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Hi everyone, have not posted for a while, have you missed me? Just a posting to evoke a few smiles and the purists criticism. All my bantams 4 Pekins and one Silkie cross went broody at the same time. Decided not to do the too cruel to mention bottom in a bucket treatment but just to leave...

It is my understanding that chickens do not have waterproof feathers, silly girls sometimes just hang around and get soaked to the skin. I was told that a few shakes will repel a bit of water on them, but they are not like ducks and other water birds, and lack the oily substance in feathers...

I have almost a complete bale of the above bedding needing a good home, collection only of course. I live in Camberley, please be in touch if you are interested.

Is it possible for a Pekin to change feather type, because she has, I think? My lavender Pekin, Yoko, underwent a moult recently and has emerged with blunt ended feathers which look a bit awry to say the least, she looks like a demi-frizzle or frizzlet. Still the same dear girl, but with a...

Does anyone who lives in or near Frimley or Camberley know of a chicken sitter? I have meant to try and get someone for some time now. my daughter-in-law usually does it for me, but now has 11 month old twins, and it is not fair to expect it of her. I will happily pay for a couple of daily...

Great excitement, my Starry has laid her first egg. It is a beautiful turquoise, and not tiddly at all. I've waited 29 weeks for this event! I must admit I thought it was never going to happen. She came from the most lovely colour and confirmation egg, so, like mum, like daughter...

I bought a chicken hut that does not fit the run intended for it, so I am selling it on immediately. It is 34" high, 35.5" wide, and 18" deep, the nest box is external, a good size and well divided, and half of the roof lifts for cleaning. It cost £79 flatpack, my son assembled it, and we...

Hello all, feel as if I've been hibernating, the sultry weather really gets to me. Just a few answers if possible, please, from anyone who knows. 1. Should a Silver Sussex's legs be black? - I suspect not. 2. At about what age does a C Legbar start laying? she is 21 weeks old, my hatchling...

If anyone has any electric netting for sale, I would be delighted to hear from you, with the price please. I don't know anything about it, except that it seems very expensive new, so secondhand will be great.

Morning all, up very bright and early so I thought I would give my thoughts on beak bits. After the marathon with my Whitestar, who was responsible for seriously harrying past chickens, being separated, then being OK of her own accord, I saw it was time to arrest, separate and put beaks on the...

I'm lookingfor a large Brinsea brooder, used, but in vgc. I'm reluctant to pay about £70 for one unless I know they really are good and work, so looking for secondhand or unwanted. I will need it in about a month or so. Are they as economical to run as advertised?. I feel it must be better then...

Can anyone please tell me if it is true that it is best not to mix vac. and non-vac. hens?. If they can be mixed eventually, after about what sort of period? I want to give my 2 absolutely huge and beautiful Croad L. girls more room, their holding pen is now small for them, and the weather is...

Does anyone have 2 POL Whitestars or POL white Leghorns, for sale, please, and if so the price? I found my new Whitestar replacement dead on Christmas evening, I was so looking forward to her white eggs soon.

Any ideas or comments, please anybody? My grandaughter's lemon cuckoo has gone broody. I don't mind, but she still has a 3 month old son, who will not leave her alone, he loves his mum! The son is a frizzle lavender cockoo (ad. on this site), from bought in eggs, but a real mummy's boy. Only...

This ark is practically new. It has three access doors, one in the wire mesh, one at the non-housing end, and one in the house. It has nest box and perch and retails currently for £165. I would like £75, a picture of it is available on ebay for the next day or so.

Is it possible that an Orpington cockerel can tread a Pekin hen, or likely? I hatched mixed colours of purebreed Pekins, all the eggs were Pekin so mum must be a Pekin. One of them is the most stunning coal black girl, looks like a Pekin, but has only got very fine leg feathers, and no foot...

Can anyone help, please, with this question? Is it possible (or advisable) to remove eggs already in an incubator for 10 days, to under a broody hen to continue hatching them? I have a young and newly broody Pekin, and wondered if it is a shame to waste her talents or not? The chicks-to-be are...

My lovely, bright buff Sussex is fluffed up, depressed and just hanging around, any ideas anyone, please? She is about 18 months or so, came through a dreadful moult to be absolutely beautiful again, and now this. She is eating and drinking but has stopped laying again, but they have just...

Does anyone have any of the above eggs spare for sale, please? I knew if I felt broody, I would have to do something about it, so decided to add to my little flock of lovely girls, and some white and red pure plain ones would be perfect. Many thanks, regards, Valerie.

Hello Bigaxe Welcome to the forum, wish you lived in NW Surrey, I need a pen like yours!! have asked my son for some such, it looks good and would look great in my back gardern. How far are the posts apart, and were they 8' long? Oh yes, we have it all planned! I have just had a huge brown egg...