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Hello Scubamedic. Welcome to the forum, with or without chickens. Who knows, you may get the chickens again?

Hello Hawker13 -welcome to the forum. We have a few large owls flying past the house at night and buzzards and small hawks in the day but that's the closest I ever get to a bird of prey. That's a pretty comprehensive collection of birds you've got.

Our pet cockerel has just started doing what I can only describe as 'explosive poo'. A big watery splat containing undigested pellets, grit and anything else just eaten. Covers quite an area as well. I think his digestive system is reacting to one of his recent treats -he does love bananas. The...

Hello TDK Poultry and welcome to the forum. Wish you the very best of luck with your venture. Just before we left Staffordshire most of the domestic Poultry Suppliers had gone out of business. A lot of people started with chickens and then got wiped out by foxes and packed in. People like...

Hello SimonS and welcome. Look forward to your questions. You'll find plenty of sound advice on this forum and it has helped me a lot in the past few years.

Hello Tamz08 and welcome. Sounds like your setup and experience is similar to mine, except we haven't any geese. We had chicks this time last year but struggled to keep them (and us) warm during the long cold Dordogne Winter. Perhaps we'll hatch in Spring and then struggle to keep them cool in...

Hello Poots and welcome to the forum. I'm as impressed as Marigold as I still struggle with posting photos and my avatar needs updating because Claude's son Jean-Claude is even more handsome. A fine looking trio of birds. Two hens and a cockerel I guess.

Hi Lorna and welcome to the forum. We have had holidays in Cornwall and Devon but are now a fair bit further away from the Midlands. I was in Newquay in the Summer of 1976 when everything was totally scorched including me. Newquay Steam Lager rings a few bells.

We had two Blue Laced Wyandottes showing the same symptoms. Solid crop, not eating or drinking, no poos other than a tiny trickle which smelt terrible and some loss of weight. They were both moulting. Tried treating for crop impaction without success. They were both being bullied and hiding in...

Hi Flintspark (Barb) and welcome to the forum. NZ is one of the places I've always wanted to visit. Gave serious thought to emigrating there 40 years ago. Spent 5 years working for a NZ guy called Alan Gibbs -we were designing (badly) an amphibious car called the Aquada. Now I design and build...

Amazing photos BamBam. But my connection isn't fast enough to load them all. Guess I've got more to learn from you than you have from me.

Hi Tatty Head and welcome to the forum. I lived in and around Derby for many years (25?). I was there last month to see my Dentist. Hope your chickens get better soon.

Hi Ontombose and welcome to the forum. Pretty addictive hobby you are embarking on. Morehens disease is contagious.

Hi Bigray and welcome to the forum. I'm from roughly your area. Lived in Derby for years and worked in Sandiacre. Large garden is great. First thing would be to check the security against foxes or dogs. Then make sure the neighbours won't have a problem because even hens can be noisy sometimes.

Hi Grampazipperneck and welcome to the forum. Whereabouts in the world are you?

Hello Nacarona and welcome to the forum. We had a female Mallard rescued as a 2 day shivering chick who we called 'Lucky Duck". She flew at just 10 weeks which was amazing to see (a few crash landings)!

Guess it will be very different for you Clansman. But as you have kept a private flock before you will know the score -at pure breed prices you don't diagnose by post mortem. Chuck has White Leghorns, but not sure how far away you are. RIR's are nasty in my experience and the Pure breeds are not...

I've been experimenting with a DIY process for drying unseasoned timber to use in the wood burner. It must be lower than 20% humidity otherwise the flue soots up. 25% of the water content is 'cellular entrapment', which means you have to break the cells open to get the water out. This is...

We had a coop made of that imported wood. It came free with three hybrids; the original owners realised immediately that the run was too small and started building a bigger one. But two weeks later the husband developed a chronic allergy to chicken feather dust and they had to go. The coop...

Hi Jacqfrost and welcome to the forum. First thing I would say would be to double your expenditure on a coop and buy something re-saleable. I am not keen on Bluebells -funny natured things and ours was a problem. Perhaps think of a plastic second-hand coop (wood has pest issues).