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    Just hatched 7 Brahmas.........

    I think 6 of them are pullets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it? They are now 6 weeks old, various colours and growing like mad. They were from a mixed flock of pure bred Brahmas, on ebay with 100% and loads of sales. They are interesting colour wise, black mix, white mix and a...
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    Blue egg day

    My one and only complaint about eggs sellers on ebay has just happened. Went to let the girls out and see if there were any eggs, and there was a blue one. I suspected that the hens I was raising were not purebred Leghorns as advertised but hybrids that would produce blue eggs - not what you...
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    Nouns becoming verbs....................

    i.e. "gifting!................... we really are destroying our lovely language, don't you think?
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    1st egg from little 'uns

    Got an egg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My oldest baby Croad has laid an egg, just a lovely mid brown one, no signs of a plum blush.
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    Croads, black and white

    I have been quietly hatching both bantams and LF since my latest loss in May of this year, I have managed 2 white croads and 3 black, I did not realise how stunning the white ones were never having seen one, only photos. They have the most beautiful slate legs, they are so pretty. With the...
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    Utility white Leghorns - 19 weeks old

    My two lovely girls have each presented me with an egg! One is long and thin and the other is round and fat, the eggs, not the pullets. It was a lovely surprise. Love those girls to bits, they are so lively and noisy, but very pettable.
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    Utility white Leghorns - 19 weeks old

    My two lovely girls have each presented me with an egg! One is long and thin and the other is round and fat, the eggs, not the pullets. It was a lovely surprise. Love those girls to bits, they are so lively and noisy, but very pettable.
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    Very pleased to report..........

    3 very large Croad eggs yesterday, and that my 3 growers, are doing just that. My purebred white Leghorn utility pullets are lovely and slim and lively. The blue egg layer, another purebred is also growing apace she does appear a fearful creature though, very nervous and timid. I will...
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    Silkies are bantams, but do they come in 2 sizes?

    I believed that Silkies are one of the few true bantams, but I keep seeing ads for miniature Silkies in the ebay eggs for sale section. Can some very kind soul enlighten me on this subject please?
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    A cockerel?

    I have 3 purebred white Leghorn chicks. Until a couple of days ago all were seemingly identical. THEN one has developed distinctive bigger and redder comb and wattles. Am I right in thinking the obvious, this is a boy?
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    my eight babies...........

    ..................are all well, and thriving and outside. Looks as if there may be 3 boys and 5 girls, 3 have redder crest and wattle bits so far. The offer stands when they are older that if any one on the forum wants one they are most welcome, I cannot do forum photos but later will take...
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    8 newcomers

    My Silkie Lottie yesterday hatched 8 little Lottie/Pierres, dad is my lemon cuckoo Pekin. I will be interesting to see how different they will be from each other, and if there are many differences. Both are lovely birds, and if anyone on the forum feels the need they are welcome to have one of...
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    3 beautiful 12 week pullets (hybrid) good homes needed

    I have these three girls, 12 weeks old, hatched and raised together, lovely natures, well grown and very pretty, but after my accident, I feel I must cut the number of girls I can sensibly keep. They are free to a loving home. Anyone on the Forum is very welcome to them, one or all of them...
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    Chicken "walker" needed, please.

    Is there anyone else who lives in Camberley on the forum? and can you look to my hens for a few days, please? If you can private message me we can discuss payment.
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    Hospital break..................

    Hello everyone have you missed me? I've been in St George's hospital in London with a very nasty broken leg for 3 weeks and just been discharged. Fell down 3 stairs at home which resulted in both tibia and fibia broken, and bells and whistles to Frimley Park, then on, to London for plastics and...
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    Japanese quails

    I have just sent for 12 Japanese quail eggs, mixed colours, I wondered, what do you feed them, how long to they take to hatch, the eggs will be going in my Brinsea Octagon 20 eco, at what temperature? Do they fly, and can they be garden tamed easily like chickens? do the boys crow, Iv'e...
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    My Silkie needs hen school

    One of the lovely surprises of late last year were my two Silkies, hatched from supposedly Pekin eggs from ebay. There were three actually, one was a huge black boy an absolutely friendly and sweet natured lad who had to go, sadly. Thy have been laying for a few months now, and I'm sure one of...
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    Light Sussex pullet with extended chest

    I have three girls, six and a half weeks, all lovely, feathered well grown for their age, all from the same clutch of eggs, and with huge appetites. One has a huge floppy chest that would extend to frigate bird proportions if inflated. She seems well and the chest does not seem to bother her...
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    Rhode Island Reds

    Does anyone else on the forum have RIRs? If my assessment of them is correct, I think they are the dumbest birds I have ever come across! Beautiful, healthy and well grown. They cannot make it up the little ramp to bed perch and start shouting when it starts to get dark. Every other chick I...
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    Millefleur cockerel 10 weeks free to good home

    This little boy is very beautiful, and before I send him to his maker I thought anyone who needs a new Pekin cockerel might like to give this boy a chance of a good life. He is positively glowing with health and his markings are quite stunning, he also has lovely thick feathers making him look...
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