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Having extended my run for the bantams and made provision for a quarantine area within that run- I have decided it is time to get new stock for next year so today me and the wife are off to Mantel Farm near Battle in Sussex to get another 3 hybrids. Only started keeping chickens 4 years ago and...

Hatched around 10th May and they followed the wife home when they were about 7 days old. Mum and her 6 chicks are doing well and just beginning to lose the scruffy look of the down moult. Only two cocks out of the 6 and one is beginning show who's boss-- till the other one shows him who is...

For the last week I have been extending the run for the bantams.When the weather and wife have allowed- I have been working solid all week to get it finished. Well the run is done- Coup still needs finishing touches but tonight we put the bantams in their new run in their old coop. Gonna be fun...

Just on 4 weeks old and still got 6 lively little bundles that are looking tatty now. Think we may have 2 cockerels and 4 hens and for that I am going by the combs. Two have a prominent comb that only looks like an orange streak from the beak rearwards and the others have nothing showing yet...

The enlarging of the chicken run is in the planning stage right now due to the Bantam brood of mum and 6 chicks that followed the wife home. They are currently living in the quarantine coop and run but they will get better accommodation. Run extension is planned and they will be kept in a...

Asked the person that gave us the brood what the mother is and I am none the wiser now. Apparently she is Japanese Bantam X Belgian Blue Ba'Buccle Still none the wiser but some of you may know the parentage or correct what I have probably misheard. Just in case any of you have better ideas...

Wife went shopping today and these followed her home Bantam hen and 6 chicks. Chicks seem to have two different marking patterns and 3 of each. Both colours are in the pic. She went to see a friend at a nursery and these were "FreeRange" on the nursery. The owner offered them to the wife and...

I started feeding my birds Mash when I first got them as that was the feed they were on before I got them. I got fed up with the waste and changed over to pellets. Saved a fortune and I reckoned I was buying about half the amount of feed. When I built the new run with a covered roof I got a...