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  1. Kiawaki

    Peeps in Europe!

    Yes, same here. The length of the trip doesn't matter as much as how the eggs are packed and treated by delivery workers. Of course, better to buy eggs from people directly, but sometimes what I want is not available close by.
  2. Kiawaki

    Peeps in Europe!

    Thanks Maiahr. Here are some photos. It's raining right now so I'll post what I have on my phone. I'm out of adult blue laced Wyandottes at the moment, but I have their chicks growing, I expressed myself wrongly earlier. Including photos of a few others of my birds, and some of my favourite...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    Thanks! At the moment I have silver and blue laced Wyandottes, speckled Sussex, and some young frizzles and silver pencilled brahmas in the brooder right now. Some cross-breeds too. Hope to get some silkies soon. For a small country we actually have quite a lot of breeds available here, but me...
  4. Kiawaki

    Peeps in Europe!

    I have hopefully solved the fox problem by hanging a small portable radio in the area where chickens go to forage. No casualties since then. I just need to be careful to check occasionally if the flock has moved elsewhere (and to pick up the radio after closing the birds in). It helps that the...
  5. Kiawaki

    Sudden chicken death- cause?

    I'm a bit late here, but I wouldn't immediately suspect Marek. It might just as easily be heart attack or some sort of other organ failure. Just like some human children can be born with hidden heart and other problems, so can animals. Those can die suddenly and young. I have about one such case...
  6. Kiawaki

    Hen attacked by dog, advice on care needed

    I'm confused about this, care to say why? If I had a wound and kept it wet, I believe it would heal slower than if left to heal naturally.
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    A fox got a hold of ine of my girls yesterday evening, leaving an open bite wound under her wing.

    Hi, I have a similar problem. A fox attacked yesterday and I lost one hen but came in time to rescue (hopefully) one roo. I can't find any open wound or sign of a broken bone, but he can't stand up by himself, keeps trying and falling over. He wants to eat and drink, but can only take a little...
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    A hen with hot and swollen abdomen (but not egg-bound?)

    Thanks for answering, Daffodil12. Just realized there must be more than abdominal problems - I tried to give her some milk to drink, and she seemed to appreciate it, but besides not being able to see clearly (I had to navigate her head a bit), she seemed to have problems drinking and was...
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    A hen with hot and swollen abdomen (but not egg-bound?)

    Hi all, One of my (free range) hens is in her 3rd day of belly trouble. Her lower belly seems swollen, reddish and hot at touch. She seems able to poop, perhaps with some difficulty, and the poop looks fairly normal, although as she's not eating lately there is less and less of it. I thought...
  10. Kiawaki

    Ended Funny Chicken Name Contest - Win 60 lbs of Grubbly Layer Feed From GrubblyFarms

    We have or had: T-Rex (roo), Dora the Explorer, Grumpy, Fluffbutt. There was a rooster we called General initially, but he got demoted to Sergeant for pecking some hens (although he was pretty OK most of the time). But my vote goes to EMMA (Everything Makes Me Angry) from around page 10 :D
  11. Kiawaki

    Injury or disease? Young chicks with purple heads

    They are doing significantly better today. Skin looks brownish but much less inflamed, and their behavior is perfectly normal and lively. So I guess they were just bruised. Phew!
  12. Kiawaki

    Help with just hatched chicks!!

    If you put a hatched chick under a hen that only recently started incubating, she might not hurt them, but she won't take care of them. Her hormones are not telling her it's time, even if the chicks hatched under her. She is actually likely to suffocate them beneath her since when hens sit on...
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    Best way to manage a mixed flock and hatch pure-bred chicks .... lots of questions!

    I must disagree with the claim that a rooster has to mate with a hen every couple of days for him to fertilize her eggs. I read on several places that it can be up to 3 weeks (maybe she stores the sperm somehow?), and in fact, once when we had 2 roosters with separate flocks of hens, and then...
  14. Kiawaki

    Lost our whole flock...try again?

    Think of it as a process of evolution. Each loss forces you to think about mistakes and solutions. It's an ongoing learning process. It's sad to lose birds, but the more you learn, the less you lose.
  15. Kiawaki

    Fall/Winter Forage?

    I've planted several autumn olives (elaeagnus umbellata). They ripen (allegedly) from September to November. The berries are nutritious - both seeds and pulp. The seeds can be chewed by humans (allegedly) so for a chicken it should be a no-brainer. You can also process some for your own use...
  16. Kiawaki

    Please tell me!!! (MEALWORMS)

    I can add that once when I fed them slices of store-bought potatoes during winter (I was out of organic apples or anything else) most of them died. This winter I took care to avoid potato and everything was ok. So I'm not sure if it was something in the potato itself, or something the potato was...
  17. Kiawaki

    Cuckoo Maran cockerel or pullet?

    When you pick "her" up, does "she" feel heavy and more muscular than others? If so, that's another sign of a roo (on top of everything you already mentioned).
  18. Kiawaki

    Injury or disease? Young chicks with purple heads

    @pekincochin12 They haven't been vaccinated. I keep asking local vet stations about vaccines, but they all say they don't sell small doses - I'd need to buy like 500 or 1000 doses at once. So I guess they only have big farms in mind when selling vaccines. @Eggcessive these actually are with a...
  19. Kiawaki

    Injury or disease? Young chicks with purple heads

    Hi all, I have about 50 young chicks fenced in a relatively large area with lots of grass, shrubs and weeds. They live together with some other chickens and a duck. There are also 2 pigeons and a dove in an adjacent "room" next to their bedroom (but I avoid letting them out in the same time the...
  20. Kiawaki

    Are my chicks okay?!

    Chicks generally don't like to sleep "out in the open" - they like to feel sheltered, so in absence of anything else, they will tend to sleep in a corner or by a wall. Except if they are too cold, then they'll be under the heater.
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