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my run is about 33ft by 26 ft i think so its pretty large and i am really thinking about putting heavy duty tarpaulin over the top of it above the netting thats already there as i am getting annoyed with the run being muddy a lot but is this a good idea or not ?? , i had a bad case of red mite...

do polish bantams cockerals crow really loud or are they quite quiet ?? i may very well of ended up with one and boys are a total no go zone for our allotment site thing is i dont and wont part with it if its a boy i am more then in love with my little polish's . i had a bit of a crisis and...

i always thought i was keeping everything as clean as poss but i wasnt :( i decided to go plastic with my coops and i have converted 3 of those large storage bins so far so good but i also brought a very pretty little wooden coop which is ideal for 6 of my girls but as i went to convert the...

2 of my girls are not to good so they are shut away in quantine there are no syptoms of anything they are just dull an sad , well this after noon after some dodgy poos one of the girls laid the yolk and bit of white minus the shell about 10 mins later out popped a very gross looking lash egg...

i have 2 week old chicks in a home made broody box which is about 12 -14 inches high { made from raised stacking cubes for cargo from airport i think each cube is 6 inches high but i have put one on top of each other ] and the lamp sits about an 1 inch above the roof is this to high have just...

i have one lone chick with a broody mum at the mo and i was worrying about her being on her own when she comes of mum but i have managed to find someone very local to me who has chicks hatching this weekend but they are polish bantams , i will collect them when they are a week old and keep them...

how long does it take or should i say how long could it take for a bird to stop feeling broody ??

think i am going to stick to rescuing ex batts in the future , lsat years hatching with a broody went ok and i got 2 chicks out of 4 eggs as 2 were not fertile but this year :( :( :( nothing , hatched one lot and all 3 chicks pretty much died right away am thinking its cause mum had 2 many...

i am a little worried about my chicken houses { 1 wendy house , 1 a 6'4 shed } as they get a little damp with the rain going though the seams of the shiplap wood even though they have been painted few then a few times anyway i was looking online about treating chicken houses from bad weather and...

its now 23 days and my broody is still sitting on the last 3 remaining eggs which may be fertile when i shall i take them away from her i have read that it can go up to 28 days .part of me wants to take them away now but the other part doesnt :-)05

2 of the 6 eggs hatched during the night and both chicks were dead this morning :( :( :( one yellow and one black both where totally formed i'm so gutted an sad , mum had moved the remaining 4 away from the dead chicks and shes still sitting on them but i wont be able to check her now until...

my eggs are due to hatch tomorw they have been under my maran for the almost 21 days approx sooooooooooooo cant wait for tomorw afternoon :D :D :D could have 6 chickies :D i dont know what breed they are as my friends birds just roam the farm with the cockerals so they could be any breed...

i feel really really really bad :( :( an sick to tell you the truth , tonight i was cleaning the run and snapping of small bits of sycamore saplings which are growing out of the tree stumps within the run i had already locked the girls away into the extension but some saplings were growing...

i want to convert a plastic large storage bin into a hen house { seen it done on another site and it looks good } am hoping to do it over the next day or so would it be ok to move my maran whos sitting on eggs or shall i wait tell they have hatched thats if they were fertile ? the rabbit hutch i...

one of my ex batts had stopped eating about 3 or 4 days ago but she wasnt showing an spytoms of any illness she just went dull and sad so this morning after giving her just a few days to see if she would pick up i examined her and she wasnt egg bound but she did have a massive lump just inside...