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I was tempted to go to the Lipsia show. That sounds very good. I heard this may be up to 30'000 birds? I bought some Streicher ducks from Hannover in 2009 - you have so many in Germany compared to the UK. I would be interested to know what other big shows there are in Germany? I am still...

There are a few things I check around the coop to help prevent respiratory problems. Ventillation in the poultry house at night is important. There should be sufficient ventillation without the birds being in a draft. Check bedding is not dusty. Wood shavings should be dust extracted. Chopped...

Rupert has emailed me to say they are Porcelain and belong to Miss N. Hine, rather than Mr Dowden (as it says on the file name of the photos). :)

Here are a couple of photos from the Stratford Show yesterday, courtesy of Rupert Stephenson. It is incredibly hard to photograph pairs of birds as you can imagine - so well done Rupert! Now can anyone help me out with the colour?

Wow.... so now we know.. and we also know who to ask questions on this breed! You certainly know your breed Lord Cluck! :-)08

Wow Lord Cluck... 5 colours... that's impressive, thank you for sharing your experience with us. :-)08 Sharron - I got a photo of a lovely Quail d'Anvers at the National: The catalogue says he belongs to Wallace A.J. Now he is listed as "Normal Quail Cock" Any idea why the 'Normal' ...

The question I have is do you keep them in a covered run through the winter to stop the feathered feet from getting spoilt by mud?

Congratulations Sharron.. If you can PM your address to me and I will send you a keyring! ;) I'm looking forward to hearing from others about Belgian Bantams. Personally, I have never kept them but they do look fantastic.

Hi All, Our hosts had a planned 15 minutes of downtime for 6am this morning and they ran into some 'network difficulties' that resulted in one of our servers that runs the database being offline for the rest of the morning. Sorry if you tried to reach us this morning... there was nothing I...

Hi all, I have uploaded the photos Rupert took of the DWC National in Wolverhampton onto the poultrykeeper Facebook page here: DWC Photos Tim.

I had an email this morning from a friend sending me a rather interesting photo and tale that I thought you would appreciate... Peace and Goodwill to all Hens Thankfully he didn't harm the birds and simply went to roost with them!

Well, I downloaded a video I took last spring today and thought.... January, it really isn't that long before I'll be collecting eggs to hatch. So here's my video of a broody bantam I used to hatch some duck eggs. I chopped off the first bit about the duck eggs which was a little boring :-)12...

Hello All, I took some photos at the National last weekend. The link below takes you to the photos which I have uploaded onto the poultrykeeper Facebook page. There will be more to follow but I want to be fair to Fancy Fowl who are using some of these - so I'm not posting them all at once...

Hello again all that I met on the weekend - yes, I am so sorry I didn't get half as much time to talk to people as I would have liked. After the official photographer left, Rupert and I were on a mission to get the Fancy Fowl photos and being a rather amateur photographer at the best of times...

Hi Shalla, Unless you have a large man-made or natural pond with a filter / pump or stream passing through, then people tend to use tubs of water instead that can be tipped out. They can be moved around as it will soon turn to mud around it. During the winter I put these tubs in a large gravel...

Hello all, I am very pleased to welcome 'Victorias Poultry' as a forum moderator. Sue will be moderating the General Chickens forum (our busiest area) with Foxy and taking care of the general day to day tasks such as deleting spam posts, moving topics and so on. VP has been with us since the...

Here is a tool I have found works well for straight forward, basic photo resizing. Microsoft Image Resizer for XP (Link is lower right hand side). Microsoft Image Resizer for Windows 7. Windows 7 does come with a much better version of paint that allows you to do these things easily but not...

I always take lots of pics = it's just they don't usually come out very well :oops: I will do my best though!

Yes, I'll be there bright and early complete with 2 ducks and 2 drakes. See you there then! You should recongise me as I will have a black single strap camera 'ruck sack' bag on my back with a white poultrkeeper keyring dangling from the top zip! That's the secret code! I should also have a...

Thanks guys, I think they call it beginners luck though :lol: I'm still trying to catch up with everything as I'm off to the Welsh National next weekend so I've still got to sort through my photos and upload the show report and some photos to the main site shortly but here's a photo of him in...