One of my 2 year old brown shavers is sick chicken Her symptoms are a bit of diarrohea not eating, not laying, fluffed up, floppy comb and when checking to see if she is egg bound noticed a small red growth on bum and a little pimple. I have her in
Read more…Im designing my first coop and wondering if chicken wire will keep rats out. If so what size mesh and does it need to be buried at the base?
Read more…Hi, where does everyone buy their chook feed from? I've been getting large bags from the petstore, wondered if theres a cheaper better option. ;-)
Read more…Hi, has anyone had success fixing up a chicken that is crop bound? One of my Barnevelders has a squishy bulge in her crop. We have tried feeding her olive oil and massaging the lump. It seemed to go away but today (two days later) it is back.
She is
Hello I'm new to this...I have a question. I have a Brown Shaver, her first night in her new home last night and she laid an odd shell less egg on the grass not in her nest. She's going in to her second season I'm told. Should I be concerned? She wil
Read more…Being the renowned expert on chooks that I am, (I have read a book), i am curious to why there is no such thing as a blue shaver.
Sort of a cross between an Aracuna and a Shaver, with the shavers laying ability (although the aracuna doesn't seem too
Read more…Dad is a Buff orphington, Mothers farmyard mongrels, but the chicks are healthy and appear to have mongrel vigour. I was given the eggs by a friend, as being in town means no roosters. The broody is a neighbours, who I am paying in eggs, - his thre
Read more…Seedsavers are having a garden visit to my garden this Saturday 26 November.
The garden is about 1000²m that has many differnet fruit trees, vegetables and herbs as well as a large number of trees, shrubs and flowers to encourage the beneificail inse
Read more…Hi guys i'm looking into the possibility of getting chickens and am wondering what sort of breds you all have, and what you consider the pros and cons of you breeds. Thanks for the info.
Read more…Hi. I need to step in to take care of a sick chicken. She's in horrid shape and I'm hoping someone can help me identify what's wrong and how I can help her.
Her head is pulled back right into her body and her feathers are fluffed. She's standing stoc
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One of our Wyandottes took a tumble and broke her neck so i need to replace her, as there is no way we would ever eat our chooks i would prefer a light breed that lays well.
I have been looking at Hyline/Shavers, but do they still lay on
Read more…Anyone else raising chicks? I have two broodies sitting at the moment - one is on white leghorn eggs and barnevelder. Just five eggs, she's a small chook. The other chook is even smaller and she's on seven pekin eggs. I can't wait to see what tho
Read more…hope I pick the right group.i am a first time chicken owner.We have not gotten our chicks yet.We bought a premade coop. It will hold about 7 chickens.The coop is a kind of a barn looking coop. with a cage that is attched to the house. .Which we plan
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We have finally got some chickens. We have been scratching our heads trying to think of what to store the chicken feed in. I had thought of a galvanised outdoor bin, but cant fine one anywhere. Any other ideas to keep the rats out? Or do you know
Read more…Does anyone know where I can get a good and clear plan of a chook tractor I can build at home? I have read somewhere it needs about 3 sq metres and have seen a photo of the A-frame tractor with a covered portion and with 2 wheels on one corner.
Read more…Do chickens enjoy being petted? I got my two chickens fairly recently and as adult hens. They've become a lot tamer over the last few months and will eat out of my hand and hang around to 'help' in the garden. Now I wonder if I could get them used to
Read more…Our two beautiful golden-laced wyandottes and one light sussex chooks turned out to be roosters the other day! Hen chicks turning into roosters has been a bit of a saga for us over the last half year. Raewyn at heritagefarmnz.com kindly took the boy
Read more…My beautiful dorking - Tulip - is broody. She is sitting all day - but does get off for a little while if I lift her off. Will she eventually give it up if I leave her to it? Or will I have to do something to stop her broodiness. She has stopped
Read more…Lets start talking about ducks.
Who has duck eggs, ducklings, recipes, troubleshooting, etc.
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