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HI Steve, Just had a nose at your website- beautiful faverolles :D I read that you rate them highly for meat- are they decent layers too? Oh and you're missing an "L" in the website on your signature :)

Hi and a warm welcome to the forum :D

Hi and welcome Hairylegs :D You might find someone with Light Sussex Bantams in the for sale section- or you could post a Wanted Ad there- fingers crossed you find what you want!

Hello and welcome to the forum :D There are lots of knowledgeable people around who'll be able to give you any help you need. Your four girls sound like a nice mix- bet they look very pretty wandering about together.

Hello and a warm welcome to the forum :) Sounds like you've been kept busy with your new hobby so far!There are a few members from Wales - I'm a Pembrokeshire girl myself :D

My naughty polands escaped from where they temporarily living (while hubby creosotes the sheds!) they were sectioned off from my white orps with netting and found a gap and disappeared off free ranging :) ! Hubby left them to it as both groups aren't laying well at the mo - There is a cockerel...

I was looking at the duck section in a book of British wildlife and had a thought (Unusual I know :o ) Why/How do wild ducks e.g. pochard stay within their own particular breed to mate and raise ducklings? I know that lots of breeds of wild ducks congregate with others and also that the...

Here are the photos of my hubbies auction purchases :lol: The wyandottes enjoyed a bit of a stroll out of their temporary home (away from my other birds!) The cockerel is quite young and hasn't got his "proper" feathers yet. The pekin chicks look a bit squashed to the back but they are just...

The Hubbie just rang me from a poultry sale that he "only went to have a look at" to say that he's bought a quartet of silver laced wyandottes as well as "a few pekin chicks" Last time I let him go to the sale on his own he bought 2 welsummer cockerels (no idea why!) 6 maran cockerels ( :roll...

Hi, I'm thinking of entering the next show in my area- it's not until Jan but I like to be prepared :lol: The question is what doe AOC mean? I know it is Any Other Colour but I'm just wondering if, for example you could put a non- standard colour e.g. millefleur in pekins in an AOC class?

I bought a new pekin cockerel and his wife. The lady I had them from thought they were salmon but they look more like silver birchen to me from what I've seen on the net! (Any ideas??!) Don't really mind what they are- they're very pretty, him especially. He's a gorgeous chocolate brown colour...

Since I lost my pekin cockerels ( and most of my girls :( ) to a fox several months ago my girls have been living with a bunch of growers - some of whom I'll be keeping as my replacement flock! Yesterday I picked up a lovely pair of pekins (think they're silver wheaten) and as I know the lady...

Just wondering if anyone is showing in the County show in Pembrokeshire tomorrow? I missed the deadline so will be having a nose around instead and deciding what I'll show next year!

Took some pics of the chooks enjoying a bit of sunshine :D

We recently caught and wormed all our birds, including my lovely white orpington cockerel. When we caught him he was fine but when we put him back on the floor he tripped up and lay on the floor as though he was dead. Since that day he seems to be having trouble with his neck. If we are a...

Hi, We hatched some lovely colours from my mixed group of pekins- including these two lovely pullets- What do you think ww would get if we bred them to a millefleur cockerel? They are both a lovely blue, speckled with buff and white- almost like a blue millefleur- I've seen a images of blue...

My poland cockerel has taken to climbing a 6 foot vertical chain link fence- He scales it with his feet, like a rock climber and flaps his wings slightly for momentum - quite clever really ;) However, he does insist on climbing into a pen which has 3 lovely legbar ladies and one rather large...

My mum would like to have some quails but we are unsure of where to start - She isn't interested in eating them (Though if they were suitable that would be fine as myself and my family would eat any excess birds ;) She would like some eggs and birds which don't spook too easily as she has lots...

I had 12 pekin eggs from the lovely girlracer (Couldn't recommend her enough for eggs BTW!)- only one of which didn't develop and put them in my Rcom Suro with a mixed bunch of eggs from my own breeding groups - over 20 definitely fertile eggs in total! - So far (and we're on day 23!) only 3...

Hi all, We are having quite a lot of soft shelled eggs from our orpingtons. We have a few breeding groups, all fed the same, all have access to grit and oyster shell and are generally spoilt rotten! Only the orpingtons are laying thin shelled eggs (and of course stomping all over them and...