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HI and welcome to the forum - Congratulations on getting your first hens (and eggs!) :D

Hello and welcome :D

Hi and welcome to the forum - bet you're already looking forward to your first blue egg!

After a terrible incubator hatch we decided to try giving the six chicks (day old) which made it to one of my pekin broodies- she has been sitting for a few weeks so we thought she could take care of them for us! We moved the hen and the eggs she was sitting on into a cardboard box and once she...

Bobble has decided that she no longer likes her cosy, secluded, dark nestbox that all the other hens use and has decided that she far prefers to lay her eggs where she gets the attention of passers by and lots of praise when she lays her egg :roll:

Hi funkyboots and welcome to the forum :D Hope your hatch goes well!

Welcome to the forum Battyhen!

Hi Kate and welcome to the forum. Sounds like you're kept pretty busy! So when are you planning your first hatch then? Beware - it's VERY addictive! :D

Hi and a welcome to the forum - Which breed of chickens are you hoping to get?

Ahhh the curse of the broody pekin :lol: My lot are laying well at the moment but they are a mixed group so you would get a random mix of colours - none of them pure! I know girlracer and victoriaspoultry both keep a few different colours of pekins and sometimes sell hatching eggs or you...

HI and welcome to the forum - there are a few people on here who keep marans - try placing a post in the hatching eggs wanted section and I'm sure you'll find someone who has some :D

Hi and welcome to the forum - look forward to reading your posts :-)

Hi and welcome to the forum- there are a few of us (me included!) who are big pekin fans - lovely birds :D

I often have spare hatching eggs from my mixed pekin group - bit of a pick and mix! Good fertility - PM me for availability and prices :D

Hi and welcome to the forum :D

HI and welcome to the forum Wayne

Photos please Lord Cluck :D - the cream mottled ones sound just beautiful!

Oooh I love the d'uccles- I'm trying to persuade my mum to have some instead of the quails she fancies :D

Hi and welcome to the forum :D Sounds like you have a pretty mixture of birds!

Hi David, I usually use 2 bantam eggs in place of a "normal" egg in cooking so it's more like they are around half the size. The size of egg does vary with the breed of bantam though- my pekins lay smaller eggs than my poland bantams for example. NCOTB would be able to advise you on the size...