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The only bright side to losing some chickens is that you get the chance to get some new birds, seeing how my ex batts were deteriorating I knew I would need some new birds if only to share the affections of the Count so picked some up a fortnight ago. There is a farm just over the ridge that was...

I'm talking about commercial laying hybrids here, not home bred hybrids which I actually have a lot of time for as they can often exhibit exactly the sort of hybrid vigour that you would seek in a bird. From memory I think I have kept fifteen commercial hybrids. I would like to think I have...

Found one of the ex batts dead in the run yesterday, it wasn't a huge surprise though I had thought she had a fighting chance of pulling through as she had seemed to perk up a little on how she had been feeling. Anyway it wasn't until I took her out of the run that I realised that she has...

In the light of some of the recent fox attacks on forum members and on some of the misconceptions that I have seen about them both here and around the web I thought it might be useful to just have a recap of what needs to be guarded against. So I will try to debunk some of the common ideas I...

No longer do you need to shake a roasting tin and packet of paxo at them or invest in an expensive fox costume which can't be used when it is raining, nope a whole new means of terror is available courtesy of the Swiss Army. Below you see a photo of a Swiss army tank crew overall in the...

Starting to feather up nicely. They are now in the garage as my days of putting up with the smell of rearing indoors is over. I think we have two OEG boys and hopefully 1 Shamo but I have zero experience of them and am going by wing colouring.

If you don't you might end up with one of these! :D

Today I integrated both of my black Araucanas with the ex batts and I have to say the behaviour of the Count in helping to protect them made me so proud of him. He used to run with the Araucanas until about a month ago when I put him in with the ex batts as it wasn't fair to keep him with just...

When we first saw this critter in our game box we thought it was a leaf, obviously on closer inspection it is a moth but what chance of spotting it on a pile of fallen leaves?.

These birds are so much fun to be around.

Some (poor) photos of the Count with his new exbatt girlfriends. Have begun to integrate the two black Araucanas with them today, he absolutely loves them and has been very protective of them bless him which is good as one of them is practically blind.

I'm obviously not a gentleman taking photos of one of my poor Sussex's laying. She is actually trying to decide whether she wants to go broody or not, hasn't made her mind up yet.

Unwelcome as far as the ex batts and their boyfriend Count Orloffsky were concerned anyway. We went up tonight to lock up and found this beauty in the run, who knows what had gone on prior to this, whether he had fancied one of the Counts ladies and flown over I don't know. He was disorientated...

I know, I know you must have seen dozens of these but I just thought that the hen in this one is particularly persistent and brave given she is stealing from a doberman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfK1Zla1b8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx6xgJmv3Y

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12190991/giant-monster-rat-found-in-hackney-downs-london-childrens-playground.html

A rare heartwarming clip. http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/mar/03/bear-lion-and-tiger-are-best-of-friends-after-sharing-traumatic-past-video

In January for the first time we were on the brink of having to buy eggs while owning chickens, 10 of last years hatch hadn't started laying and the 7 ex batts were producing only a single egg a day between them, not a very good return 1 egg from 17 chickens is it. In the last week however they...

A quick(ish) way to post photos if you are using a Mac. In photos select the image you want Got to file, export and pick downloads as the destination. Open the photo from the downloads icon at the bottom right of the screen, it will open in preview On preview go to Tools On tools select...

I hurt my knee yesterday morning, I've done it before, it's a as if something just sticks at the bottom of the kneecap. Anyway I didn't think too much of it until later on in the day I went up to muck out the chickens, before I got up to them I knew I was in trouble as every step was getting...