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  1. Dowie

    Soft shell eggs elderly hen

    We have a chook we THINK is elderly - we were given her by an animal shelter after they'd raided a chicken hoarder's house (the lady had 50 chooks in one small backyard). So, we don't know her age exactly, but she seems old. At the start she laid us some eggs, but now they are either soft...
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    Things you would miss about chickens

    I'm travelling for three months, and have yet to see one chicken. I'm missing my chickens like mad. What I miss most about them is their Egg Dramas. We always have a broody, and she's always stealing the other girls eggs. The screaming and hollering and indignation could not be matched by...
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    International Head Poof and Cheek Floof awareness day for silkies!

    I posted this story in another thread, and realised it's actually kinda important to pass on as widely as I can. My silkie Button nearly drowned because she was so blind from her big hairy head puff and cheek floofs. We had a minor flood in our backyard, and I ran outside because I'd read...
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    Mystery solved - why my hens suddenly started laying again in Winter....

    It must have been that time I wandered around the backyard with the axe? I'm afraid I don't know where this cartoon comes from, if anyone knows, do tell!
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    We sure done got fooled!

    This is Foxy. She is called Foxy because she survived a fox attack when she was only one month old. As you can see from this photo, taken a couple of weeks ago, she is fairly mature. We have watched her for months. But no eggs! NO EGGS. No eggs ANYWHERE. Instead she spent her days flying...
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    The boy's in love!!???

    Meet Sooty, my bantam x Aracauna rooster. Sooty and his love, Lucy Rose, have been joined at the wing a little too closely of late. She has some severe damage to her shoulders from his excess attention, and we've had to seperate her until her new 'apron' arrives. We're also introducing...
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    Introducing a new breed - the 'Derpington'

    Right, well, Derperella is pretty famous on this site. I tell my DH about Derp's adventures, ie. squealing with excitement when Derp laid her first egg (on another chicken, of course). So, the DH I THOUGHT knew about Derp. Tonight I was showing him a picture of Derp and saying how much I'd...
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    I will always miss my little girls R.I.P. Dowie and Leia

    These two girls were the funniest, strangest and most endearing pets I've ever had. I never thought a chicken would wiggle its way into my heart, but these girls did. They were pekins, and they were both so dear to me. They were glued together at the feathery hip, and would roam the lawn...
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    World's most useless rooster

    This is Sooty. He looks so sweet, so innocent don't he? That's because HE IS! Sooty's only successful functioning as a rooster so far has been to mate with the laaaadieeeez. He does not: Sort out pecking order problems OR Warn me about the dratted egg eating raven that keeps pinching...
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    Why are big chickens such JERKS?

    My big chickens are the biggest jerks ever. They broke into the bantam pen while I was out. When I got home I couldn't find them - finally one of them came waddling towards me. Half of her beautiful tail feathers had been torn out. Now these giant jerk chickens are free range. They roam...
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    How much do Silkies lay?

    I want silkies! They are so cute - but are they pitiful on the egg laying front? I have two bantam cochins (pekins here in australia) and they only lay three months a year! Pathetic.
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    Is it wrong to kiss your chicken?

    Today I was holding my little pekin hen, Leia. She is so sweet, like a fat feathery cushion: I've taught her to perch on my wrist and I caught myself nearly kissing her on the neck! What has happened to me? I have been corrupted!
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    Help! Hens mounting my little hens!

    Ok, I tried on the 'chicken behaviours thread', but got no response, I'm relying on you, the regulars of this thread. I have three big hens, two little hens, and one bantam rooster. Whenever I let the big hens near the little hens, they mount them just like the rooster does. It's awful, one...
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    Hens acting like roosters!

    I have a VERY mixed flock - two bantam cochin hens, two large ISA brown hens, one HUGE rhode island white hen, and a funny little bantam araucana rooster. Needless to say, my little bantam rooster (who I accepted because otherwise his head was for the block - I am such a sucker :rolleyes) is...
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    My boyfriend on silkies...

    I'm trying to convince him we need silkies. I showed him some photos. His response: "Furry alien mushrooms with legs". I think that's why I love them so much!
  16. Dowie

    My first beauty treatment

    Mah name is Princess Layer, and I have been told I am extremely beautiful. However, because of the wondrous number of feathers in my fine bustle, which have an unfortunate habit of retaining my poop, my ma decided I needed a bath. After the bath, she allowed me to peruse the strange...
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    Addicted to BYC forum...and chickens

    Ho-hum, working from home today. I'll just turn on the computer to take a peek at BYC 'Stories and pictures of your chickens' section, oh it's my favourite! Click, scroll, that chicken is sooooooooooo cute! Click, search for updates on the adventures of Barbara...oh, she's a good writer that...
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    A fox is to a chicken, as a chicken is to a vegetable patch!

    sooo....we caged off the cabbage patch (it's winter here). All was going well. Then the red hens broke in, busted up the place pretty good, scratched the heck out of everything. Scorched earth policy, I s'pose. Then we got serious, put in a SECOND defence of chicken wire. I get home to find...
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    Tylan for sinusitis? Two months sick now

    My poor little chookie has had a sinus infection for TWO MONTHS now. One other chicken got sick for a day and a half and was fine - none of the others in the flock got sick. I have tried everything. I'm about a week off culling her. I have steamed her, squeezed the pus out of her nose, tried...
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    chloramphenicol for sinusitis? chicken is dying!

    Hi my chicken has had a sinus infection for FOUR MONTHS now. She has been treated with baytril and doxycycline. She's 'ok', but still has a big puffy sinus and bubbly eye. I just got a script for a human eye drop treatment for me (I don't need it now) - the chemical name is chloramphenicol...
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