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I am after some fertile Cream Legbar or Araucana hatching eggs in a nice blue colour if anyone has some I could buy?

I've got a couple of hens that have grown spurs and become flirtatious with the hens even though they live with a cockerel. They dont have a very nice time as the cockerel is aggressive with them. I just wonder if there is a solution for restoring them to egg-laying again?

I had something attack one of my booted bantams this morning. On hearing her clucking c5.30am I rushed down with my dogs. It was almost dark but I thought I saw something leave on top of the run. The hen was immobile against to the side of the run in shock, presumably because something had...

A young bantam vanished last night at dusk. She was trying to roost on her own at the top of a tree in my garden. I couldn't find her when I waited half an hour for it to get darker to pick her up. There was no alarm sound of any sort. I wonder if perhaps an owl picked her up or how she...

One of my birds doesn't seem too well and her droppings are white with little black lumps. I'm not sure what this indicates?

Has anyone found a supplier of good quality egg boxes - something reasonably strong and that make a nice presentation?

I've been looking for brown sussex bantams for over a year to go with my cockerel. Someone has suggested I could put red sussex with him and choose the brownest offspring. Does this sound likely to work? They seem to have black necks, whereas the brown sussex is similar to the welsummer with...

When I visited my field birds yesterday I was horrified to find the cockerel on top of one of my copper black Marans hens and all the other copper black hens attacking it. She was in an awful state, barely able to stand. I notice she has lost weight, so perhaps she is ill, but this seems very...

Joanna, my lovely speckled sussex bantam who had a badly broken leg two years ago has died. She had a course of antibiotics for a chest infection in the cold weather, then had sourcrop. I thought I was winning with probiotics but she had some fluid in her crop so I starved her yesterday and...

I noticed on today's lunchtime news that the supermarkets are competing with each other to offer 'bargain' foods. Morrisons now offers a £3 chicken and ASDA offers a £2.00 chicken. I'm sure that these birds must be suffering appalling welfare issues and that we should all be writing to our...

I visited Northern Parrots website today. They do a huge array of avian supplements and probiotics, including for moulting birds, multiminerals etc. Useful for a small medical cabinet if you have a lot of birds. Avipro Avian probiotic with vitamins seems to have helped my bird with a lump in...

One of my birds has stopped eating. Her crop is empty but I can feel a smooth lump in it about the size of a walnut which seems quite tender. She is a good weight and is moulting, but looks reasonably well otherwise. Any ideas what this could be?

My three week old chicks are extremely chatty. I know if they are noisy this is a bad sign and means something is wrong, but I can't work out what it is. They look OK and its not a distressed noise, but not normal all the same. I've given them pro-biotics and will keep a vigilant eye for...

I've just been reading on my Vet's website that avocado is extremely toxic to chickens.

A company called The Neem Team www.theneemteam.co.uk is supplying Neem extract based products (using the elements within Neem which are insecticidal or vermicidal) for controlling lice and fleas in pets, livestock, poultry and humans. The Neem tree extracts are non-toxic and I have found their...

My first-time Broody Faverolles has chicks two and a half weeks old but she is so busy looking after them she has become incredibly thin. Now that the days are warm the last two days I've been separating her from the chicks during the daytime to try and encourage her to eat, and put her back...

I fully agree with Chris Seems all the breeds will quickly be ruined in terms of longevity and laying and no-one will have the years to spend getting these qualities back. Further to my horrendous hatch from Pear Tree Poultry I now have an chick hatch late with the legs forwards. They aren't...

I've had a chick born from a bought in egg that is continually star-gazing and falling over backwards and also opening and shutting its mouth a lot. Its from the same breeder of the weak chick born a week ago (now OK) Pear Tree Poultry. I gather I should give it Vitamin E and Selenium but just...

I have a broody hen that has never got bored of her chicks that are now nearly 4 months old. She is still busy showing them what to eat and looking after them and hasn't come back into lay. But isn't it time for her to now rejoin the flock? I just wonder if it would be ruthless to separate her.

One of my chicks born 5 days ago is quieter than the others and often seems a bit sleepy. I'm not quite sure what could be wrong or whether it could be born with a weakness. It is from a bought in egg.