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Does anyone else on the forum have RIRs? If my assessment of them is correct, I think they are the dumbest birds I have ever come across! Beautiful, healthy and well grown. They cannot make it up the little ramp to bed perch and start shouting when it starts to get dark. Every other chick I...

This little boy is very beautiful, and before I send him to his maker I thought anyone who needs a new Pekin cockerel might like to give this boy a chance of a good life. He is positively glowing with health and his markings are quite stunning, he also has lovely thick feathers making him look...

My 14 week old lemon (ish) but purebreed Pekin has been laying daily for the last 5 days, one of them was a double yolker, can anybody beat that? The eggs are so tiny, lovely colour, very strong shells, and Floss, her 4 year old human mum, had 2 for her breakfast this morning which when fried...

Has anyone any ideas about how to keep Gloria amused, short of being in my pocket with portable water and food, I have no idea what to do for her welfare?. She is now eight days old and bright and pushy the 4 - 5 week old Pekins would have her for dinner I think, and have no idea how to quickly...

Can a broody hen feel movement in the eggs when they are a few days into development?. I love candling eggs to see what is developing and have often wondered if the hen with her plucked (usually) tum and sensititivity can feel the movement of the embryo as and when it is developing. Some...

Has anybody else discovered this marvellous bedding? Tried to order Aubiose online, and this came up, "in for a penny" as they say................. What an absolute delight soft, absorbent - unlike its mummy, and nice to handle. Sorry, folks but I have never found Aubiose particularly...

Hello everyone, hope you are all well, still frozen here, are you all still covered in frost and ice? My girls still seem to be doing well and just dying to be free, won't be too long now before they are. In this corner of the world I don't think I have ever seen it so frozen and bitterly cold...

Thanks, Marigold and Mrs. B., I will hopefully obtain some more eggs next year from the breeder, I have just 5 and want to make it eight, as my other girls are now approaching retirement may even make it ten, but I will miss the blue and white eggs the Legbars and Leghorns lay! I think...

Wonderful birds, large, friendly and intelligent. also good layers. My girls have amazing memories and constantly, if loose in the garden, return to the hutch in which they were raised, stand on the patio outside it and nuzzle my hands for corn, treats, etc. They are a pleasure to have around...

Frankly, wish I had a pack of hounds and a red coat!!! Under my very nose, from over my neighbours fence, I had my darling Phyllis snatched, she was enjoying her retirement, finished her egg laying days, and enjoying the garden and the glorious weather. Spotted me sitting in a chair on the...

Despite everything being a little bit traumatic lately, a happening that made me a little bit joyous yesterday. The longed for Croad babies appeared, looking and acting like a little flock of highly animated penguins. Absoloutely gorgeous, bright and healthy. I do have a feeling however...

My RIR eggs of which 11 are fertile, are hopefully cooking away nicely. I want a couple more good egg layers to add to my flock who lay brown eggs. Have green, blue, cream and white eggs, but I do miss the brown ones, my Croads lay one brown egg, and one cream. I'm hoping that the RIR girl...

For a few weeks now, I have noticed a male blackbird continually outside the chicken run, seemingly having conversations with the girls. He is now joined by his lady, but still the rapport carries on. He has had all the girls noticing him to the point of running to him when he twitters or...

Does anyone know of a firm that transports small livestock (chickens) by road, please? I am in NW Surrey and am thinking of a journey from Cumbria to a junction of M3 or M4, or door to door if possible.

Juno has presented her first egg! It was an absolute whopper, and the lovely elongated shape is like my two first Croad girls gave me. None of the desirable plum blush nonsense for her, good old mid brown. I feel like doing an enormous whoopee and I don't know why. The Anconas have started...

Everyone seems to have disappeared off the forum for the last few days, just like the red mite! Where are you all? I often find a few lurking (red mite not people) when I clean out on Tuesdays, and of course, deal with them usually with a paint brush and liberal applications of DE, they now...

Does anybody on the forum keep Anconas? I have 4 girls and would be delighted to have a chat with them on the forum or PM. Mine are a bit like naughty teenagers at the moment, delightful but a bit difficult and noisy. No eggs yet. Yesterday whilst with them feeding and watering, one of them...

My girls seem to have developed a slight sneeze. They look beautiful, perfectly healthy, lovely glossy plumage, etc. I do not want to go down the antibiotic road. Will even more TLC work with them? I thought I would give them a tonic, meal worms, tuna - which is like a magic potion to most...

I am once again, going to try and post some pics of my girls, here goes. Did try, file too big, do not know how to make it smaller.

Hello people, remember me, Phyllis Light? Well recently I've achieved my aim in life, got the mothering instinct and only want to sit on eggs. Humum says I'm a fat (true) lazy (true) bundle of good for nothing feathers who just likes a good nest box to sit in and gaze into space, whilst thinking...