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    Rosalines Member Page

    Hello my name is Kerry and I am from England. I am a single mum to my beautiful daughter Cora. And I have a lovely boyfriend rick who puts up with my obssesive chicken talk and he even encourages my obssetion. How fantastic is he xx. I started with my love of chickens when I was 3. My next door...
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    Hen has one eye closed

    One of my hens has gone broody, she has been sitting on some plastic eggs for a while now. She comes out for food and water and some times one of my other hen will peck at her and chase her. I went to collect some eggs and noticed that she had one eye open and the other eye closed. I didnt know...
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    18 weeks and I still can't tell gender of hamburgh x

    I think point of lay pullet too. All my girls have the blue bit on the side of there heads and none of my boys did. Good luck x
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    unsure of snowflakes gender *silkie experts needed*

    Quote: Give your chicken a week or two more it might take longer then a male chicken to mature. It is sooooo fustrating but good luck anyway
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    Polish crested - hen or roo?

    Wow what a lovley looking chicken x its hard to tell. I have 3 silkie cross hens and one has a fluffy head like yours but no comb or wattles and she is a she.
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    unsure of snowflakes gender *silkie experts needed*

    I know silkie chickens mature slower than other breeds. I waited 3 long months until mine started to lay. I got them from a farmers market and they looked like point of lay. Does your silkie sit down when you go to pet it or does it run off. When mine had matured they would sit down for me to...
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    unsure of snowflakes gender *silkie experts needed*

    I have silkie cross hens. one is fluffy like yours but has no fluffy head but has a comb the same as yours. I thought that she was a boy and nearly tryed to get rid. My boyfriend told me to wait and make sure it was a boy. I am so glad I waited as she was the first one to lay an egg. Good luck x
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    Laying boxes

    Hello, My hens all like to share the same box when laying there eggs. I try to get the egg before the other hen goes in to lay but I dont always manage it. But they have never brocken the other hens egg. They are always intact. Good luck x
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    is there such a thing a chicken proof plants?

    Normally if the chickens dont eat the plants it is becouse they are poisenous ( sorry about the spelling) What about plastic plants
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    Tell me about your roosters! When & "why" do yours crow?? :)

    Hello, I had a silkie rooster and when he first started to crow it was at any time of the day. But not in the mornings, which I was glad of. Then one day a week or two later I noticed he did it when the birds in the trees twittered. It was like he was trying to talk with them. Once he...
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    questions about first egg?

    Hello, I have 3 silkie cross hens. They started laying a week ago. If you go up to one and try to stroke it and it sits down and lifts its wings a little, then it will be soon when she starts to lay. I heard this advise from some one on a site like this one ages ago. So I always tryed...
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    When to use a nest egg.

    Hello, I never closed off my boxes, My chickens sleeped in there. People on another site told me to move them and put them on the roosts, show them what to do. I never did. They instictivly went on the roosts when the weather got warmer. They never sleep in the boxes now. I woundered if...
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    Dirty Chickens!

    I can only think of parking some where else or fence in your chickens. Not alot you can do. My chickens keeped going into the front garden, I didnt want them in there. So I chased them out. After a while they stoped trying to get into the front garden. Fed up of me running after them Good luck x
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    Funny Sentence Game

    Rats and horses understand in wet grass. BVIJOQL
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    Funny Sentence Game

    Quote: Gerry forgot you yesterday. Gerry answered Quote. fpoieds
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    Funny Sentence Game

    Quote: Leo let tame ostrichs zip doughnuts kherms Kermit has ended relationship? muppet show
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    Funny Sentence Game

    Lilly Loves The one Zoo Day. xhuarc Good luck x
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    chickens opening doors?

    Thankfully the poop door leads to a enclosed run so it is them doing it. I sleep very lighty as I am worryed about preditors. Iv noticed little hole going underneath the run which is only big enought for a mouse. So I am putting pretty stones from the beach around the coop and hopefully this...
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    chickens opening doors?

    Last night I went out too lock up my chickens, make sure they where in bed, and take out the food. This morning I got up to let them out into the run and to feed them. And to my surprize they where out. I looked at the poop door and it was opened slightly. I am egar to see if they ddo this...
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    Rabbit hutch transformed

    I was given a rabbit hutch a few weeks ago. I was going to use it as a brooder but I got older chicks so I nolonger need a brooder. So I am using it as a chicken run. I have cleaned it as it was still covered in Rabbit poo, cobwebs and spiders and dead butterflies I have spent 2 hours cleaning...
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