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Does anyone know of a firm that transports small livestock (chickens) by road, please? I am in NW Surrey and am thinking of a journey from Cumbria to a junction of M3 or M4, or door to door if possible.

Juno has presented her first egg! It was an absolute whopper, and the lovely elongated shape is like my two first Croad girls gave me. None of the desirable plum blush nonsense for her, good old mid brown. I feel like doing an enormous whoopee and I don't know why. The Anconas have started...

Everyone seems to have disappeared off the forum for the last few days, just like the red mite! Where are you all? I often find a few lurking (red mite not people) when I clean out on Tuesdays, and of course, deal with them usually with a paint brush and liberal applications of DE, they now...

Does anybody on the forum keep Anconas? I have 4 girls and would be delighted to have a chat with them on the forum or PM. Mine are a bit like naughty teenagers at the moment, delightful but a bit difficult and noisy. No eggs yet. Yesterday whilst with them feeding and watering, one of them...

My girls seem to have developed a slight sneeze. They look beautiful, perfectly healthy, lovely glossy plumage, etc. I do not want to go down the antibiotic road. Will even more TLC work with them? I thought I would give them a tonic, meal worms, tuna - which is like a magic potion to most...

I am once again, going to try and post some pics of my girls, here goes. Did try, file too big, do not know how to make it smaller.

Hello people, remember me, Phyllis Light? Well recently I've achieved my aim in life, got the mothering instinct and only want to sit on eggs. Humum says I'm a fat (true) lazy (true) bundle of good for nothing feathers who just likes a good nest box to sit in and gaze into space, whilst thinking...

I still have the Dengie, but will soon get it to the tip. I now have an unwanted bale of Bedmax, wonderful stuff, but Camberley secretly is a dreadfully windy corner of the Universe, and I was finding it bleached or grown white blown around the garden, lovely!! The bale is unopened, and anyone...

I have two of these boys, with good bloodlines, good genes. They are nice little boys, but are looking for new homes. If I could post pictures of them on the forum, I would, but I cannot, no matter how I try. There are pictures of them on Preloved, no problem at all. They are now 4 weeks old...

My 9 girls, 7 purebred Pekins, and 2 hybrid Silkies, are producing dozens of eggs a week that are just going to waste, the family will not touch fertilised eggs. I have one Pekin cockerel, a lemon cuckoo. The other two girl's eggs are easy to tell from the Pekin eggs, they are larger. So if...

Does anyone have a chick brooder for sale, please? If you have, can you PM me, please? it is the plate type I want, either on legs or a frame. I will be pleased to hear of any that are going. Many thanks.

I have loads of Pekin eggs at the moment from my lemon cuckoo, Millefleur, blues, lavender and white, Pierre is courting his ladies daily, and as he has 9 girls he must be a tired boy! He is a lemon cuckoo, all Pekins are purebred. If you live near Camberley you are welcome to collect any eggs...

I have Pekin eggs, obviously now getting stale, and anyone who is near is welcome to them. I do know the ages of them, so if anybody is interested, they can either PM me or post. Anyone who wants them is very welcome and will be given the last eggs laid. Pierre is doing his duty like a goodun...

Has anyone any idea what to use for a preventative to stop the girls using their roof to roost on at nights? Since I have had my new girls, apart from Phyllis Light, they all, without exception roost outside on the roof. So until the last 3 or 4 days, every night I go out and lift them bodily...

'morning everyone on GCF My name is Phyllis and I do love my Humum, so as I thought she was a little bit short on pressies this year - all lovely from the family of course, and some chicken related - of course, I laid her an enormous egg - 109 grams. One of my mates, we are called "the flock"...

From my three white Leghorns, new flock therefore young, I have a daily egg so far without fail, my 5 Blacktails also produce lovely brown eggs unfailingly, my other two - Sussex hybrids, bought because my daughter-in-law fell in love with them on the spot, are gorgeous girls, have matured into...

Indi, my Cornish game has decided she no longer can tolerate my huge white and black cat Boris when they are out in the garden, usually none of the hens including her takes the least bit of notice of him as he strolls amongst them all unheeded! Cornish game charge head down, full pelt, and...

What is a Whitestar, please anybody? I cannot find out anywhere, the Leghorn bit is obvious. Everybody says hybrid, but crossed with what? Another confusion, when I got my replacement flock in July, I ordered three utility leghorns, white and lovely but that how they came - utility. I would...

This is a serious question, I really do not know if it is alright or not. My Pekins have started laying again after months of being impossibly broody, and I now have a cockerel with them (a quiet one from a quiet egg) but they are a bit young, however, he seems a very busy boy! A few weeks ago...

Hello Rick and welcome from a hen nut and forum member. Lovely to hear of school hatched hens who have not only found a loving home, but been named as well!