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  1. Chookydeb

    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    no, i tried incubating them myself but when i candled them at a week there was no development on a brighter note my nephew gave me two silver laced wyandotts as a chrissie present
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    sick chook, total newbie chook owner

    thanks
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    sick chook, total newbie chook owner

    just went to check on her and she's dead :( i still cant see whatever was wrong, just some ruffled feathers
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    sick chook, total newbie chook owner

    i'm new to chickens, i've never had one sick (injured yes) this girl has suddenly gone all sad and mopey, her comb is dull and not standing up like the others, she's not leaving the coop at all, just standing in one corner looking miserable, when i picker her up i noticed water dripping from...
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    redneck incubator

    i needed an emergency incubator so i've come up with a quick solution i stood a styrofoam vegetable box on its end like a cupboard, put a heat lamp in about 15cm from the bottom, put in the eggs with a couple of trays of water and punched a hole through the side for a thermometer, then i...
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    unjured chicken - help?

    thanks for the help guys, i really appreciate that i have somewhere i can ask questions she seems fine now, she was a bit sore and sorry for a couple of days and stayed in the coop but now she's back to normal and the wound is all but gone - chooks sure do heal fast i worked out what...
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    Built me a styrofoam incubator

    i've just built one too, my broody hen decided she wasnt ready to be a mother styrofoam box, red heat lamp that says if if 15cm from the eggs its at about 100F, two small glasses of water and a big dose of luck
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    how long will the eggs last with nobody sitting on them - they were laid on thursday or friday last week
  9. Chookydeb

    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    is there anybody in the Newcastle/Lake Macquarie NSW area the could incubate some eggs for me? my broody hen changed her mind and decided to be a lousy mother
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    unjured chicken - help?

    ok, i'll quit stressing, what will be will be i guess - she's tucked up in a corner of the coop and she seems alert but she's not eating, i'll just leave her in peace
  11. Chookydeb

    unjured chicken - help?

    the wound is right in the middle of her back just below where the wings joint
  12. Chookydeb

    unjured chicken - help?

    the egg is out, it was soft and leathery, no shell at all i cleaned it out with saline, plucked out the fethers around the wound and dusted it some antibiotic powder, there seems to be a piece of skin missing about the size of a penny, what worried me though was when i picked her up again air...
  13. Chookydeb

    unjured chicken - help?

    thanks would being attacked make her lay a wonky egg? she's got some discharge from her bum too
  14. Chookydeb

    unjured chicken - help?

    ****, cant spell for $hit when i'm stressed
  15. Chookydeb

    unjured chicken - help?

    i've just noticed i've got an injured chicken, i first noticed because she was sitting down and had laid a half formed egg, when i picked her up i noticed she has a wound on her back, down to the bone but not too big, about the size of the end of my finger, it looks like a puncture wound, it had...
  16. Chookydeb

    Coop & Run Basics...questions from a beginner

    a 4' fence is nothing to a chicken, they fly chickens are incredibly destructive to the grass and plants, what they dont eat they dig up. I"m on more than an acre and they've cleared the undergrowth in less than six months. where i am is heavily tree'd, under the trees was a layer of wandering...
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    Assess my coop design for predator threats

    that gap between the wall and the roof will have to be filled and i dont know about racoons but foxes will tear staples out, i stapled the HC on then nailed a strip of thin wood over the top for security i have more of a fox problem here, coyotes would be similar i guess - i laid heavy duty...
  18. Chookydeb

    sugar cane waste as litter?

    umm, it looks like a cross between shavings and straw, like roughly chopped thick grass, mine is a bit more chopped than this picture, like coarse chaff
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    sugar cane waste as litter?

    they spray the heck out of wheat too so theres not much difference, it must be ok because this is the waste from the mill, if it was full of pesticides so is the sugar...hmm, good reason to not eat sugar
  20. Chookydeb

    Flock Sleeping Outside

    mine insist on roosting on the railing outside my office, every night i have to go out before bed and put 7 sleepy chooks in their house, i'm pretty sure if i left them there they would be eaten by a fox :(
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