Recent content by KittyKat

Hi all, I was just wondering what you candle your eggs with? The OvaView looks like the most practical product available but £25/£40 + £23 for the OvaScope seems excessive, in line with other Brinsea products. I was previously using a lava lamp bottom inside a small cardboard box with a round...

Hello all, quite a sad update this time. The bigger of the two cockerels was taken by some animal a couple of nights ago so. Whatever it was managed to undo the latch on the coop so they have been moved into the bigger coop with the other hens now (it has a sliding latch rather than a rotating...

The gammy-legged girl became chicken soup today as the others will be moving outside tomorrow morning and she would have been unable to get into the coop for the night. At 14 weeks, she weighed 1.2 kg with an empty crop which isn't bad considering how she was always the smallest and she had been...

As of a few days ago, the chickens have been going from the lounge into the conservatory during the day. The daytime temperatures in the conservatory have varied from about 12°C to 17°C as opposed to the 16°C to 22°C that they have had in the lounge. Last night, they stayed out there overnight...

We have been feeding our chickens Marriage's organic pellets and corn for almost as long as we had them. We started the ex-battery hens on crumb as per recommendation, but turned out that they were more interested in food than what form it came in, and I've used the Marriage Flubenvet medicated...

Hi all, back in warm September I was about to set my first eggs for hatching and had some questions about incubators. Marigold reminded me that it would be a good idea to follow up on that hatch (which I am usually very lazy about) and I think it might be good for me to give some background for...

I just saw Chris mention in a different topic about separating cockerels into a small pen as early as possible to restrict movement so that they are most tender for eating. I am wondering if there is anything else that others do to prepare the excess cockerels? What is the optimum age for...

I have my fingers crossed for a hatch on Thursday, which leads me to a feeding question. I have raised two lots of chicks so far and my last lot of chicks picked up coccidiosis when they were relatively young, which resulted in poor growth (so they are smaller than the first lot of chick was at...

The air in the house (around the incubator) currently has 60% humidity while outdoors, it is around 90-100% (daily fogs, pretty much solid walls of water, grass wet for the whole day even in full sun shine and so on). When I first tested the fan-assisted incubator prior to starting the...

Hi all, I've been keeping chickens for a few years now and have been lurking around the forum for a while so I thought it was about time to register. I currently keep ex-battery hens, Norfolk Greys and Wyandottes, and I am expecting some Light Sussex hatching eggs today. The ex-battery hens...