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We know about pecking order aggression from chickens and bullying too, sometimes a territorial guarding of feeders can seem like an attempt to starve newcomers when it is in fact about status, territory and feeding rights. However on two occasions I have witnessed what had to be deliberate...

Bit of a ramble on my part this one. Was sitting on the balcony last night looking at the lights of the city and I had one of those odd thoughts that can pop into your head randomly. I thought what I am looking at now contains more people than the whole of England did back in Tudor times. The...

For anyone who hasn't seen it I am just posting a link to a nice little documentary on chicken behaviour done by the BBC a few years ago, a little bit simplistic but interesting nonetheless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c06xOF4uQ8

Well we moved to Turkey for some new experiences and got our wish today at around 12.30 when we felt the shocks from an earthquake measured at 6.9 by the USGS. Quite disconcerting to be wobbling from side to side on the 8th floor of a 13 storey building, it makes you quite queasy, of course you...

I know I must have too much time on my hands to make a post like this but one of the first things that struck me when we arrived was how differently they package butter, it is very nice, a bit more taste to it than the standard butters in the UK, though nothing like some of the stuff you get in...

I am always surprised that there are a so many people out there (not on this forum obviously) who consider birds to be stupid creatures. I have used the ferry across the bay now a good few times and it has been interesting to watch the behaviour of the gulls doing what is known as wake dwelling...

I came across this story in the Hurriyet daily about changes to the animal welfare laws in Turkey and thought it was quite interesting, any prospective pet owner in Turkey will need to complete an animal care training course and obtain a certificate before being allowed to own an animal, anyone...

Well me and Mrs Dinosaw finally made it to Turkey, what a palaver, to anyone thinking of moving abroad while simultaneously selling a house and trying to buy a new one for when you come back my advice would be don't even think about it, still waiting for confirmation as I write that my sale has...

They do get the floppy overcomb once mature Chris, but I'm not sure about the rest of the breed standard, will take a look at it, I think Gold Star is just another derived name for Goldlines from pictures of them unless I have the wrong end of the stick, which would be a RIR X Light Sussex.

Yes, some lovely pictures Eirwen, like you I take hundreds to get maybe a dozen good ones to post, I have a few good ones with them on my head and on my shoulders that Mrs Dinosaw has taken but probably another 40 or 50 with them turning away from the camera. Your whitestar is tamer than mine...

Well if this doesn't take the biscuit. I guess I got my just desserts for trying to have a cuppa and a cake in front of my mob, they showed they aren't birds to be trifled with and muffin was gonna stop them from filling their crops. You gateaux admire their spirit I s'pose, initially it was...

For the benefit of those members who aren't on the Brinsea newsletter list I just thought I would post that they are having a sale of a small number of selected incubators, I have posted the link below, the OvaEasy 190 looks particularly good value at £400...

We suffered a fox attack this morning and I suppose in the scheme of things we have got off lightly as by luck we had the young birds locked in for worming and my neighbour alerted me and I was able to get out there before the fox could take all four of the old birds, still we have 1 dead...

For anyone interested in buying some sort of chicken themed presents as christmas gifts this year this site is worth a look, I bought something from them and everything was ok, it's run by the same people as flytesofancy I think. http://www.ilikechickens.co.uk

The chairhen calls the members to order :D . it's their latest favourite perch rascals that they are. There had been a few of them on there but they jumped before I could snap them, heres hoping they don't try with clothes hanging on it.

Chicken keeping in rural central portugal is really widespread and you normally find that when you stay somewhere they will have at least 3-4 chickens however at the latest place I stayed at they had quite an unusual setup. They had built a large weld mesh aviary and in it were 24 Australorps...

Ok so not really specifically a chickens post so I understand if it gets moved but as this page gets more traffic than the photos page I wanted to remind as many people as possible to make sure that they regularly back up their photos and anything else valuable to them saved on their pc's and...

Yesterdays hatch, they already look like troublemakers.

Here is the latest addition to the flock, my new Salmon Favorolle boy who I picked up on Sunday after seeing him on offer here on the forum (Thanks Pauline!!), for some daft reason I've called him Godzilla. It's fair to say that he likes the sound of his own voice at the moment wanting everyone...

Saw a news story last week about chickens being dumped on a roundabout that once used to host a feral colony of up to 200 birds, did a search and came up with this site. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tomhoneywood/index.html Apparently a feral flock existed in the area before the roundabout was...