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  1. Shadrach

    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    There was a thread on beak and spur trimming (It was a featured thread) and also an article by twocrows which is as usual well written but not a view I can support. These two papers you may find interesting. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1166494/...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I think there is a limited supply of relevant studies and of course, the reluctance to make the investment needed for the research. The links the author provides in the text can lead to further info. The problem is many of the papers are in university archives and getting access to them often...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    @micstrachan I dug this up a while ago and I've been meaning to post it thinking you might like to read it. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1064-4
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    This is more of a duck than a chicken. I would love to have the equipment and the opportunity to investigate predator recognition more thoroughly. If chickens can discriminate between predators then surely this must be learnt behavior. Each country, area has different predators so it is hard to...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Thanks, I hadn't read this one. Even as an abstract I found it interesting.
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Bristol University have done a few studies on chickens now. That's quite an old article but well worth reading.
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    :p I do it a lot. One second I've got it all in my head and the next I'm banging on about something different. I completely agree with you about feed. Chickens are omnivorous. It seems there are an awful lot of Vegan chickens around these days;) I do agree with the advice about feeding scratch...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    It's not a 'how to' kind of book. It has lots of general information about chickens. I think its a great book just to have and browse through. It's well presented and packaged and the information is easy to digest while covering a number of things in a manner I've not found in many of the other...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I would seriously recommend the second book for you @PouleChick
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I’ve made some horrendous mistakes in the past. I found it really difficult to get accurate information. Even with accurate information, individual chickens can be so different and the places one might seek advice are often biased in their view of the nature of the chicken and what treatment is...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Isn't that the truth and many adults too. It reads to me as if you're going about it in a sensible manner. The experience comes if you spend time with the chickens and observe their behavior. I'm always at odds with the view that chickens make good pets. Ime experience it takes an awful lot of...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Once you’ve got the confidence of the mum your most of the way there. Something that rarely gets mentioned is how you treat the mum while she’s sitting. I read a lot of post where people are taking eggs away from the mum to candle them or generally play, and disturbing a sitting hens eggs...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Lovely pictures of the chicks. For the past six years and often in the two preceding years I’ve been with each mum as the chicks have hatched. For some they hear my voice along with their mothers while they are still in the egg. I’ve found that because the mothers accept me (exactly what as I...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I think the advice not to pick chickens up is basically sound. What doesn’t get mentioned much is other ways to enable you to gain sufficient trust from the chickens in order to catch them if necessary. It seems to me that what chickens don’t like is have their wings restricted and their feet...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I think body language and your emotional state has a major bearing on communicating with chickens. I have some visitors who when they arrive miraculously empty my house of chickens; others, the chickens don't seem very bothered by. I had one very over the top women arrive to look at the lamps I...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    What breed is she? Sry. I know virtually nothing about the breeds kept in the US?:hmm She’s a lovely looking hen. Looks very healthy. Not even specks around the ears! The lot here look a bit scruffy in comparison.:p I handle the mums and the chicks. As they grow up I generally only handle them...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    Bridgey must know you very well. It took me quite a while before Fat Bird and Ruffles would accept me as an escort. The useful thing is once the younger hens have seen the more senior being escorted they tend to accept you more easily. I’ve got one, Tackle, and she wont have any of it. It’s her...
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    A Letter to Beginners Regarding Emergencies and Illnesses

    I can’t remember if you have a rooster? Other calls that are reasonably easy to identify are; Call sign call. When a hen approaches another. Escort call; when a hen has laid an egg or wants escorting to or back from an egg site to the flock. (egg song) Take cover call; the call a mother hen...
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