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After all my moaning that hens are never broody when you need one- my lovely girls have proved to be life savers :D I Bought some silkie eggs on Friday and collected some of my poland eggs ready for fertility testing. Turned the incubator on on Fri ready to put the eggs in on Sat and it...

Thought I'd update about my poland who was scratching herself silly around the ears, wobbling about, recovering and then going downhill again. I put some liquid parrafin in her ears as suggested by VP in an earlier thread and she recovered well but then over the bank holiday weekend went...

Here are my new birds- bit of a project I think! Anyone know someone who makes wigs for chickens ;)

I'm getting a quartet of new polands- they look really nice birds but the cockerel has been a bit over amorous and the girls look like they've been scalped :shock: I'll eventually have to find a home for the boy as he is frizzled and so are all my girls so I can't breed with him. Is there...

Hi all, Just wondering how you all get on with eggs which have been posted to you? I've had quite a few posted to me - fertility has sometimes been very good but probably only works out around 60 % over all and the hatch rates are never over 50% and often lower. I have sold and posted some of...

Here is a picture of Hobble taken today- she's looking a lot better and is walking around the garden but is still falling asleep quite a lot - her wing feathers are damaged from when she was using them to balance herself while she was scratching - oh and she's a frizzle like Bobble so the...

One of my polands is driving herself crazy scratching around her ears- she has even made herself bleed and it now looks as though she has excema there? She stands on one leg to do it, then falls over, gets confused and looks like she's having a fit, and gets all muddy rolling about. Her eyes are...

I have a problem regarding delivery of a few chickens to Peterborough (I'm in Pembrokeshire) I have used UKpigeoncouriers before (and they were great!) but they have apparantly stopped delivering chickens to concentrate on the pigeons. I have tried JM couriers (again, very helpful but don't do...

One of my pekins has gone broody and has been for a week or more. She's in the nest box of our main shed which isn't where I'd like her to be! I tried moving her the other day, I put her in a dark box and then into the house part of a smaller run- in the garden and she immediately broke out of...

I have an extremely aggressive legbar cockerel- he's attacked me, my 2 year old and today my OH's face (hence his date with the pot tomorrow!) He was for sale but I'm now not happy for him to go to anyone as he's nasty with people and rough with the hens too- His brother is a complete gent, no...

Hi, Just checking how long eggs can be fertile for once you remove cockerels- At the moment I have 2 cream legbar cockerels and 2 pekin boys in with my pekins and other pullets- The legbar boys are going at the end of the month- When will it be safe to consider the pekin eggs pure pekin...

Hi, Hopefully someone with experience can help me out a bit here- I have two frizzle chamois poland bantam pullets - both of whom I'm keeping and four, 13 week old plain feathered chamois poland cockerels- Can any one give me any pointers in what features to look for in poland cockerels so I...

Hi, I was having a nose around about pekin colours online and came across some described as rare Crele/ Creole. Does anyone know what exact patterns/ colour a creole chicken would be as my cockerel looks suspiciously like one of the pictures I saw- and he's just a lemon cuckoo x blue! - There is...

Hi, I have a surplus of cockerels at the moment and despite trying to rehome them (they're nearly all pure bred birds so was worth a try!) I am left with 2 cream legbars, some pekin x polish, and there may be some others once I have worked out if the youngest birds are pullets or not! :? My...

Here's a few photos of my chickens that I took this morning in beween rain showers- They're an odd bunch but I like them! The one with the chicks is the eldest, and the next eldest started laying a few weeks ago so they're all babies really! :)

Another day, another question! Does anyone have any experience of polish/poland bantams? Are they um well a bit daft? I incubated 6 chamois polish eggs about 8 weeks ago (with some other breeds) and one hatched out- Bobble! She is the funniest, friendliest, oddest creature ever- but ever so...

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone has used an automatic pop hole opener and how well they have worked? I keep my chickens at my partner's parents farm- I currently have 10 pekins there and some growers in my back garden. The pekins currently have a large chicken shed and a fox proof covered...

I have had a few chickens over the years but hatched out my first brood (with an incubator) 5 weeks ago- I had 12 pekins and all were healthy. About a week ago I noticed one of the smaller ones had developed a bit of a "wobble" when she walked- often going over to one side, and her wing dropped...