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  1. BDutch

    i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

    People with only a couple of chickens often aren’t sure about the right thing. Some follow the rules, some do the same as usual. We all make very different choices. One thing I know for sure. I don’t trust the authorities in making the right choices for hobbyists/ my flock. They tend to listen...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Good looking fellows! I thought you only had Nestera coops. Now I wonder: “what kind a building is this?”
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    One of my flock grabbed at a chick

    Australia? Very handy to put this in your Account details. I understand everything is okay now! Must be a relief. 😅
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    One of my flock grabbed at a chick

    I didn’t read the whole thread. But space an territory are probably 2 important issues here. If you want to raise chicks, you need to way more space than minimal requirements, and be able to arrange the space in a way the hens that aren’t broody are not disturbed too much in their usual habits...
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    Why you only need one nest box

    ...Hens work together to build a nest. Their goal is to maintain the flock. Not that you eat their offspring. If there are enough eggs, a normal* hen will go broody and wants to hatch a clutch off eggs. It's more convenient if the eggs aren't scattered around. If I want a hen to go broody, I...
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    Now I remember when my mother used a drop of dishwasher soap for hand washing. She had tableware with a gold edge that would faint in the dishwasher with the dishwasher tablets.
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    Open Contest Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    It made me wonder why people want to have chickens that don’t resemble chickens.
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    My mother used dishwasher soap too sometimes. But she only added 1 or 2 drops, to prevent a foam burst. She never had any problems doing so. Probably read it somewhere as a tip to save money, if the dishes weren’t very dirty.
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    What is wrong with my chicken?

    Don’t confuse laying hybrids in industrial factory farming with laying hybrids as backyard chickens. Isa browns who die at about 2 yo as byc are an exception. The ones who are kept for industrial egg production had a real miserable life and are less healthy when they get into their first moult...
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    What is wrong with my chicken?

    Its good for the chickens health to take a break in egg production every year. Autumn is a natural time hens stop laying and start to moult. Chickens that start to moult are not fit. Diarrhoea is not a strange reaction. It takes a lot of energy to grow their feathers back. Best not give any...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Do you remember I told about the cheap new pop door I bought previously this year? It has no strings to chew on. The one I bought won't do for your resilient dark female rat for sure, but I know there are aluminium doors too with the same mechanism. Chickenguard has new auto-pop doors too with...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    … , deleted this post bc I posted it twice after a WIFI hickup
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    Rats? A Cat? Something Else? What killed my chickens?

    :hugsSorry for your losses. The rats are probably very hungry bc they no longer have access to food. A hungry rat can take a sleeping/resting chicken down at night to eat from her. The injuries are not what I would expect from a member of the weasel family. A new rat-proof coop to roost...
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    Seagulls in the scottish highlands!

    I dont get a clear picture of your problem and your set up/how you feed the chickens. What is the problem you want to solve? Stealing food you scatter in the run: Avian influenza protection? Can you make a few photos and upload them here? Maybe there is a possibility to make a feed...
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    Open Contest Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Great name for a Belgian breed.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Other possibility is live trap cages. If you got her, you can take her home to release her in in the bus in Bristol. See what happens next.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Now I’d really like to see your whiskers Mother of Chaos!
  18. BDutch

    Topic of the Week - What do/can you do with unwanted roosters?

    Grenouille - coq au vin… Are you or your ancestors French? 🇫🇷 Of just a fan of the French cuisine?
  19. BDutch

    i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

    Mine shift their feed preferences too. They eat less chick crumble now and more layer pellets. Strange bc none of them lay eggs at the moment. I never check their crops. Chickens surely know when they need food. Feed is available 24/7. I give mixed grains and a few mealworms before or around...
  20. BDutch

    Trouble re introducing my hen to her old flock

    This last part is not my experience. Not for all flock members. Chickens have their personal preferences even after a problem is solved. All my chickens are flock members. None avoid certain other flock members and they are a great team in foraging and such during the day. Some background...
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