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What an eventful day. Five new chicks ! Will make a huge shift for the allotment small crew. I wonder if you saved the little late chick because you are getting softer with time, or if you feel that the circumstances in which you are now keeping chickens are so different, that they require shift...

That's good ! Are you thinking of looking for work in management facility in the future or was it things you wanted to learn for your own use ? I was thinking maybe you didn't have enough on your hands with Fret's chicks coming 😁. I am sure the chickens will find good use for the extension...

I'm sad to know Chirk is gone, but it feels right. I personally feel like you took the kinder choice to give it a try. I don't think we should only tend to wounds, sickness, disease, when the outcome is certain. And it was also wise to know that the time had come to end his life. I also hope...

I hope that one person's opinion did not succeeded to hurt your feelings. While I may not always agree or understand how you see things, I think calling Dig's life cruel is ignorance. Too bad there has been some talk about the allotment politics on this thread ; because sharing it with some...

I certainly agree that it must indeed be rare if people like you and Molpet who have had a life time experience with chickens never saw it. Pure speculation from my part, but suppose there is link between an adult male's rotten behaviour with the hens and being aggressive with the chicks. Most...

I'm so sorry you had to go through this, especially after loosing Joël. And I also believe you did what you had to do in your circumstances. :hugs To challenge a bit this idea of "normal" roosters not being a threat for chicks, and let you know Samuel wasn't an exception, I would like to...

Thank you for taking the time to explain. I may not like some of it, but I understand the reasoning. It's obviously not your case, and I feel not that of most people who comment on this thread, but I can't help being shaken by how quick some BYC members will be to take the freezer camp solution...

That is why I asked several days ago if you thought it was due to his personality, to the settings, or both. You could eventually question whether it's possible to have a cockerel coexist with his aging father in the circumstances you have to deal with, before letting another hen hatch...

Hopefully someone with a scientific background can explain it better than I, but I think that permethrin is a chemical reproduction of natural pyrethrin. So they may well work in the same kind of manner and permethrin is also deadly to cats. In fact, the number of substances cats can not process...

If you haven't already done it, maybe you can call the wild bird hospital to ask - here wild life centers often have procedures for people who find injured animals. While I am not sure that was exactly what we were taught Ned Ludd always appeared as some kind of hero for me as a teen. How...

I think the girls look like punk fashion is making a comeback ! I have an anecdote about unwanted cockerels. It ends with a meal, so some of you may find it gruesome and prefer not to read it. I wasn't sure myself what to think. I live in a very rural small village of 130 people, that has...

I have way too many red peppers from our garden, and also a bad worm issue in my flock and environment. I'd be interested to try giving the chickens some but I'm not sure how to translate dosage from flakes, or capsaicin mg, to whole dry peppers, need to do a bit more reading. We have loads...

Talking about rooster hate, this one is hard to believe but it seems to have a happy ending - what can humans do. Thank you for clarifying. I understand and I think I share your point of view. I still wonder if that "un-cricket" behaviour isn't something triggered by confinement. (Not that it...

I agree whole heartedly. I did not watch the video... Confusing ignorance for stupidity and making fun of it is not intelligent in my opinion 😊. Knowledge is necessary for people to take educated decisions but it is not what makes them intelligent. Or good people either. She is stunning ...

He's one year old and it's coming to be spring. He is at the worse of hormonal surge. Hopefully a few more months will make a huge difference in his way of mating. It's not 100% certain, especially if the hens are not cooperative. Does he still behave like this with the hens who crouch for him ...

Has the idea of having this lone hen join the allotment crew crossed your or that person's mind ?

Thanks to reading this thread, I just discovered we are supposed to declare our poultry too in France since 2006 😂. Although the decree is slightly ambiguous if this concerns the whole country or only region under Avian Flu alert. I can just imagine the look of the people at the town hall if I...

Thank you for the advice on the SLM and the detailed explanations, (and also for the info on the spurs). Thank you for sharing about your friend's rooster. It's both reassuring and edifying when there is a solution that just needs for the keeper to agree to make some adjustments to his habits...

Léa got a 100% hatch last spring with the six neighbour's eggs we gave her. I'm sure the neighbour, who's almost 80, did not do anything fancy like turn the eggs or check at what temperature he kept them. And I know that three of the eggs were from the same hen so they were laid on three...

I'm not sure I understand, what would you say was the error ? Letting them to sort it out all on their own ? To me it seems a good thing that you have found a way to make roost time routine more peaceful, because it's certainly a moment when tensions can become exacerbated. Are you still in the...