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    Brahmas

    Can anyone offer advise..approximately a month a go I purchased 3 fully gown brahmas, 2 lemon Pyle and one cuckoo. 2of the birds since they arrived have run about and are interested in life(I keep them in a different environment to their previous home) but one bird-one of the Lemon Pyle, keeps...
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    Soft Eggs?

    I'm posting on behalf of a friend - her ladies-Khaki Campbells-I believe, are laying but, they have very soft shells, they are fed layers pellets and have free access to oyster shell? She can't remember how old they are now-I think she has had them possibly 3years? I've read through the other...
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    Broody bantam..is it possible...

    Good afternoon, one of my bantams is broody, I've just read in another post about buying fertilised eggs to hatch but, happy to do so, but she hatches 6 eggs and they all turn out to be males? or would she accept young chicks already sexed to bring up? not sure if the chick thing is possible...
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    When do you call it a sad end

    My dear old Black Rock hen who is at least 9 years old is having difficulty walking, this started on Tuesday morning. Although she has been a bit pottery for a while and aloud to be as she is an old lady now, on Monday night she had obviously fallen on her back during the night, scrabbled about...
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    Bantumn making a noise!

    My little bantumn has started to make noise, it sounds as if she is churping away - as she does - but the noise is continuing to happen when she breathes in and out? almost as if she has a bad cold and can't breath-that sort of noise? difficult to describe a noise. She is fine in herself, chats...
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    Geese help required

    I have just taken on 4 Geese for a while- 1 Gander and his 3 wives. They belong to my brother and have come to me temporarily! They only arrived yesterday - can you tell me how long it be until they are used to me-if at all!! I have them in an enclosure so they can get used to me and my way of...
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