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Hi everyone, Three and a half weeks ago I hatched 2 LF white Leghorns, and 5 exchequer bantams. All are healthy and very pretty. Problem is this... Are the girls the ones developing long thin tails, and the boys the ones with the very neat small tails and round bums? I shall be really...

Not a new topic, but I need help or advice, please. This lovely has munched her way through the feathers of a cuckoo Pekin and a Bluebell. Needless to say I have tried everything suggested, from spray to neat tuna to pecky thingies hanging up, cannot believe how the tuna vanished or the cries...

Well last night she did it. Sorbet joined!! She was as good as gold, for her it does not get much better when you are cooed over, stroked and petted by a host of young admirers. I took some pictures, be patient - I still do not know how to do it, but I have asked for help, so it will be in...

Sorbet, my granddaughter's lemon cuckoo Pekin is about to join the brownies on Thursday!!!!!! I have made her a uniform, which looks cute off, don't know what it will look like on. Shall I try and post some pictures?, I do not know how, but No. 1 granddaughter has been threatening to show me...

Hello everyone, Can someone tell me when the above chap is likely to start crowing?. I cannot remember at what age the others I have hatched and raised started to crow. This little boy is the most georgeous lavender. He is eventually going down down to Cornwall, but if he starts to crow here I...

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me please, do Silkies come in bantam and LF varieties? I have two pure white Silkies, one tiny size, about 18 months old, and the other about 18 - 20 weeks, twice the size of her, larger than two LC Pekins of the same age. Question is, is Moppet extra tiny, or is...

Can someone please tell me the differences between Warrens, Lohmanns, Isa browns, etc. My only experience with brown girls is with Warrens. I was admiring with my granddaughters yesterday, some lovely calm growers, brown, and asked how much the Warrens were. He said they were Isa browns, not...

Why (apart from the obvious) do we feed layers pellets, why not a corn mixture or other appropriate foods? Can anybody please suggest a really good way to feed both layers (mixed bunch) and pets (Pekins and other bantams). I am getting to dislike the smell of damp pellets when mixed with other...

I am trying to sell this industrial strength ark. It is roughly 8ft long and about a third of that is housing. It has a lift off front for cleaning, lift out interior of the house, and a double lift out perching bar. It has a magnetic pophole, with cord and toggle to open. The ark and run are...

Hello everybody, my 22 week old Birchen hen is going broody I think. Sitting in the (one of two) nest box and growling every time I go anywhere near, being very temperamental and bad tempered, and fluffing up. She does not seem too bothered about sitting duties, though, and thats fine by me...

Comments and suggestions, please. Try as I do, I cannot keep my girls smelling anything to halfway decent, when the torrential rain hits the straw and food and chick poo strewn concrete floor of the runs, and the ones on grass and dirt do not fare much better. Cleaning out and scrubbing is the...

At about what age do LF spurs, i.e. RIR start growing? I think I have a "dont know" hen. I was assured it was a hen by a breeder, and I have managed somehow to hatch a bantam RIR hen with two very large, actually ENORMOUS, siblings, one of which crows. The cockerel that hatched with them was...

Yes, I have one of the above!! 15 weeks old, cute as a button, and very friendly - BUT in the garden the other day something startled her and she simply took off (like a bird). If she had not met with an obstruction, one tree, one high fence, I think she would still be going! She is normally...

Is there a quick, merciful way to do this? Terrible subject as I love all my girls and boys, but as a responsible person, I feel sometime I should learn how to do this in case of accident, or unavailability of vet. It has been bothering me for sometime. I have just found one site that gave...

I think I am suffering from the above disease. I think the cure is to offer to incubate eggs for people and hand over the results for a fee, say £30. What does anybody think? I have an Octogon 20 Eco, last hatch 15 out of 16 - so proud of that! I think it takes 24 hens eggs. Will it be the...

The eggs in question are a complete surprise!! In one run I have a Sablepoot, gold Birchen pekin, and a silkie - all lorded over by a gold partridge Pekin cockerel who does tread rather a lot - I thought to no avail, then the surprise eggs! I do not know which or all of the hens is laying...

Can anyone please tell me of a plastic type of floor, washable, moveable, cut to sizeable, that I can find? Also affordable. I've got concrete for one area, straw, concrete, much waste food, and rain are not a pleasant combination, neither is earth with the above combinations. I thought...

My Jersey giant (big) Ben has just laid her first egg, and although she is large to say the least, her egg is 84g! I hatched her from a batch of six, and the egg she hatched from was small, no larger than a hen's egg - does this mean her eggs will get even bigger as she grows? Sometimes I wish...

At about what age do little Pekin ladies start to lay? I am wondering as Pekin boys seem to crow and tread and ladies of the same age have not yet produced any eggs. Any help please, anyone? - many thanks and regards. They are about 15 weeks old and and look mature size wise.

One of my Light Sussex hens has done it!!!, she was named Hero as she was sickly and weak out of the shell, I did not think she would live till morning, but as you can see she has gone on to bigger and better things - her sister, by contrast , has just laid a first pullet size egg. I took...