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    Burrying eggs??

    That's so coooool!!!!!!
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    Burrying eggs??

    Me too! My theory is the straw helped insulate and many successive layers kept them warm. Possibly the hen hiding them (to build a clutch maybe?) was a slightly broody night nester or just a naughty hen sleeps in the nest box anyway! Interested as I found one buried in straw and my hen looks...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I knelt in chicken poo (accidentally of course) and ruined my light blue fluffy track pants! 😳🤣
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    How much run space for 10 medium/large breed chickens?

    The alternative is to build a portable movable play yard in your paddock for daytime free ranging. This can be done with old farm gates and chicken wire scraps and star pegs-pickets. We move it every 2 months. My sister has a portable fence and does the same but hers is easier and lighter to...
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    Help! Snakes!

    Sometimes chickens kill snakes and they will always alert you to the whereabouts. Below we have an Australian Eastern Bandy Bandy near my husbands boot- killed by "Hero"-our rooster.
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Yes- those and the moulting adults mean no pretty pics here!!
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    Vent sexing - pictures please

    Oh darn it. Thanks! 😂
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    Rehome One Rooster or Two?

    Adding a rooster was the best choice I made- but only nice ones! And if the girls like him too- it's a win! Plus not all Alphas are all that Alpha. They have to woo and ask permission. The good ones are real sweethearts. Keep the nice one and see is what I recommend.
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    Vent sexing - pictures please

    I have a 4.5 week old chick sussex that is now showing male signs when all else said female at hatch. So I'd like to try at this age and see for myself. I think the descriptions people have given a very helpful including the images. It's always a case of the More descriptions and images you see...
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    Borrowing a rooster for temporary fertilization?

    It's not impossible to borrow a rooster and trigger broodiness. Just be ready to incubate eggs and raise in a brooder if mama hen doesn't want to
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    I agree- she is!!
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    Dealing with a Goanna

    Fox Loxy came instead. I keep finding half eaten plastic eggs and golf balls in weird places where the goanna took them away and gave a crunch or two to try them! It's so funny to find them! The never ending tale- oop- there's another one!!
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    Help to ID the breed of pure bred striped wing chick? Possible Sussex?

    PS. He is only 6 weeks in the photo
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    Help to ID the breed of pure bred striped wing chick? Possible Sussex?

    Updated photos. Comments and thoughts please?
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    Help to ID the breed of pure bred striped wing chick? Possible Sussex?

    I agree and I knew he may have been a Light Sussex instead. However, he now has a clear head tuft (white), smoother dotted feathers underneath, ear muffs and a little beard (which is not so unusual). No feathers on feet. I have no idea about what he is or crossed with! Makes him hard to sell or...
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I don't keep all food out always. Usually it's the main pellets only. Treats when I get up. If I see any mice or rats I won't even leave that. Instead I will feed only a portion- what they can eat in the morning and again in the afternoon. Treats are always by hand and while being called or...
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    How wonderful! Thank you for the update! What a blessing!
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    Hen Fashion Show

    Regal!
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    Hen Fashion Show

    What a cute name too!
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    I am so amazed that you saved her!!! She has to live!! By the way, you will have wiser chickens now and their babies will be well taught about predators too! I had a giant eagle experience so I know how scared your others are. Thank God you saved her!
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