 when I last candled them, Which was a bit guttering, We thought they had all hatched yesterday, Which was the 21st here. I just went out to tidy up her nest and...
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    What to do about my rooster?

    Long story short, I got my blue orp roo when he was 5 weeks old and raised him myself at the start of this year, I thought I was doing everything right, I didn't plan on keeping him but we ended up falling inlove with him so we couldn't let him go, We brought him 3 girlfriends and they all live...
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    I caught my pullet moving an egg (video)

    Yesterday I put in a third nesting box because three girls sharing one nesting box is difficult (They won't use any of the others ), Two of them squeezed in together yesterday to lay at the same time so I thought I would put in another to see if they would use it. Then I put the eggs that were...
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    Opinions on my Orpington cockerel?

    I'm new to Orpingtons and my cockerel Pete was my first addition, He was given to me at 5 weeks old once they realized he was a roo, Hes now 6 months. Today I decided to see what poultry shows were coming up and found there is an A&P just up the road from me in October with dirt cheap entry fees...
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    Do people have a right to complain during the day??

    We had someone from the council turn up today and told me I had to get rid of my cockerel, We live in a rural suburb but in a residential area of it. There are no by laws against having roosters here UNLESS they are a nuisance, I respect that completely and if he was waking people up in the...
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    My chicken left me a surprise

    My eldest (8 months) girl had been sitting on the highest perch on and off all day. I had a bad feeling she wanted to lay from there so I kept picking her up and moving her into the nest box instead. She wouldn't have a bar of it though and would leave the coop to hang with the flock, Then next...
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    Changing feed, Opinions?

    I have a small flock of 4, A 19 week cockerel, A 29 week pullet and two 13 week pullets, All are Orpingtons. We are currently feeding wheat and growers pellets as no one is laying yet. The youngest still need growers but the oldest needs something to prepare for laying, I also read somewhere...
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    Not urgent but wattles and comb going pale?

    When I went to close up the coop for the night I noticed my 4 month old cockerels wattles and comb were pale, Well his entire face actually. He has no symptoms of anything and all the girls seemed fine, He was normal and bright red all day and ate plenty, Not sure how much he drank today but I...
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    Feel a lot better about my chooks and quakes now!

    As I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, I am sure its common knowledge what's been happening with our shaky ground in the past 9 months. Anyway, I started having backyard chickens in March this year, So it was after the big earthquakes and its always been a bit worrying for me about what will...
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    Two new additions

    Picked up our new pullets today, They're Orpingtons and around 13 weeks old, They're very sweet and I am enjoying them already! I picked one up while I was kneeling on the ground and the other jumped on top and put her head into my neck and started drifting off. Brings our flock total to four...
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    Ideas please, Windows

    My coop is a converted shed and both my chooks love roosting on the window sill, One of the glass windows are still there but the other I can't even remember what happened to it but the window hasn't been in for a very long time. We put hardware cloth over it and left it at that because it...
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    My chickens and their new setup *pics*

    After my rescued cockerel outgrew his hutch, We converted the garden shed into a coop. Its nothing flash but its become quite a cozy little coop. On the first of this month we went and picked up our new pullet, A Black Orpington, 5 months old. Not laying yet (Kind of a good thing, We havn't...
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    Desperate times call for desperate measures

    My 10 week Blue Orpington has been living in an old rabbit hutch since we rescued him at 7 weeks but we have had a lot of rain lately and getting a lot more. It has been leaking a bit in the box despite being well covered, Plus he is growing like wild fire and getting a bit cramped in the hutch...
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    Hello from New Zealand!

    I just joined (finally) and thought I should introduce myself, I'm from Christchurch, New Zealand, And two weeks ago I rescued a 7 week blue orpington roo after not having chickens in 12 years. When I moved off my farm having backyard chooks never even crossed my mind until I came across this...
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