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Hi Ricky. While waiting for a reply from someone who knows more about quail than me, is it possible to isolate the sick birds from the others & to treat the ground in the enclosure with ground sanitising powder?

I got the answer last Sunday, when I found a lovely milk chocolate coloured egg in the coop, rounder in shape than the other brown ones & 8g heavier. So now four of my five pullets are in lay & they're averaging 3 eggs per day between them. Tigger the cream legbar hybrid has both next boxes...

The mystery egg was magnolia yesterday, so perhaps some people might describe it as cream? There are some references online to partridge leghorn hybrids laying cream eggs... I'm just hoping that they aren't the speckledy's eggs. If they are, then the Marans is laying "supermarket brown " eggs...

Ne'er a truer word was spoken... This morning I found three small but perfectly formed eggs! Now there's a bit of a puzzle... In September I bought four point of lay pullets - three hybrids (cream legbar, speckledy and a partridge leghorn) and a pure breed black copper French Marans, together...

Wow. That's all you need: Mafioso squirrels... :mad:

Welcome, Clucking Grandpa. I got my first French Marans in September. She's just started squatting, so hopefully I'll be getting some lovely dark brown eggs in the nex couple of months. When you hear old-timers on the formum talk about dark brown eggs by the way, don't be surprised if you...

A conversation that I might have overheard between my young PoL pullets yesterday... Tigger (the cream legbar hybrid): "I don't know what Mum put into our layers' pellets yesterday, but I don't half feel constipated today. I feel really weird." Eleanor (the partridge leghorn): "Well the rest...

Yesterday I found a rat half in & half out of a bait box, deceased. That's one way of it warning its family off eating the poison...

I was picturing you eating air fried rats for a moment. Then I twigged that it must be the squirrels that you eat! I guess you use the fur too? I've had a squirrel snuggle up under my fleece before, and its fur was very soft... I don't mind squirrels in our garden. But the moment they get into...

Ohhh.... I'm jealous. I've never seen any of those in real life apart from one red squirrel. Why would anyone go on a sun & sangria holiday when they could have a trip like yours???

I've never had such jumpy pullets before...

That's not a bad idea... I've already put silicone tubing onto the training bolts, to make the closing quieter... I think I'll try the draught excluder next.

Hi JNAlderwood, & welcome to the forum. Out of interest, can I put lights into the coop when the girls' feeder & drinker are left outside? I guess I could get some battery powered rechargeable lights to stick in their coop? (It's a Green Frog chicken lodge.) How many extra hours of light do...

Congratulations BYM. I gather that they're hard to spot these days... We missed you!!

I guess that their objection to their new Grandpa's feeder has put paid to any hope of their coming into lay, more's the pity. They've been on hunger strike this week & I suspect that they're eating more bedding than layers' pellets...

Hi Chris. It's good to hear from you after all this time. Rick posted a few days ago for the first time in ages too... My only experience of archery was at a hotel a few years ago, where it was one of the activities on offer. I came second in a beginners' competition & won a half bottle of rum...

Four of my nearly new pullets are now growing wattles & their combs are less tiny. The Speckledy hybrid (Sweep) surprised herself this morning by squatting when I reached out a hand to stroke her. I could almost see a thought bubble above her along the lines of "what the heck just happened to...

How come squirrels don't suffer from that? 🤔

Josh has definitely made it easier to post photos. I could've sworn that I'd posted photos of my partridge leghorn, Pita Pinta Asturiana & French black copper Marans too though...

None of the girls are laying at the moment- the ex-batts are too old & the new ones aren't old enough! So no risk of curried eggs... I wondered whether they'd be affected by "afterburn" 😵‍💫