Our first ever hens are arriving on Wednesday and I am wondering where to put their feeder? Do they need one in their house and in their outside run? or just one in their house. Or when they are used to their new digs can they have feeder just outsid
Read more…I see I need to re-sow some patches of my little lawn, but now we have free-range hens what will they make of the lawn seed? Any ideas? Fence small areas of lawn off while the seeds germinate, grow, etc etc. Buy pink seed? Help required! chooks.jpg
Read more…One of our 4 hens has had obvious scaley leg mite since we got them all 9 months ago. The other 3 don't seem to have caught them yet despite very iintimate dust bathing together and 'host' hen's infestation doesn't seem to have got much worse. Is it
Read more…What's everyone's chooks' laying rates like this week, and how has it been over autumn leading into winter?
We've decided we're going to dispatch our ducks and eat them, I was just wondering what method most people use to dispatch their hens/ducks humanely?
I was wondering how do you butcher a chicken? is it easy for someone who has never butchered anything before to do?
We have lots of sparrows eating our chooks' pellets. The feeder was out under the henhouse, but seeing hundreds of passerines developing I moved the feeder inside the house. NOW the little sparrows are going inside the house! I first thought of hangi
Read more…Hi Chickeners,what are your thoughts on this,we are on a lifestyle block,so we are building a large coop with 6 nest boxes,enough eggs we hope for a large family and eggs to trade.I want to use the poo for the garden so i want to make it an easy job
Read more…I have 3 light sussex only i is laying and now has stopped for the 5th day, she looked sick 2 days ago and yesterday was wanting to lay as she was in the shed nesting. Her comb is red today as is scratching and eating any suggestions should i go to a
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Can anyone help ?I had 3 chickens 1 was a roster so replaced it with 2 hens.1 of my original hens became the MATRON.Then to my horror just when the order was back 1 new hen died.So now the other new hen is getting told off all the time and is on the
Read more…I've just got my 3 new girls and wondered how long to keep them in the coop until it would be safe to let them out and have them come back to roost of their own accord. I have a big backyard for them to explore but it is not completely fenced and of
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I'm about to take the plunge and build myself a chicken coop (and then put some chickens in it, of course). I'm in suburbia, and want the coop to be more of a chicken tractor with and attached run, so I can shift the birds around and ev
HELP! I'm off to Rarotonga for 6 days from 28/5/10 (yay!) I need someone with a secure backyard and no dogs who can mind my 2 chooks for me (I will feed them). They need to be kept separate from other chooks (both for potential attacking issues and b
Read more…A recent post has prompted me to thinking I might be able to solve a weed problem at our place by putting the chooks on them! My bantam girls are currently in a run on an old vege plot, digging up weeds and making decent compost - more than earning
Read more…We have a 20 week Barnvelder rooster who is free to a good home. He was hand-reared as his mum died when he was a week old, so he is ridiculously friendly and happy to have cuddles with kids. We are unable to keep a rooster, so sadly have to give him
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Hi, my young girls have just starting laying. The first ones were laying about 10am and then making noises about it. Now one more has started laying but at 5am and making a racket, and the rest have all decided to get in on the early morning laying a
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