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    Misshapen eggs - ridges

    Hi guys, All is well with our flock of ex-bats who we adopted a few months ago. They're healthy, well-feathered and laying like champions. No one has any symptoms that I can speak of but one of the girls is laying some funky looking eggs with very pronounced ridges along them. Has...
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    Ex battery hens not laying

    Hi everyone. After years of wanting them, we finally have chickens! We adopted 8 ex-battery hens last weekend and they seem to be in generally good health. They're foraging happily, eating and drinking well, and their combs are coming up much brighter. The one problem is that they've gone almost...
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    Ex-battery hens, Hull, East Yorkshire

    I'm looking to buy a few hens for my back garden and would like to rescue some ex-bats. I am aware of organisations like the BHWT but there aren't any rescue dates imminent and I'd like to be able to get hold of them asap. I dropped in at Smith's Hatchery on the way to Hedon yesterday and they...
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    Hatch an egg in a hurry

    I am currently in possession of a fertile chicken egg and would like to try to hatch it rather than eat it. I can't afford an incubator after buying a car last week - the last of my spare money is going on insurance - so I need a solution that won't cost me anything, if that's possible. If...
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    Scaly leg mite in aviary flock

    Hi, I've been visiting the aviary at a local park for the last few days to see the chickens they keep there. Today I got a good look at them close-up as I'd taken a bag of feed with me. I noticed that some of the chickens have very unpleasant-looking feet and legs and suspected it might be...
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    New member from Yorkshire

    Hello everyone, I'm being good and introducing myself just as I was told to (that doesn't happen very often, so count yourselves lucky!) I've never kept chickens but since I saw an interview on the BBC about enriched cages a few months ago, I've fallen in love with the idea of having chickens...
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