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We have got so many flies!
We used to let the girl free range o the far side of the backyard, but foxes so now they’re in a 1.8x4.5m run. Plus also the missus wanted the far side of her backyard back.
Back the we did have flies, but because they were so far away it didn’t feel that...
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I'm in Melbourne, Australia and have been trying to figure out what to buy to feed the chooks with...
We've been giving them: https://www.petbarn.com.au/peckish-performance-poultry-layer-mix-18kg
And they're pretty happy with it (even though they mostly ignore the pellets and just eat all...
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I've got 6 chooks, and one of them - a Silkie x Araucana cross - consistently gives really weird wet poos.
One of my brahmas also sometimes gives a weird wet one (the middle picture with the slightly more blackish poo is hers), but most of the time it's fine...
The Silkie x Araucana...
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I've got 6 chooks, and turns one of them - the tiny feisty bantam - has been flying over a 2m fence to the neighbours' backyard...
The other 5 haven't exhibited such behaviours. That we know of...
So we've decided to clip one of the bantam's wings. Should I clip the other chooks' wings...
Wow, such a great reception, thank you for making me feel so welcomed!
These are my brahmas with their pantaloon feet
The australorp & Japanese bantam. (The australorp's gone and dug herself a giant hole that she is *standing* in... not sitting)
The silkie x araucana
And the lav...
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We've had a terribly overgrown garden bed that we let the chooks into to clean it up.
Went from
to
So that's good. But as expected, they'd have also been pooping into it, etc.
What I'm intending to do now is to put ~1m3 of veggie bed soil into it, let it sit for about a...
Hi All!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Used to run around with my grandparents' urban chooks in Asia, now gotten some of our own about 8 weeks ago
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
6 Chooks
(3) What breeds do you have?
Lavender Araucana
Australorp...