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Sorry that Chikmagnet is not a very patient subscriber! As mentioned by Gottalovemychickens, some others of us DO have another life that sometimes intrudes! In my experience (65 yrs love affair with chooks) clucky (or broody) hens will try to hatch anything they can park their behinds on! By...

Hi There, Yes, a dog would be nice around the place too. Trouble is, we have our gals free-ranging under a Kiwifruit canopy and a dog is not going to want to spend all day comuning with our chooks! I dont know of any dog that is THAT dumb! (maybe our Kiwi dogs are more "new age"? )

Hi there. You have my total sympathy, we have been steadily losing ground to predating Hawks here on our small lifestyle block in New Zealand for the last two years. Trouble is.. The darned things are totaly protected here and if we retaliate with a shotgun or trap (as I would like to!) it...

:bowThis is actually how I lucked onto this great BYC Forum in the first place. My free range flock of thirty -odd gals is being picked off one by one by a New Zealand (Fully protected) Harrier Hawk. I sought advice from fellow chicken addicts on our own NZ. forum www.chickenrescue.nz and...

Thanks for the huge welcome. Can't believe how friendly all you Northern hemisphere chicken nuts are! Love the shot of your beautiful dog. They always seem to have a certain presence about them, don't they? We are "between dogs" at present as we have a very old cat which we inherited when we...

and I thought I was the last of the original fruit-loops when it came to names! OH BOY I feel as if I've come right home here! My screen name of Saladman dates back to when I was working for a Hydro-ponic Lettuce company and travelling around our region's food providers selling gourmet salads...

Not really sure how this works. Anyhoot, My bride and myself are owned by about thirty-five mixed breed chickens (only here in New Zealand we call them CHOOKS) We are all supervised by a squad of 14 Pekin - cross ducks. The ducks are very protective of the chooks as they were all incubated and...