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    My rooster is losing his feathers

    I have a 2year old rescue rooster who now lives very happily with my 9 hens. He was a magnificent bird when he arrived, but I have noticed that the girls (and one in particular) are always pecking at his feathers. He is now looking decidedly scruffy, and I have no clue how to stop the hens...
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    How long should I leave my broody on her eggs?

    I've never had a broody before, and let her sit on 5 eggs since she seemed determined to next despite all my efforts to discourage her. The first egg hatched on day 21, and it is now day 24 and nothing else has hatched, and she is determined to stay sitting on them. I'm in Australia, and so...
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    Newbie introduction

    Yes, I'm relatively new to chickens - visited my daughter and son-in-law in Pasadena last year, who have chickens, and that absolutely fired me to get my own. My four ladies, (cross breeds, nothing fancy here) are called Henrietta, Ruby, Henny Panny and Sunday Roast. We all live on the banks...
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    New member hi from Australia

    Not only am I new to raising chickens, I'm not very good at understanding computer correspondence, so my apologies if I ignore people trying to answer my questions because I don't know what button to press! I have four lovely ladies, of indeterminate breed, who live in Cluckingham Palace, who...
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