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Just got this bird, and have noticed this weird extra claw. Is it an issue? What should i do about it? Thanks for your help. [/IMG]

Hi, thanks for your help. I can't figure out what this young lady is. She was pick'N'mixed from a farm, and the guy couldn't tell me what they were, but I liked the look of her. She's also got a funny back claw I didn't spot, I'll ask about that in the correct thread.

Hello, I've done a lot of reading and tried it all... now I'm stuck. We've got 6 young pullets, one is POL. And has been a good girl laying an egg everyday now for 2-3 weeks. But Victoria will never lay in the nesting box. Instead she chooses the floor in the shavings. It's nice purpose...

We've got two RIRs in our flock. Both have gone broody and we've had 7 healthy birds from them. One has been laying for about 2 weeks, and today has gone broody AGAIN. Get some more eggs? Is this normal to be recurrently broody? Any tricks for breaking the brood? We tried persistently kicking...

We've had great fun using our broody RIRs to hatch some eggs, even took them to school in a box for the kids... great fun. Questions though. 1. When do you typically seperate the chicks from mum (if at all?). We're hatching the eggs for a friend who's starting a coop and will take them as...

Hi there, looking for tips and tricks. I've had a nosy around the blogs and so far scaring them back seems to be the only solution when the girls roam too far. Our 3 birds (one's broody right now) are getting out over the coop (first thing to be remedied) and ranging further than they're...

I'm keen to try this stuff in my coop, but appart from it being a component of kitty litter i can't find it. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks

We got 2 RIRs in early December, and were told they were about 12 weeks old. Now they're big beauties, kinda scatty, and not a single egg. Our other 3 are off the lay and just recovering from their molt. Do chickens get in sync like girls at a boarding house? I got them out of cycle to try and...

Aggressive,Friendly,Flighty,Easily handled,Calm,Noisy is how they were described... Kinda hard to know. Anyway, ours are being picked on (they're approx 3months old) by the older ladies. And each night all the roosts have been knocked down and the poor things are lying on the floor being...

Quick question. I read somewhere in the www that chickens "won't walk far to get water, and that you needed to make water available" I have 4 birds currently, and ample water in their "free range run", but I'm about to let them into a shrub bed for summer to get them some shade, and a new...

I've just inherited two 3yr old Shavers (NZ egg hen) and got 2 Barnevelder Pullets (about 18 weeks) just this weekend. Really enjoying the chooks, and we've given them our vege garden to free range in over winter and in summer they'll get a couple of the garden beds with weeds to uproot and...