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I've pretty much given up on successfully hatching any chicks. The hens get broody, but don't stay on the eggs long enough. The bigger hens lay on top of the broody bantams too, causing chaos Last year I tried marking the first lot of eggs and removed later ones, but it was tricky, then the...

Great article. We love our little bantams (pekin and OEG), especially the OEGs. Sadly, they have been regularly picked off by predators, whereas the only full size chook we have lost was to old age. The OEGs could at least fly up on the roof and into trees to save themselves, the poor little...

We have 2 dogs, almost two years old. They were very young when we bought them, and the chooks arrived when the pups were about 6 months old. The dogs and chooks all free range and so far they haven't killed any. They are 1/4 Husky 1/4 German Shep 1/2 Border Collie. I think they are chook safe...

Hey Teila, we are in northern NSW and we had no eggs for about 4 months, if not longer. We were getting about 12 a day, then our rooster was killed in the coop by a python. It seemed to spook all the hens out of laying, although at first I thought they were perhaps laying somewhere in the...

Nerd alert for our chook names. Some don't have names but here's the ones I can remember. Princess Layer, Bruce, Robin,Julius and Brutus - OEG bantams hens. Sirius (Black Australorp Roo) Temujin- Jungle Fowl Roo Boudica and Beyonce, cage rescue Isa Browns Racing stripes, Ginger Biscuit...

My favourite rooster died fighting off a python, a bigger python ate a hen, hawks swoop on them as they free range but so far no casualties there. This week we lost a pekin and suspect it was either a quoll, fox or goanna. Only little bits were left uneaten. I hope she provided a feed for a...

To get a bit of extra free food for our birds we have a big tin with holes cut in the bottom hanging in their yard. We throw a bit of scrap meat in the tin, and have a pretty constant drip of maggots dropping out the bottom. Surprisingly, it doesn't smell. We also keep our bokashi composter...

Looks like a great new resource. I'm a little fearful of branching out, but hopefully this will give me some confidence and knowledge, thanks.

Thanks everyone, great advice. It didn't work out this time but at least I have a much better idea where to go from here. We made a little nursery pen inside the coop but away from the regular nest boxes. Moved all four broodies over with 23 eggs last night. They freaked and wouldn't stay with...

Hi Chook People, I'm in the Northern Rivers, NSW and have one rooster (Temujin, a jungle fowl), 6 isa browns and 5 old English game bantams. We live on 22 acres and the chooks free range all day but have a yard and coop for night time. We only bought the place and collected the chooks...