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We get jackdaws in our garden; they're quite cute to watch. The only time they cause any trouble is when they build a nest in the chimney & fall down the flue into the log burner. We've still got soot in our lounge curtains from the last time- the dilemma is whether to let them out while...

It took a while for my pullets to get to grips with "training mode 2" where the treadle and the lid both moved a bit. But having given them several weeks to get used to it, they didn't bat an eyelid when I removed the training bolts to make the feeder fully operational & rat proof. Now the rats...

Welcome Trevor & a very happy Christmas.

If you're planning to come to East Kent again, do let me know. If I'm not in the middle of teaching a glass class, I'd love to buy you & Mrs BYM a drink. The same goes for Margaid & HenGen, though it's a long way for you!!

You won't be needing a turkey then 😄

Oohh, Christmas Eve, I should think. Then drinks in our local pub, built in the 1500s from old ships' timbers & with a huge inglenook that you could sit in.

Oh, and it seems that the magnolia colour eggs are from Eleanor, the partridge leghorn. I was wondering, when I got her, what made her a hybrid when my previous leghorns were pure breeds. Clearly she's part leghorn & part something that lays pink eggs! Any idea what the combination could be?

Yesterday when I went to do the poo picking, Sweep (the Speckledy) was snuggled in the coop on top of 3 eggs. I picked them up & popped them into the nest box & she moved in there to sit on them. This morning I was delighted to find a Speckledy egg in the nest box with Tigger's egg. Now I could...

Th That makes me Naughty Butternut. I'm picturing a butternut squash cooked with a whole head of garlic, 4oz butter, some double cream and a large glug of brandy. That should do it! Oh, and maybe some boursin mixed in.

Hi Ricky. While waiting for a reply from someone who knows more about quail than me, is it possible to isolate the sick birds from the others & to treat the ground in the enclosure with ground sanitising powder?

I got the answer last Sunday, when I found a lovely milk chocolate coloured egg in the coop, rounder in shape than the other brown ones & 8g heavier. So now four of my five pullets are in lay & they're averaging 3 eggs per day between them. Tigger the cream legbar hybrid has both next boxes...

The mystery egg was magnolia yesterday, so perhaps some people might describe it as cream? There are some references online to partridge leghorn hybrids laying cream eggs... I'm just hoping that they aren't the speckledy's eggs. If they are, then the Marans is laying "supermarket brown " eggs...

Ne'er a truer word was spoken... This morning I found three small but perfectly formed eggs! Now there's a bit of a puzzle... In September I bought four point of lay pullets - three hybrids (cream legbar, speckledy and a partridge leghorn) and a pure breed black copper French Marans, together...

Wow. That's all you need: Mafioso squirrels... :mad:

Welcome, Clucking Grandpa. I got my first French Marans in September. She's just started squatting, so hopefully I'll be getting some lovely dark brown eggs in the nex couple of months. When you hear old-timers on the formum talk about dark brown eggs by the way, don't be surprised if you...

A conversation that I might have overheard between my young PoL pullets yesterday... Tigger (the cream legbar hybrid): "I don't know what Mum put into our layers' pellets yesterday, but I don't half feel constipated today. I feel really weird." Eleanor (the partridge leghorn): "Well the rest...

Yesterday I found a rat half in & half out of a bait box, deceased. That's one way of it warning its family off eating the poison...

I was picturing you eating air fried rats for a moment. Then I twigged that it must be the squirrels that you eat! I guess you use the fur too? I've had a squirrel snuggle up under my fleece before, and its fur was very soft... I don't mind squirrels in our garden. But the moment they get into...

Ohhh.... I'm jealous. I've never seen any of those in real life apart from one red squirrel. Why would anyone go on a sun & sangria holiday when they could have a trip like yours???

I've never had such jumpy pullets before...