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i have just been on the aol news site and theres a link to a new video of footage of what happens to the male chicks :( :( :( i cant even bring myself to watch it . why does this have to happen in this day and age to me i find it way to cruel and dont know if i can put up a link .i have a...

plot holders that are next to my chicken run have decided to have a bonfire tonight which is fair enough but they have only placed it 1 1/2 metres away from my ex batts shed :x :x i really hope my girls wil be ok and wont be coughing in the morning but this gives me the chance to get my own...

i did not want to put mixing different breeds as a title but i didnt know what else to put :lol: , i spoke to an old chicken farmer today { aslo sheep and other livestock } and we was talkig about me needing another coop as my chicks wont house with the big girls or the ex batts and he...

:lol: its getting worse , my old girls are in the wendy house all fine but wont share with the chicks , so i thought i would nick the other 6'4 shed from the site and and chuck out the bbqs for the ex batts an chicks to share umm nope the guy had built it so well that i would of had to smash...

today i had a very soft shelled egg laided and they was quite a bit of blood in it and i have a hen whos pretty miserable at the mo as she is moulting could it possiably be her thats laid the soft shell and do i need to worry about the blood in the egg ?? i havent had blood in eggs before well...

has anyone or does anyone use this for covering thier runs my girls are in a 33 ft by 33 ft run or mite be just slighty bigger and the run has netting all the way over it but i would like to get it covered so it can stay dry and give the girls some protection ...

i am that in love with keeping my girls that now i am on the verge of actully buying a coop instead of a shed but i am getting confused on what i really want to do . i had a 7 by 7 shed which was not totally damp proof for my girls so i got a pretty large wendy house of my sister { shed came...

i hatched 2 cream legbars and one had the white spot which i assume would of been the cockeral but now they loook almost the same and i a having differculty sexing them

i have 2 14 week old cream legbars and i have been trying to house them in with the adult girls but about 3 of my adult girls just wont have them in the big house they peck them like theres no tomorrow and really give my babies hell . over the past 3 nights i have been letting the chicks go in...

i hatched my own chicks this year just to see what its like and i only ended up with 2 chicks out of 4 eggs , i had one male one female cream legbar thing is i will have to get rid of the cockeral as we are not allowed to keep them on allotment sites :lol: its getting tricky now to tell them...

thanks david , its nice to be back on a poultry forum again there are times when i need to pick peples brains :lol: although i have had my girls 2 years now and been though a lot i do still get stuck at times .

i have 2 cream legbar chicks 1 male 1 female , the male i have to get rid of within a month as i am not allowed cockerals on my allotment site :cry: but at the mo i cant tell whos whos :lol: :lol: as they look almost the same but a week sunday i am rescuing 8 more ex batts and i wil need the...

hi guys i have just registed and i cant wait to meet fellow chock keepers , some of you i may already know from other sites . my name is hazel and i have 11 adult birds ranging from old ex batts , cuckoo maran , cream legbar chicks , white leghorns and 1 isa brown . but i have another 8 ex...