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    Thoughts on coop please

    My coop is about your size and I have 3 girls. They only go in there to sleep and lay eggs, the remainder of the time they are either in a run attached to the coop that we have also made or they run around the whole yard. We only have a very small garden but we have put lots of things in pots...
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    Thoughts on coop please

    Wow, You must have been so busy building that amazing coop. Is that 6 nesting boxes I can see in there? How many girls are you planning to actually have locked in there for most of the day? It looks like plenty of space now while the chicks are small but I'm not sure it will be big enough for...
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    My fussy eaters

    Hi everyone For your info I'm in Australia and its Autumn. i haven't been on here for a while. I do need some advice though. My girls are healthy and appear happy and one is just going through a massive moult. I've just read the article on moulting and now Ill sleep tonight as its put my mind...
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    One more question about my broody girls

    OK guys cage it is. Ill attend to that today. Thanks everyone
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    One more question about my broody girls

    Hi everyone Thanks so much for the help so far. I have 2 broody chickens and 1 non broody one at the moment. If I leave them to it in the nesting boxes they have chosen and go in there 3 or 4 times a day to get them out to eat, drink and poop (which they are doing quite happily even though they...
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    2 of my 3 girls are broody. Advice needed please

    Yes I know its a crazy house. We found the weiro as a finger tamed youngster and have had her about 4 years. She loves her large open cage in the living room and has the run of the house. When she gets broody though she wants to nest somewhere else so the latest favourite place is a shoe box...
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    2 of my 3 girls are broody. Advice needed please

    thanks for all the info people. Yes I had not thought of any of the negatives apart from are the mothers likely to attack each other. Ill have to get the weiro cage down and put it on the floor and the chickens in it to cool them down. Good job the weiro is sitting on infertile eggs on top of...
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    Is my rooster a lost hope?

    Love your story Jemma. My frizzle bantam came to me with 4 babies just 2 weeks old. One rooster just attached himself to me, probably because he was so lovely I picked him up every day. Any way we live in the suburbs in Australia and cant keep roos so when he started crowing I would bring him...
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    Comment by 'sonandsal' in article 'Buff Orpingtons Chicken Breed Information Pictures'

    After seeing these photos I realise one of mine is a buff Orpington. That first top photo could have been my girl called little chicken although these days we usually call her fatty chicken because of the big fluffy butt. Those eyes just melted me when I first saw her, she looked so lost and...
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    2 of my 3 girls are broody. Advice needed please

    Hi all I havent been on the forum for quite a long time but I do have a question now. Ill just introduce the girls first. I have 3 girls. All bantams of sorts. Mrs frizzle is a frizzle bantam, she looks like a ball of grey and white fluffy crinkly lace, the oldest girl and the smallest (but...
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    how long will my broody chicken sit on a stone if i just leave her to it

    Thank you all ill sort that tomorrow
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    Please help! Rooster attacking hen(s)

    Get rid of the rooster. I agree with some op you wont be able to change him now. He doesnt deserve those lovely girls and they dont deserve to get their eyes pecked out. Whats holding you back.
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    how long will my broody chicken sit on a stone if i just leave her to it

    Mrs frizzle (my bantam frizzle) has has 2 batches of chickens before and has been broody for at least 2 weeks. She sits on a small stone in the nest each day. I lift her out every day for some food and although she growles she does eat and then has a dust bath in the sun then goes back to the...
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    Fowl pox

    Thank you for the advice. if I use tweezers for the stubborn ones wont the heads break off and stay in the chickens skin and if so will that then cause problems.
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    Fowl pox

    Thank you so much everybody. Nasty little critters. i put olive oil on them this morning and when I got home mrs frizzle had been dust bathing and some of them had come off. She had really rubbed her face in the dirt and it is now very dirty. I've just put vaseline on them this afternoon and I...
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    Fowl pox

    Poor mrs frizzle
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    Fowl pox

    We are in australia and its pretty hot some days as we are in summer. Mr frizzle has been stressed recently dealing with her young cockrel that wont seperate. We are about to rehome him hopefully this week but mrs frizzle will then be an only chicken. Maybe thats good until she is well and then...
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    Fowl pox

    Here are some photos
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    Fowl pox

    Sorry about all the typos on this tablet
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    Fowl pox

    Im pretty sure after looking at pictures and reading articles on the intrrnet that mrs frizzle has fowl pox. She has crusty black lesions on her comb, wattle and round her eye and gas started shaking her head. I also have noticed that she is rattling when she breathes the kast couple of days...
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