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Hello everyone have you missed me? I've been in St George's hospital in London with a very nasty broken leg for 3 weeks and just been discharged. Fell down 3 stairs at home which resulted in both tibia and fibia broken, and bells and whistles to Frimley Park, then on, to London for plastics and...

I have just sent for 12 Japanese quail eggs, mixed colours, I wondered, what do you feed them, how long to they take to hatch, the eggs will be going in my Brinsea Octagon 20 eco, at what temperature? Do they fly, and can they be garden tamed easily like chickens? do the boys crow, Iv'e...

One of the lovely surprises of late last year were my two Silkies, hatched from supposedly Pekin eggs from ebay. There were three actually, one was a huge black boy an absolutely friendly and sweet natured lad who had to go, sadly. Thy have been laying for a few months now, and I'm sure one of...

Hello, we are kind people. As you are a bantams person, do you have Pekins? I have ten, and love them all, they are just so cute. On the other end of the scaIe I also have 9 Croad Langshans, who are huge black glossy chickens, very sweet tempered, and also lovely. Anyway all the best, I think...

I have three girls, six and a half weeks, all lovely, feathered well grown for their age, all from the same clutch of eggs, and with huge appetites. One has a huge floppy chest that would extend to frigate bird proportions if inflated. She seems well and the chest does not seem to bother her...

Hello LRH and welcome lovely to have another Barred Plymouth rock and Leghorn fan on the forum! A few weeks ago I had one BPR hatch and she spent two days with teenage girls being fussed over, luckily she was strong enough to take the attention and is now a person loving hen and of course...

Does anyone else on the forum have RIRs? If my assessment of them is correct, I think they are the dumbest birds I have ever come across! Beautiful, healthy and well grown. They cannot make it up the little ramp to bed perch and start shouting when it starts to get dark. Every other chick I...

This little boy is very beautiful, and before I send him to his maker I thought anyone who needs a new Pekin cockerel might like to give this boy a chance of a good life. He is positively glowing with health and his markings are quite stunning, he also has lovely thick feathers making him look...

My 14 week old lemon (ish) but purebreed Pekin has been laying daily for the last 5 days, one of them was a double yolker, can anybody beat that? The eggs are so tiny, lovely colour, very strong shells, and Floss, her 4 year old human mum, had 2 for her breakfast this morning which when fried...

Diatomaceous earth is the thing for keeping red mite at bay, they cannot seem to beat it. When I change bedding and flooring in the huts they always get a good squeeze of it on new bedding and nesting material, and now I seldom see them. So I think it must work. I simply do not want my lovely...

Has anyone any ideas about how to keep Gloria amused, short of being in my pocket with portable water and food, I have no idea what to do for her welfare?. She is now eight days old and bright and pushy the 4 - 5 week old Pekins would have her for dinner I think, and have no idea how to quickly...

Can a broody hen feel movement in the eggs when they are a few days into development?. I love candling eggs to see what is developing and have often wondered if the hen with her plucked (usually) tum and sensititivity can feel the movement of the embryo as and when it is developing. Some...

Has anybody else discovered this marvellous bedding? Tried to order Aubiose online, and this came up, "in for a penny" as they say................. What an absolute delight soft, absorbent - unlike its mummy, and nice to handle. Sorry, folks but I have never found Aubiose particularly...

Hello everyone, hope you are all well, still frozen here, are you all still covered in frost and ice? My girls still seem to be doing well and just dying to be free, won't be too long now before they are. In this corner of the world I don't think I have ever seen it so frozen and bitterly cold...

Thanks, Marigold and Mrs. B., I will hopefully obtain some more eggs next year from the breeder, I have just 5 and want to make it eight, as my other girls are now approaching retirement may even make it ten, but I will miss the blue and white eggs the Legbars and Leghorns lay! I think...

Wonderful birds, large, friendly and intelligent. also good layers. My girls have amazing memories and constantly, if loose in the garden, return to the hutch in which they were raised, stand on the patio outside it and nuzzle my hands for corn, treats, etc. They are a pleasure to have around...

Frankly, wish I had a pack of hounds and a red coat!!! Under my very nose, from over my neighbours fence, I had my darling Phyllis snatched, she was enjoying her retirement, finished her egg laying days, and enjoying the garden and the glorious weather. Spotted me sitting in a chair on the...

Despite everything being a little bit traumatic lately, a happening that made me a little bit joyous yesterday. The longed for Croad babies appeared, looking and acting like a little flock of highly animated penguins. Absoloutely gorgeous, bright and healthy. I do have a feeling however...

My RIR eggs of which 11 are fertile, are hopefully cooking away nicely. I want a couple more good egg layers to add to my flock who lay brown eggs. Have green, blue, cream and white eggs, but I do miss the brown ones, my Croads lay one brown egg, and one cream. I'm hoping that the RIR girl...

For a few weeks now, I have noticed a male blackbird continually outside the chicken run, seemingly having conversations with the girls. He is now joined by his lady, but still the rapport carries on. He has had all the girls noticing him to the point of running to him when he twitters or...