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Fed up with the cold and confinement, Blaze decided to throw caution to the wind... and moult her eyebrows.

My bantam lad has started crowing a lot more. Sensing the days are lengthening already I suppose. Trouble is, he's not waiting till the morning. I think its when our neighbour behind turns on their bathroom light although there has also been a bright moon the past couple of nights so I've made...

Hi all. Hope you had a good X-mas! Betty laid a little blue egg on the day - first one for 3 months and was one egg short for the Yorkshire puddin's. Teabag is moulting. Silly girl!

I have found this dispenser thing to be very good for dropping some scratch etc in the run during the day and keeping them on their toes. Its made of a cheap mains timer with a short length of drain pipe hot melt glued to the moving ring. A free-standing screen or two are also useful as they...

Since the one off a couple of months ago... Blaze laid the most perfect egg I've ever had this morning! She's picked a funny time to do it :) .... closely followed by the weirdest egg I have ever had!

Just wondered if anyone had a take on this. Have sent an enquiry to the manufacturer but no response as yet. The label seems to be wrong: 4g (a scoop) per 200ml in water. - Mine are currently drinking only about 100ml each so would be getting about 2g/bird/day. 100mg (0.1g or a 'pinch') per...

Black and runny (I'm imagining like thin black watercolour paint?) sounds peculiar. Can you post a picture? Mine have produced small black/brownish pellet like bits in clear watery poop when they have had egg laying issues (but that typically had some yellow bits too) and normal but very black...

Had my first go at nail clipping this afternoon. My bantam cock (Linden) was most in need of it - don’t get to see his toes very often under the feathers. They were starting to get long enough to curl on the soft bedding. My little CLB's nails were a little long too (Betty.) All the others...

Your coop must be on built on a 'ley-line' Marigold! :) The pale, slightly greenish poops were back again this morning and they do have what looks like bits of feather case in them. Not 100% sure they were from Betty though as I didn’t think she was roosting in that position last night. Still...

That's really interesting Chris and maybe explains the odd poops earlier this week. She's had new feathers coming through where they've been missing around her preen gland for a while. I left the camera in today to see what's going on and if she wasn’t eating before she is now! Spent a good...

Hi everyone, I'm a bit worried about my CLB Betty at the moment because she seems to be starving herself during a moult. They have all been on Flubenvet since Tuesday. Both Betty and Blaze have had near empty crops every time I have checked although Blaze is the heaviest she has ever been but...

With the clocks just about to go back and keen not to expose the hens to lights that will mess up a natural rest from laying I've been reading a lot of commercial lighting documents (mostly Hy-line and Once.) Finding it very humorous (in a geeky sort of way) that 'Lux', that is the human unit...

Ooh Marigold, I feel I must parry the insinuation :) To be fair a good 90% of these are Carol's with a scattering of trees, myths and prehistory that are mine, and that all time classic 'Logic Gates and Flip Flops' of course! The Gita Metha is mine and I keep meaning to read that Patrick Ness...

According to Twitter today was national egg day. And here it is! They should have called it national eggs day!

Gave the chooks a saucer of warm tea this evening. Its so funny how they get a beak full and really seem to savour it before getting another.

What you need Marigold is the GPS ChikTrak (unfortunately, the output below was after 5 minuets) :)

It's a tenuous link for the poultry forum I know! But just wanted to say how inspiring and captivating this mission has been - well done ESA Rossetta! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37520420

And in conclusion... Teabag laid an egg first thing this morning (it was there before I went to work.) Then Blaze spent an hour and a half on the nest. ~~~ Betty spent a couple of hours in the afternoon sitting on the nest with Blaze and Teabag checking on her several times. (maybe Teabag...

I've ordered some Ivemectin today (the 'Petlife Harkers' link on Tim's lice page here) because I've been fighting an up down battle with lice on Linden (the Sablepoot cock.) On the whole my experience agrees with Chrismahon's recent comments that its not necessary but this bantam lad has such...