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If anyone has any electric netting for sale, I would be delighted to hear from you, with the price please. I don't know anything about it, except that it seems very expensive new, so secondhand will be great.

Morning all, up very bright and early so I thought I would give my thoughts on beak bits. After the marathon with my Whitestar, who was responsible for seriously harrying past chickens, being separated, then being OK of her own accord, I saw it was time to arrest, separate and put beaks on the...

I'm lookingfor a large Brinsea brooder, used, but in vgc. I'm reluctant to pay about £70 for one unless I know they really are good and work, so looking for secondhand or unwanted. I will need it in about a month or so. Are they as economical to run as advertised?. I feel it must be better then...

Can anyone please tell me if it is true that it is best not to mix vac. and non-vac. hens?. If they can be mixed eventually, after about what sort of period? I want to give my 2 absolutely huge and beautiful Croad L. girls more room, their holding pen is now small for them, and the weather is...

Does anyone have 2 POL Whitestars or POL white Leghorns, for sale, please, and if so the price? I found my new Whitestar replacement dead on Christmas evening, I was so looking forward to her white eggs soon.

Any ideas or comments, please anybody? My grandaughter's lemon cuckoo has gone broody. I don't mind, but she still has a 3 month old son, who will not leave her alone, he loves his mum! The son is a frizzle lavender cockoo (ad. on this site), from bought in eggs, but a real mummy's boy. Only...

This ark is practically new. It has three access doors, one in the wire mesh, one at the non-housing end, and one in the house. It has nest box and perch and retails currently for £165. I would like £75, a picture of it is available on ebay for the next day or so.

Is it possible that an Orpington cockerel can tread a Pekin hen, or likely? I hatched mixed colours of purebreed Pekins, all the eggs were Pekin so mum must be a Pekin. One of them is the most stunning coal black girl, looks like a Pekin, but has only got very fine leg feathers, and no foot...

Can anyone help, please, with this question? Is it possible (or advisable) to remove eggs already in an incubator for 10 days, to under a broody hen to continue hatching them? I have a young and newly broody Pekin, and wondered if it is a shame to waste her talents or not? The chicks-to-be are...

My lovely, bright buff Sussex is fluffed up, depressed and just hanging around, any ideas anyone, please? She is about 18 months or so, came through a dreadful moult to be absolutely beautiful again, and now this. She is eating and drinking but has stopped laying again, but they have just...

Does anyone have any of the above eggs spare for sale, please? I knew if I felt broody, I would have to do something about it, so decided to add to my little flock of lovely girls, and some white and red pure plain ones would be perfect. Many thanks, regards, Valerie.

Hi everyone, Three and a half weeks ago I hatched 2 LF white Leghorns, and 5 exchequer bantams. All are healthy and very pretty. Problem is this... Are the girls the ones developing long thin tails, and the boys the ones with the very neat small tails and round bums? I shall be really...

Not a new topic, but I need help or advice, please. This lovely has munched her way through the feathers of a cuckoo Pekin and a Bluebell. Needless to say I have tried everything suggested, from spray to neat tuna to pecky thingies hanging up, cannot believe how the tuna vanished or the cries...

Well last night she did it. Sorbet joined!! She was as good as gold, for her it does not get much better when you are cooed over, stroked and petted by a host of young admirers. I took some pictures, be patient - I still do not know how to do it, but I have asked for help, so it will be in...

Sorbet, my granddaughter's lemon cuckoo Pekin is about to join the brownies on Thursday!!!!!! I have made her a uniform, which looks cute off, don't know what it will look like on. Shall I try and post some pictures?, I do not know how, but No. 1 granddaughter has been threatening to show me...

Hello everyone, Can someone tell me when the above chap is likely to start crowing?. I cannot remember at what age the others I have hatched and raised started to crow. This little boy is the most georgeous lavender. He is eventually going down down to Cornwall, but if he starts to crow here I...

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me please, do Silkies come in bantam and LF varieties? I have two pure white Silkies, one tiny size, about 18 months old, and the other about 18 - 20 weeks, twice the size of her, larger than two LC Pekins of the same age. Question is, is Moppet extra tiny, or is...

Can someone please tell me the differences between Warrens, Lohmanns, Isa browns, etc. My only experience with brown girls is with Warrens. I was admiring with my granddaughters yesterday, some lovely calm growers, brown, and asked how much the Warrens were. He said they were Isa browns, not...

Why (apart from the obvious) do we feed layers pellets, why not a corn mixture or other appropriate foods? Can anybody please suggest a really good way to feed both layers (mixed bunch) and pets (Pekins and other bantams). I am getting to dislike the smell of damp pellets when mixed with other...

I am trying to sell this industrial strength ark. It is roughly 8ft long and about a third of that is housing. It has a lift off front for cleaning, lift out interior of the house, and a double lift out perching bar. It has a magnetic pophole, with cord and toggle to open. The ark and run are...