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Hi Liz -welcome and enjoy. Ros

Hi Kym and welcome----if you are an addict already just wait a while ,it will get worse! Lydia is sure to be along later to say hello but she can't come out till after dark! Ros :lol:

Seeing Tims generous offer above made me think. An idea that would get some forum funds in and maybe help some. Those of us who have spare hatching eggs donate 6 -say and advertise on here , to be sold at a low price for members on here only. The seller takes PandP only -the rest of the payment...

Last night the electricity went off-yet again. The trouble is not knowing how long this will last. Husband sent off with incubator wrapped in bubble wrap to friends with power , I squeezed another 2 eggs under an already full broody first. Then it was hot water bottles in brooder for chicks...

---No ones been on this bit for weeks so I am trying to start it off again--trouble is now I have nothing to chat about! Ros

--- I have just had to dispatch my lovely (favourite) mature cockerel Errol as clearly very unwell and suffering with no obvious cause . The thing I have always dreaded happened - I found it too physically difficult to get done quickly and efficiently - his neck was too tough for me to do the...

--At the weekend I decided Id have to sell my now 6 week Pootlets. 1 pair has gone to a friend where they will be treasured. I was going to keep the other pair but I decided I just cant have another breed/colour/size etc. Spent ages doing pics. , posting ads etc. on Sat. and Sun. Then last night...

Hi Chickenslave and welcome-the most friendly forum around. Your name says it all!!! Ros :D

---LYDIA!!!! What is going to live in that coop????????????? Not going 'shopping' are you?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Ros

---I decided it must be spring--- in the past week I have had 3' first time ' eggs from last years birds! :D Ros

Ive never seen this before-maybe its common and Ive always missed it. One of my speckled sussex laid her first egg today-thats not unusual! She spent several hours in her box doing so , what I found extraordinary was that the young cockerel went in to the box , sat down and stayed with her the...

Every time I think I am getting better at sexing them I get caught out yet again. I have a little golden 'cockerel' that I have to keep as he has become a pet.!!!! Ive had him penned with 2 pullets, all about 6 months now. His sibs of same age all crow, but he has always been a definite boy--...

Hi Russ-welcome from another one from Sussex! Ros :D

Good Morning Sue Sablepoot and a HNY to you. I am at present incubating some of your kind for the first time. Could you please tell me (if you dont find it too personal a question ) how long you took to hatch? Im not sure if your family take 19 or 21 days on average and I want to work out when...

Hello--dropped in to say hello but looks like everyone has already gone to the Caribbean for Christmas apart from me! Nothing to say or talk about so --- Goodbye! Ros

Hi , Im new here but recognise a few user names! from West Sussex, hobby keep bantams and L/F of various sizes and shapes! Ros