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Hello everybody, my 22 week old Birchen hen is going broody I think. Sitting in the (one of two) nest box and growling every time I go anywhere near, being very temperamental and bad tempered, and fluffing up. She does not seem too bothered about sitting duties, though, and thats fine by me...

Comments and suggestions, please. Try as I do, I cannot keep my girls smelling anything to halfway decent, when the torrential rain hits the straw and food and chick poo strewn concrete floor of the runs, and the ones on grass and dirt do not fare much better. Cleaning out and scrubbing is the...

At about what age do LF spurs, i.e. RIR start growing? I think I have a "dont know" hen. I was assured it was a hen by a breeder, and I have managed somehow to hatch a bantam RIR hen with two very large, actually ENORMOUS, siblings, one of which crows. The cockerel that hatched with them was...

Yes, I have one of the above!! 15 weeks old, cute as a button, and very friendly - BUT in the garden the other day something startled her and she simply took off (like a bird). If she had not met with an obstruction, one tree, one high fence, I think she would still be going! She is normally...

Is there a quick, merciful way to do this? Terrible subject as I love all my girls and boys, but as a responsible person, I feel sometime I should learn how to do this in case of accident, or unavailability of vet. It has been bothering me for sometime. I have just found one site that gave...

I think I am suffering from the above disease. I think the cure is to offer to incubate eggs for people and hand over the results for a fee, say £30. What does anybody think? I have an Octogon 20 Eco, last hatch 15 out of 16 - so proud of that! I think it takes 24 hens eggs. Will it be the...

The eggs in question are a complete surprise!! In one run I have a Sablepoot, gold Birchen pekin, and a silkie - all lorded over by a gold partridge Pekin cockerel who does tread rather a lot - I thought to no avail, then the surprise eggs! I do not know which or all of the hens is laying...

Can anyone please tell me of a plastic type of floor, washable, moveable, cut to sizeable, that I can find? Also affordable. I've got concrete for one area, straw, concrete, much waste food, and rain are not a pleasant combination, neither is earth with the above combinations. I thought...

My Jersey giant (big) Ben has just laid her first egg, and although she is large to say the least, her egg is 84g! I hatched her from a batch of six, and the egg she hatched from was small, no larger than a hen's egg - does this mean her eggs will get even bigger as she grows? Sometimes I wish...

At about what age do little Pekin ladies start to lay? I am wondering as Pekin boys seem to crow and tread and ladies of the same age have not yet produced any eggs. Any help please, anyone? - many thanks and regards. They are about 15 weeks old and and look mature size wise.

One of my Light Sussex hens has done it!!!, she was named Hero as she was sickly and weak out of the shell, I did not think she would live till morning, but as you can see she has gone on to bigger and better things - her sister, by contrast , has just laid a first pullet size egg. I took...

Hi everyone! Can anyone tell me, please, when I may expect an egg from the above beautiful, black, 26 week old girl? She is gentle, slightly shy, and very laid(?) back. Will she lay even for a while yet?, she still seems like a babe towering above a Cream legbar, and a lavender Peking. Also...

What will the above union produce colourwise?

Can anyone please tell me what the above union may produce colourwise?, many thanks, VB.

Having read about this product, seemed a good idea to give it to my girls and boys in their water; nowhere can I find appropriate dosage instructions. Can anybody please help? Thanks in advance from VB and many (too) feathered friends.

When a rooster treads a pullet, is the next egg she lays likely to be fertile? Can someone answer this for me, please? She is a hybrid, looks as if she might be Vorwerk/buff Sussex, and he is an overkeen and very cheeky blue Pekin. Many thanks, VB.

At about what age do a cockerel's wattles start to develop? I have two white, was convinced that one was a cockerel, but they are 12 weeks old and no sign of wattles yet, can anyone please help with this?