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I went to pick up the eggs today and there was a tiny little dark brown egg in the middle of one of the nesting boxes.... It was literally about 1 1/2 inches in height. We do have bantams and I have had their eggs before but they are a cream colour this is dark brown darker than any of my Maran...

Hi all. We have a broody hen and would love some coloured egg laying chicks so any available hatching eggs to buy would be most appreciated! Looking forward to our new chicks....... Sheryl x

Hi all. Hope you share my excitment..... Yesterday we went outside to move our broody as it was 26 days and no chicks... And can you imagine our faces when we lifted her and a little black chick was staring back at us!!!! We separated her from the others put her in a separate pen with her mother...

I have got a broody hen.... Henrick. She is sat on eggs on a shelf in the main nesting house and really want to move her to a safe place. I have a rabbit hutch and am trying to move her but every time we put her on the nest with her eggs she is desperate to get back to her original nest in the...

Thanks everyone. Here are some pics she is so so cute!!

Hi all I have a new lady to add to our family..... She is beautiful but I am unsure of her breed. She is only young although I think she looks like a picture I have seen on line of a gold laced wyandotte hen although she has feathers on her legs. She is a really big bird already although only...

Hi All I have got 29 gorgeous ladies.... and have never seen any foxes in the area... although somebody told me they spotted a fox not too far away so am now looking at protecting my girls... I was looking at an automatic door that closes in dusk and opens in day light is this the best thing to...

Hi all we have approx 25 lovely ladies and have introduced 3 leghorns to our flock. We have managed to persuade 2 of the newbies into the big house where the others all perch and sleep but we have one really stubborn girl who hides in the trees somewhere and sleeps there. We have tried to find...

Hi all. We have a secret massive egg layer!!!! We aquired another 11 birds a couple of months ago to take our total 26 and every couple of days we get a huge egg!!!! And I mean huge!!! It's double the size of a normal egg and we have no idea who is laying it but today it was very light nearly...

Hi we got these chicks about 8 weeks ago and are unsure of their age and just wondered if you very clever people could help me determine whether we have boys or girls? I am thinking 3 boys :cry: and one girl :D but am definately no expert. Am desperate for Dorothy to be a girl she is so...

Hi all I have just been given a couple of beautiful sebright bantoms and they are gorgeous! Just wondered if anyone had any tips as they look so much smaller than my other hens just wondered if I needed to do anything different... what treats they like etc? They are approx 12 weeks old Many...

Hi I would like to buy some blue egg laying hens I live in lancashire but can go to merseyside cheshire and surrounding areas. I will be willing to travel a bit of a distance to find my hens!!! Preferably point of lay or younger Kind Regards Sheryl

Hi I have just been given 3 new chickens Cream lagbars They are beautiful and they came in a group of 3 apparently they were sexed and we were told it was one cock and 2 hens they are approx 6 weeks from point of lay although when I saw them one is grey (the cock) and 2 brown orange and grey but...

:( I had 5 ex batts and a cockrell then 6 weeks ago we introduced an older rhode island red and 6 chicks then over the next couple of weeks 4 more hens. As this was happening the ex batts stopped laying and one of them has been losing feathers on her back and has lost quite a few now also...

I have 5 ex battery hens that used to lay approx 3 or 4 eggs a day up until a couple of weeks ago when we introduced a new hen some chicks and last week 4 new point of lay hens. Unfortunately the ex bats seem to be sulking and have stopped laying! I only get one egg from them a day. Could this...