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So, not long to go to the National Poultry Show 2012. Again, being held across two halls with around 6000 exhibits! I'm going to be there with Rupert taking photos and I have a nice trio of Light Sussex that I've hatched from Nick Smiths bloodline booked in for a sale pen but bottled out of...

Hi Guys, Sorry, I'm not ignoring you... it's just I had some ducklings due to hatch so I thought I'd try to get a photo of them in the rearing unit... Anyway, 13 ducklings hatched and I have taken a few photos. The unit has two areas, a bath area which will be filled with water every few days...

Welcome to the forum, thanks for saying hello. It certainly is an addictive hobby. With the sex of your ducks, the ducks should 'quack' loudly. Drakes are quieter and more of a 'rasp'. See you in the forums!

Yes, a fantastic breed and well worth saving! A warm welcome to the forum. Tim

Hello all, Richard Jackson of Chickenvet is now writing bi-monthly (it was quarterly) articles for the Poultry Diseases section of the poultrykeeper site. I asked him whether he would be able to write about the different types of droppings produced by poultry from fit and healthy through to...

Hello all, I've been rather busy over the last 6 months working on the new poultrykeeper website so haven't been on the forum as much as I would have liked... There's still some information missing - Turkeys and Quail for example and I'm still debugging some other bits and pieces. I have...

Hello and welcome to the forum. Excellent advice from Foxy. One other thing I would add (if you don't already know) is pure breeds breed true but hybrids are a cross and you need to buy more from the breeder to get the same thing again. So if you ever planned on breeding lateer on, this might...

Welcome Jacob (sorry I'm a bit late!) Great to see you on the forum :-) Have fun. Tim.

I use a dog crate - but you have to remove the plastic base (they slide around on it and can hurt themselves). I put down a dust sheet in the boot (to catch straw etc) then some plastic, the crate and an inch of straw inside the crate. They can grip the floor then and any 'wet ones' get...

Thanks for the information Foxy / Dorinda I appreciate it. I am adding the breeds pages to the new website and updating some of the information as I go. I've just about reached the Faverolles page so I will update it with the French and German info and that some will use double pen mating...

And a Welcome from me too.. ;-) Tim

Hi Navyd, Welcome to the forum, I hope the forum is useful to you. Good luck with your new new venture! Tim

I had an email from Jo Barlow, a friend of mine last night: "I have just got back from rehoming 700 hens today. Biggest rehoming in Cornwall. Amazing amount of girls. With last weeks 450 and next weeks 300-400 we are almost at 1500 in December. Still thousands going to slaughter but it is an...

Hello all, I've been talking with some Germans about Faverolles and I'm trying to make sure I have my facts and understanding right. The Deutscher Lachshünner or German Faverolles was (I'm told) split from the French and the British as early as 1905 into a seperate Breed. The German Bantam...

Hello All, I took some photos at the National (umm about 500 that I have reduced down to 150 reasonable photos!). The link below takes you to 132 of these photos which I have uploaded onto the poultrykeeper Facebook page. There are far too many to put on here... :roll: I hope you like them...

Hello and a warm (if a little delayed!) welcome! Tim

Hi lils, a warm welcome from me too. I don't keep Quail now but used to keep Chinese Painted when I was a teenager. The babies were like little bumble bees - very sweet! See you around the forum. Tim

Hello Alexart, welcome to the forum. :-)99 What lovely looking Hamburghs you have! Very pretty. Tim

Welcome Peteuk. Nice to have you on board - and rare to have someone with Rheas too! See you in the forums. Tim

Great to have you on board... a very warm welcome! Chooks are certainly addictive aren't they!