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Just a bit of Christmas fun, we are sprinkly shooting star, and bubbly shooting star

That's good news, hopefully the others will work out what a nest box is for before long. Hopefully Tigger will give some helpful advice, bout how much more comfortable a laying box is, and you can chat to the hen next door whilst laying. All mine have instinctively used the nest box

Hopefully that is the answer

This lot have attitude, but not for long....

They are just messing with your mind. Perhaps Sue has laid an egg. I have had hens that don't look anywhere near laying pop one out, then another egg doesn't appear for ages, then off they go full throttle. Not sure about colour variations in the partridge leghorns. Still whatever the outcome...

Welcome to the forum and strangely enough I was thinking about "dark brown eggs" this am. Miss her on the forum. Lots of stuff on here to work through. if you have a problem you can bet one of us has had the same problem before

We use cage traps around the cattle area and other places, then shoot the rats. For inside sheds we have some electronic traps that work well. our biggest bugbear at the moment is squirrels (grey) getting into just about everything we thought we had 3 or 4 persistent devils, but trapped 50...

Congratulations to Tigger. Of course she can now go "oh quit moaning, pushing out one of these odd things is easy peasy, and the human is so pleased with you when it happens" when her sisters start laying

That's the one downside of bait, I hate the thought of our wood mice eating it and then the owls eating them. Seen a few more rats this week, after getting rid of a few, and the squirrels are back, found 5 in the cattle feed this week, I am sure someone is bringing them by the van load at night

Good heavens how upsetting for you. I would go with the advice from Chris as well, and hopefully she will pick up slowly. Poor thing had her home collapse and got lost outside, hope you get a new run up ok and she is fine

I did wonder if we would spontaneously combust or the Capercaillie would after the sighting, but we all survived. It was a great trip with Crested Tits, Ptarmigan, Golden & Sea Eagles, Pine Marten, Red Squirrels, wonderful scenery, spectacular waterfalls. The Culloden Visitor Centre and...

We have just returned from Scotland where we finally came across the Capercaillie and a fine male as well. Bit blurry as I have heavily cropped it, but he was strutting around for about 3 mins

I have had hybrids come into lay in November, I guess they don't all conform to the rule book

We had some and they weren't very feathery, so I am not sure how feathery they should be. If it gets muddy they might need a trim. I found mine great fun and very bouncy. They were all little characters

Not the ring of fire:ROFLMAO:

I have added it to bird food to stop squirrels, birds can't taste so it's fine. I assume a lot could taint the eggs if they were laying. Knowing rats, it probably wouldn't stop them

They are all lovely, we have had many "speckled" hens and that have been friendly and perfect in every way. Glad you have mastered putting the photo's on the site

They seem to be very prolific at the moment, seen lots out in the field at front, and down the neighbour's cattle sheds. We use cage traps and shoot the rats, very popular with the Kites and Buzzards. We also trapped 50 Grey Squirrels earlier in the year that were causing so much damage, we...

I thought they were having a shower behind frosted glass

Yes, we have had cloudy skies also. You would think after waiting for 80,000 years for it to pop into orbit mother nature would give us clear skies