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    Chickens in nature

    When I watched my turkey hen twice attacking and beating a hawk in spring, there was no successful hawk attack for more than 2 months after that...
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    Chickens in nature

    I'm very envious. The hawk kills most of our chickens and chicks.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I've almost read the whole discussion. Interesting to read and thanks to all of you who contributed! @LaurenRitz When you write about your breed crosses: Which breed is the abreviation "BA"? And what does "BYM" mean? Greetings!
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    Chickens in nature

    So back to topic! Also thanks to @No Coop No Problem for sharing all this especially the wonderful photos! I live with a family and some other people in a big house in the countryside. We have about 2300m2 for our poultry. I live here since 3 years and the hawks killed so many chicks and...
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    Chickens in nature

    Yes, Google translator isn't the best for translating I realized ;) It's better to translate by myself. Thanks for explanation.
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    Chickens in nature

    In Latin it's Martes martes. They live here in Germany and can climb trees. Yes, but I asked because this nest-box in the tree sounded unsafer than just letting her hatch in the brush.
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    Chickens in nature

    Isn't it totally unsafe for the broodies to hatch their chicks in there? I mean, wouldn't a raccoon dog easily see the broody and eat her? Wouldn't it be safer for her to hatch a clutch deep inside a dense brush?
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    Mini American Game Breeding Project(From Scratch)(And Discussion Thread)

    Thanks :) I've already found it before but I haven't read it completely yet.
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    Mini American Game Breeding Project(From Scratch)(And Discussion Thread)

    Are you planning on keeping them without a coop in future?
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    Mini American Game Breeding Project(From Scratch)(And Discussion Thread)

    I'm glad that you're interested in the Deutsches Buschhuhn :) I don't own them yet, but it looks good that I convinced my chicken mate that I keep our chickens with to get a Deutsches Buschhuhn cock so that we can mix our own survival chickens. Next year, I also wanna buy some hatching eggs near...
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    Mini American Game Breeding Project(From Scratch)(And Discussion Thread)

    As I don't wanna read the whole topic: 1: What is your main goal of your breeding program? 2: When do you let your chickens free range? Are there some of them free-ranging already? 3: Did you know that there's a German breed called "Deutsches Buschhuhn" (German bush fowl) that lays green eggs...
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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    I even found his videos more inspiring than his book because I could see the chicken run and live. Also, his attitude and behavior when one or many of his chickens died was eye-opening for me. He just saw it objective: "Only the strongest survive." I'm very sad that he deleted the videos...
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    Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

    I agree. He changed my mindset. I always thought that if I kept my chickens properly, none of them would be killed by a predator. But it's not like that at all. I wanted to watch his videos a lot times more to remember every little important information. Now it's not possible anymore :'(
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    Is my guinea hen preparing for a hatch?

    Thanks. We pen our mother chickens up, so I'm used to this :) We have two mother chicks at the moment with chicks of different ages.
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    Is my guinea hen preparing for a hatch?

    My guinea fowl hen Petra has gained a lot of weight the last few weeks. Since some weeks she layed almost every day an egg into the chicken coop into the same nest. Today, suddenly there were a lot of down feathers from her. I've recently been told that ducks put a lot of down feathers into...
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    Why is my white Jersey Giant not giant?

    I asked him again. He said: "Well, I'm 100% sure she's purebred. But my personal experience with white chickens is that they're always a little behind or don't develop quite as well as the others."
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    Why is my white Jersey Giant not giant?

    Thanks for your answer! No, I haven't weighed them, but I picked them up and she is definitely lighter. I mean, the height of her is the same, but she has less muscles. The guy from whom I bought them, said he only owned Jerseys when they hatched naturally and then these 3 blacks hatched and...
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    Why is my white Jersey Giant not giant?

    Hi there! I bought 4 Jersey Giant hens in March. They are from natural breeding and siblings. Now they are 11 months old. I've got 3 black ones and one white one. But why is my white hen so slim? Is she still gaining mass? Is she just growing slower? In comparison you can see one of my giant...
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    Could this be a guinea fowl egg?

    Now it's official! This one is a guinea egg. Just saw my Petra laying it into a chicken's nest.
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    Could this be a guinea fowl egg?

    We feed our chickens their own shells which we break before so that they have enough calcium for their eggs.
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