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Brilliant Valerie! Something like this maybe...

Ive just been reading up on broodies and have realised that this has been going on for a while. There have been feathers in the nest boxes for a few weeks though they were, I thought, Bonnie's (black and easy to identify). Bonnie lost feathers on her underside as soon as the weather warmed up...

Like below Marigold. The scales are adjusted to 1kg with no load so its the reading minus 1kg. Not very accurate but OK. Its high enough so they don't jump straight off again, long enough to read the scales before lifting them back down. Standing on the scales is a good one too. Especially if...

Does anyone have an average or weight range for a blacktail hybrid hen? Been weighing today but will need to catch Lulu and Pom when they are roosting. Took the opportunity to weigh Mo as she was getting broody on a clutch of eggs that I hadn't removed soon enough. If I ever did want to hatch...

Last year, I started watching Mrs G on the nest just as Z6, 7 & 8 were hatching so I didn't see the incubation time. Mrs G is doing a lot of full on sleeping at night on the nest at the moment but last year was very alert all night if I remember rightly, but that was after they hatched. Tonight...

I'm not getting any ad links on my desktop. I think it must key into other installations (like Google and Facebook on our own computers with the various permissions and add ons there might be.) I have seen this keyword linking thing (when the text becomes a link and is coloured to indicate...

Its scaling much better on a mobile now Tim. No more zooming in and scrolling around to see the headings then across to see the last post etc. And its auto resizing images and attaching them with much less jiggery-pokery!!! This image was 1988 x 2477 pixels and 481.9 kB. It did moan when I...

It's not fair! I want to be the boss! Mo

This evening Linden attacked Aerial. At least I think that was what happened - he was chasing her around with his hackles up and Arial was in a panic trying to get away. Brought her in and she's lost weight by 400g in the last 10 days. Gave her a special supper of pellets, oats and an egg...

Does anyone know what causes double yoked eggs? One of my Cream Legbars has started laying them regularly. Not sure which one yet. It's a perfect shell but they're huge!

I kind of know what he means by 'radical otherness' and it is (to my understanding of the notion) what I love about birds. The difference between us is pretty radical. They are on the top of the other evolutionary scaffold limb of the tree. It's something like 80 million years down the limb...

Nadia & co, You really mustn't give this human ideas. He's had us modeling all sots of get ups all afternoon!

Great idea! Ive been taking my camera with me everywhere lately, photographing mostly birds and trying to name the photos. Its a learning curve and I'm somewhere near the bottom i.e. took few pics walking the dog the other afternoon and got nowhere with the RSPB birdfinder so asked the handy...

Best not! Could you just try one hatch now Hen-Gen, just to buy you more time?

Should imagine that all you keen bird people have seen this already but Hugh's Wild West (iPlayer), especially the dippers, owls and the roosting long tailed tits - Brilliant!

Following your problems Dye I finally got the camera back in the run, mostly to see who was going into the nest boxes in the day but left it pointed at the floor last night and it seems my mouse population is bigger than I thought. That is a 6 inch dog bowl in the picture so they are rather fat...

Feels like we have been eggless forever. The CLBs are well due to start laying as soon as the days start to get noticeable longer. They think it is great fun to kick all the nice comfortable nesting material out of the nest boxes at the moment and I keep putting it back and telling them that...

That looks just like a problem I had before - discussed in this thread http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9895&hilit=vent+gleet Never really understood what caused it but it went away finally and didn't come back. It wasn't 'vent gleet' - that was just a guess , there was some...

That's it. Week over. I'm on the train home. I can think about Xmas now! (bit late to go shopping but I can try.) Apart from the obvious, looking forward to having some extended time with the crew (chicken crew) that isn't just half an hour in the morning for a change. Shortest day behind us -...