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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    Please read previous posts. I’d locked them in during the day also to get them used to the coop being home/roost. So they needed food and water to be locked in for a few days. It’s not my usual practice! I’ve kept poultry 40 years. Never had to catch pullets for this long to get them used to...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    It has just been a normal peck, get out the way type. Nothing terrible. Taking the food and water away isn’t an option when it’s so warm. Although it was obviously pointless giving it to them anyway as they just wanted an indoor swimming pool!! It was getting warm in there too which is another...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    I do have one I could have put in. I was watching them through the little air vent window. The older girls were giving the pullets a peck, nothing horrendous. The pullets were just all panicking flapping about. Then they’d settle. A older hen would move to drink for example and the pullets would...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    I have 20ft of perch space then. With only 3 older hens and a roo who all roost on the top perch one end. The pullets don’t even need to go near them. They are all med breeds. Hybrids from my barred Plymouth Rock and a few cream leg bars. I’ve caved and let them out. They kept knocking the...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    I’ve thrown my toys out the pram tonight and locked them in with food and water. I spent ages today making a small pen around the coop. Then the blinking goose and one of my ducks tried to walk through and got in a jam!! Really lucky I was there. It was so tight too but they walk into it...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    This is the field. Green is the coop, blue the brooding pens. I have shut the gate to the brooding pens fenced area to stop them going in that part. The brooding pens have a separate fenced grass area. I’m currently putting poultry netting around the coop. Not ideal as had a duck die years ago...
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    No it doesn’t but thinking I should put poultry netting around it and keep them all in that close to the coop. The fields a fair size.
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    If I put them in earlier the little devils shoot out. Not only that if there’s any daylight left I can’t catch them. They’ll eat out my hand yet try to get them and it’s game over. Unless I get them all in the chick pen and corner them. Hate stressing them out so much.
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    No it’s not. It’s an old piggery stone building with a very large walk in mesh pen attached. I use it for brooding. Chickens in one, turkeys in another. It’s bigger than my coop so guessing they aren’t happy at downsizing 🤣
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    Fed up of pullets refusing to go in coop!

    Im at my wits end with the 12 hens I hatched this year. Now 15 weeks old. For 3 weeks since letting them out into the field with the rest of the flock, I’ve been catching them after dark to put them in. They keep going back to the chick pen and sitting outside on the grass or hose reel. I’ve...
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    Sick to death of mycoplasma

    It was a reputable breeder big shop in my neck of the woods. Proper registered business.
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    Sick to death of mycoplasma

    The place I bought them from was a reputable breeder dealer full blown poultry shop big company. They told me after that they don’t vaccinate the pure breeds only the hybrid hens. So no flea market back yard breeder or anything of the sort. A well known place in my neck of the woods UK who over...
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    Sick to death of mycoplasma

    Anyone have the same? Many many years ago I bought two new hens from a local shop and as always quarantine them. After I introduced them they got sick and so did the rest of my flock. Turned out the two new ones were mycoplasma positive. Ever since then it rears it’s head now and then especially...
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    Scalped duck injury

    Drying up and scabbing up nicely. Still looks terrible but it’s healing slowly. Both eyes are normal now.
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    River system incubator any good?

    I bought myself the next step up in the end a Rcom kingsuro Max 20
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