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  1. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    chicken names

    @theoldchick: aww your chickens are gorgeous. im thinking perhaps minnie and matilda or margo for my next 2. havnt decided what im getting yet though perhaps a ranger
  2. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    chicken names

    just curious about what chicken names are out there... i have 4 chickens andwe decided to stick to m names so so far we have martha mildred maud and myrtle and we had a chicken who died recintly called mary... were running out of m names and want 2 more chickens anyone got any ideas...
  3. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    short beak!!! please help!

    well they do quite like soggy brown bread which we give them to fill them up a bit - often sprinkled with grit cos they dont get enough of it otherwise, i also try to give them fruit too which they love such as grapes and halved orange - which they all love!! though it took our new 2 a while to...
  4. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    odd behaviour?

    i have 2 new chickens which i added to my existing flock of 2 after one died, i keep my older 2 chickens in their existing coup at night and bought a coup for my new chickens (theyre all free ranged during the day.) but my younger 2 go into the run in front of their coup at night until they get...
  5. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    short beak!!! please help!

    i got 2 new chickens recently and they had both got really short blunt beaks. one of them has grown back and is fine but the others still seems quite short and she sometimes struggles to pick up or food of the floor or out of my hand, we keep food in dishes for them but they prefer to find their...
  6. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    how to break my hen of being broody

    im not sure if my chickens becoming broody or not i have 2 chickens laying and two that arent laying yet i have caught both of them sitting on their egg for a while after theyve layed a few times but i take the egg and coax them out of the house and they just go, but they dont try to go back in...
  7. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    Quote: well our vet does have chickens himself but has admitted to not being very experienced with chicken illnesses
  8. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    ill keep an eye on them just to be sure theyre ok, but they all seem fine this morning
  9. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    thanks for the info. wish i had known this 2 weeks ago. luckily they are all pulling through now. the one we thought was the carrier got a puffy eye a few days after we introduced them. we took her to the vets and he said to give antibiotics and that she would be fine, the thing is were not sure...
  10. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    well ive already had my chickens together for two weeks. and they had been given all their injections before i bought them but we do suspect that one of the new ones was a carrier of a respiritory infection and passed it onto the other new one and one of our older birds but as soon as we...
  11. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    just thought i should let you all know ive more or less sorted out the problem. mum and dad went away yesterday and im coping fine on my own. i mostly leave them to it and just go out to check that they havnt wandered too far. we solved the problem by just buying another coup from ebay and have...
  12. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    yeah i heard about that too but the only thing is though theyve already been introduced so i dont think that would really work now. were going to get another small coop to kep the new chickens in for a few months until they start to accept them as part of the group.
  13. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    thanks for the help. the only thing is though weve managed to get the older two to bed but when the others follow them they get kicked back out. i think the only thing that has worked so far is getting the older 2 in letting them go to sleep then letting the other 2 go in afterwards. also we...
  14. sweetie_pie09@homail.co.u

    introducing new chickens to a flock.

    i bought 3 chickens last year and recently one of them was killed by a bird of prey, i got 2 more on monday called myrtle and maud and following the sellers advice we shut them in the run whilst the others ( since we free range our chickens) were left to roam the garden, when it came to getting...
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