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My lovely little white crested poland chick with one of my chamois polands.

Welcome to the forum! It sounds like your birds will be in chicken paradise :D Well done to both of you for giving these girls (and boy!) a chance.

Hi all, I lost a lot of my pekins to a fox attack so am looking to raise some cockerels up for next year. Ideally I'd like them all to be from one person to save on postage- Inci's are full at the minute but will be free by Tuesday 15th June. Does anyone think they'd be able to sell me 24...

Yesterday all my pekins were attacked by a fox- luckily he didn't get them all but I've still lost all 3 of my cockerels, 1 broody hen - who probably gave him a good battering before she went as her 6 chicks are fine. 1 millefleur hen, 2 buff hens and some light sussex growers :cry: They had...

I went to a sale near me today (Llandeilo) and despite saying that I was just going to have a look I managed to come home with 2 speckled sussex hens and one cockerel :o Could have been worse though - I had my eye on a trio of white pekins and some quails too! Will get some pics tomorrow if it...

Hi All, Just wondering which breed of chicken you all consider best for eating? I'm thinking of getting some birds especially for the table. They would be free ranging until fattening time. I'd like to have a pure breed so that I don't have to keep buying eggs in every few months and I don't...

A few pics of the two pekin broodies whose chicks have hatched so far and my new pen for my white orpingtons. There is another, larger pen to the left of the one the orps are living in which houses my legbar group and the two speckled sussex (tried taking a photo of it too but the sun was right...

I now have 7 broody pekins (out of 8 adult hens!)- 5 in decent sized rabbit hutches/ arks, one in a bread bin (don't ask!) in the main shed and one being stubborn in the nest box- I'm hoping they are going to hatch me out an army of polands! I'm going to open the doors of the hutches when the...

Thought I'd show off my new ladies- Spotty, Dotty and Lottie. They are all enjoying free ranging with the rest of the group before they all go into the breed specific runs (once OH has finished making them :D )

Oh dearie me, I'm properly addicted! Spoke to someone at the end of last year about wanting speckled sussex hatching eggs and had an email yesterday asking if I would like to buy the three hens and their coop as their owner has decided to just keep pekins. Yes please I say! Going on Sunday to...

After all my moaning that hens are never broody when you need one- my lovely girls have proved to be life savers :D I Bought some silkie eggs on Friday and collected some of my poland eggs ready for fertility testing. Turned the incubator on on Fri ready to put the eggs in on Sat and it...

Thought I'd update about my poland who was scratching herself silly around the ears, wobbling about, recovering and then going downhill again. I put some liquid parrafin in her ears as suggested by VP in an earlier thread and she recovered well but then over the bank holiday weekend went...

Here are my new birds- bit of a project I think! Anyone know someone who makes wigs for chickens ;)

I'm getting a quartet of new polands- they look really nice birds but the cockerel has been a bit over amorous and the girls look like they've been scalped :shock: I'll eventually have to find a home for the boy as he is frizzled and so are all my girls so I can't breed with him. Is there...

Hi all, Just wondering how you all get on with eggs which have been posted to you? I've had quite a few posted to me - fertility has sometimes been very good but probably only works out around 60 % over all and the hatch rates are never over 50% and often lower. I have sold and posted some of...

Here is a picture of Hobble taken today- she's looking a lot better and is walking around the garden but is still falling asleep quite a lot - her wing feathers are damaged from when she was using them to balance herself while she was scratching - oh and she's a frizzle like Bobble so the...

One of my polands is driving herself crazy scratching around her ears- she has even made herself bleed and it now looks as though she has excema there? She stands on one leg to do it, then falls over, gets confused and looks like she's having a fit, and gets all muddy rolling about. Her eyes are...

I have a problem regarding delivery of a few chickens to Peterborough (I'm in Pembrokeshire) I have used UKpigeoncouriers before (and they were great!) but they have apparantly stopped delivering chickens to concentrate on the pigeons. I have tried JM couriers (again, very helpful but don't do...

One of my pekins has gone broody and has been for a week or more. She's in the nest box of our main shed which isn't where I'd like her to be! I tried moving her the other day, I put her in a dark box and then into the house part of a smaller run- in the garden and she immediately broke out of...

I have an extremely aggressive legbar cockerel- he's attacked me, my 2 year old and today my OH's face (hence his date with the pot tomorrow!) He was for sale but I'm now not happy for him to go to anyone as he's nasty with people and rough with the hens too- His brother is a complete gent, no...