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hi, all my chickens have had to be put in the coop the first couple of nights, after that they started doing it themselves, after the sun starts to set but before its completely dark.

i only have 5 no more room khaki campbell x appleyard so the 3 from previous poster and my 5 3+5+1456=1464 1464

my ducks have all day access to a pond, but at night to avoid the mess they have a couple of water bottles, the ones ment for rabbits, they quickly figured out how to use them and they havnt had any problems with them so far.

do chicks that get red combs at a young age ALWAYS turn out to be roos or does anyone have any experiance with them being pullets? a friend of mine hatched some of my eggs for me, i have 7 chicks. 4 are 9 weeks and 3 are 8 weeks, only one of them has a small pale comb, 3 have small red combs and...

I have a 9(ish) month old amber star pullet who had been laying 4-6 eggs a week through-out winter, then two weeks ago she lays a soft egg - then nothing, not one! she wasnt moulting, not broody, so as you can imagine i was starting to worry she had something was wrong with her. but she was...

seein as your not there to inspect the coop before locking the door, does nobody get concerned that a critter may get in before the door closes and gets locked in with the chooks leaving them no way of escaping? or do you all have a way around this? surpose its less risky then leaving it wide...

yes, mine always come running the second i open the door

i think i read somewhere that people give to hens that are going through there molt or as a treat, but i dont think its a healthy choice for there main food . mine will come in and steal the cats food if i forget to close the back door

so shortly after posting, my ex came round to bring my son home, he decided to take a look, he managed to get her eye lids unstuck and got a little white glupy stuff out her eyes, she was able to hold them open by herself, he also cleared the fluff that had got stuck down across her nostils with...

yesterday while cleaning out my silkie chicks cage i noticed that one of them was just standing in the corner hunched up in a ball with her eyes closed. i kept an eye on her for the remainder of the day, s/he has been moving around a little but very clumbsy as her eyes are still closed, i havent...

i originally had four boys, apart from the occasional standoff they got along fine. i still had two boys when i got my girls and they still seemed fine and both equally went with the girls, but they were young my remaining roo (now a daddy, not that he knows it) is only five months, dont know...

thankyou all, hoping for girls, my first 4 chicks i had last summer ALL turned out to be boys ive since bought the two layers and now have one roo left to rehome, i cant keep them, the neighbours complain (im sure they spend all there time doing this -->) i dont blame them, and i cant keep...

these are my day old chicks that a friend down the road hatched from my eggs for me. (more on the way next week) pic of mum(s) & dad(S) the dads are mutts one female is a scruffy leghorn and i cant remember what breed the other female is. also i had a couple of silkies from her, she...

you were all 100% correct heres a couple of recent pics (excuse the mess) i took back the brown and black pair this saturday, and got two laying girls about six months old. five eggs so far! im still undecided as to what to do with the other boys, im thinking of keeping the small...

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i live in a terraced house so my neibours are close, i wouldnt want to annoy them with the noise. also the council made my neibour get rid of her roosters, although she rents council owned accomodation where as i own my house so that might have been down to the tenancy aggrement and not the law...

hi, im completely new to chicken keeping, in fact 6 weeks ago i wasnt even aware people kept them as pets, my son told me that his friend a few doors down had some and insisted that we get some, so I looked them up on the internet & the more i read the more i wanted some to. I got my chicks...