For about a week now my dominant hen has announced the dawn with what can only be described as a crow. I dont't think she popped out for a sex change op so I looked it up on Google, thought she might be ill, but according to Google it can happen. It
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I got some chooky troubles. Our chooks have gone off the lay and are not broody. Only one is laying and that one is broken in the lay box when she lays (which has been happening since before Xmas). They have the same water, grit (cooks and
Read more…We bought three 15wk chicks a couple of months ago and now two of them look like roosters. We want to get back into eggs as soon as poss so does anyone know of a source of a couple of POL hens? Auckland area. Daniel: can we have our hamburgs back!!
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Coccidiosis- Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis.
Diagnosis-
I got 5 chickens 4 weeks ago, that were about 4-8 weeks old then.
Since then some of their dropping have had- red bits that look like blood, pink muscousy bits that look
like bit of ther
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We have 3 Wynadottes, that are not yet laying, probably sometime after xmas, mid January hopefully.
Anyway we have been given a stray bird someone found that no one has claimed, it looks like a Shaver and its beak looks like its been cut at so
Hiya, my hen has been brooding about 6 weeks now and though I tried to stop her from the beginning nothing worked. I am starting to wonder if she will ever leave the nest. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Read more…I am new at keeping chickens since Sep/Oct this year and have my 1st health issue this morning...
Noticed during my morning feeding ritual that Queeny my Barnevelder hen has a badly swollen right back toe thumb. She has always been a limpy/hoppety ki
Hi just wondering if anyone has any suggestions / ideas about how to deal with this one poor chicken. She is a standard brown shaver, i have 18 in total, but this one has lost all of her feathers around her butt.
She seems fine, eating and drinking
Read more…Ok I have read the books, built the chook house, and run into a minor snag, the price of chooks, when i set out everyone said get the ex caged ones for $5 each, which seems kinda nice to give the chappettes a nice non caged end to their days, unfortu
Read more…We just got a couple of arucauna pullets and they've been settling in nicely - but I've noticed one of them keeps shaking her head sideways as though she had something in her ear. Any suggestions what might cause this? (hope it's not serious, we like
Read more…We're planning to get a couple of chickens. I'd really like to give them organic food (without too much extra work) - can anyone tell me where to get it? (Palm-oil free would be nice too).
We have an area planted in blue lupin (Lupinus alternifolius) and I'm wondering if I can either feed the foliage to the chooks or even put them in that area for a while to forage. Apparently blue lupin can be used as "animal fodder", but I'm unsure
Read more…I picked up some Budget Poultry pellets from Pak n Sav. I really should've looked on the ingredients before buying it, because it has palm kernal. Does anyone know where I can get affordable feed in West Auckland without palm kernal as an ingredien
Read more…I feel guilty asking the neighbours to feed our hens when we go away for a weekend. My hens free range on approx 300m of land. Does anyone know of any suitable automatic feeders for a flock of six?
Read more…Hi there, I need some help as Im not sure whats going on with my darling little Boss Hog. She is a 10 month old white sussex and has been up until now really healthy, active egg layer, boss of the coop etc. She lives with another light sussex and 4
Read more…Hamburg hens free to a Good Home. Our three are starting their second summer now and we want to try other breeds instead. These chooks are so flighty that we can't get near them and so are just not people-friendly, let alone kid-friendly. They look g
Read more…So we got our chickens last night. There are four and they are all different breeds. The largest is the orpington and she seems to be the boss lady. She is pecking the bum of the smaller araucana to the point of making it bloody. I've read that I sho
Read more…We have recently fenced our hens into a large portion of our section so they cannot get into the vege gardens but they jump/flap their way onto a post and out. Even with a clipped wing. They have plenty of grass, scratching area, trees to climb, food
Read more…I've had my chooks for a week and half - 2 silkie pullets, a pekin hen & a 3 month old frizzle. The pekin has had a sore foot & limping from the day we got her. The owner said she wasn't limping & was fine before we collected her & I trust her. She i
Read more…I had suspected our 3 bantams were spoilt before our holiday, but now it's confirmed. Before our break we were getting 21 eggs per week,but whilst we were away productivity dropped to 4 in 10 days! Since our return a week ago we've had nowt and they
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