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Hello there, we have a flock of 9 girls, all getting on very well. They are a family (two Mums and their chicks of a different age), all in laying age now. One of the hens started to make incredible noise about a week ago. Two other hens do like to join in. They all make very similar noise...

Just a simple question and you will probably think I am a bit :-)07 to ask this question but... Friend of ours had two lots of eggs from reputable breeders of blue orpingtons. Our broody was happily sitting on them (and the other broody is now sitting on the second lot of eggs) but the amount...

Hello, we have a hen that goes in and out of broodiness. Well, we have three of them (Mum and two daughters). As they are our pets I am happy to let the nature to dictate... It is quite difficult to get them out of broodiness anyway. They are very good hens, very devoted and overprotective...

We have a broody hen who goes in and out of broodiness. She is a pet so we try to 'put up' with it as we have few other hens supplying us with just enough eggs for family of four. We have offered her services, basically - she is going to be a surrogate hen for a friend of ours. He will supply...

Hello, I have a supplier of wood shavings (sawdust) and he unfortunately produces more than we can use for our flock. This is a by-product from his workshop so nothing extra fancy; just like shavings you get from pet shop although this is more finely 'grated'. It is clean, dry with no foreign...

Hello, this is a bit of a different post and I just write it down plainly as I can. We have a hen that goes in and out broodiness. She is like a broody machine. We already had two lots of chicks this year and she is in her fourth episode of broodiness this year :-( This means that we are on...

Hello there, our almost 12 weeks old cockerel (not 8 weeks old as stated before) started to crow and it means he has to go :-( (Sorry, got my numbers wrong). My partner is happy to do the 'killing' but I am going to be left with cleaning the bird and getting it ready for the oven. I have...

Hello there, simply trying to find out what breed our broody might be... I guess she is some kind of mix... The eggs are light brown / creamy colour and she has quite feathery legs. She is normal full size hen but I would say eggs are just medium size. Thank you. Here she comes:

Hello there, just wondering - any of you experienced enough in sexing chickens? We have six of them and I tried to have a guess but not experienced enough to bet on my guess :-) They are all 7 weeks old mixed breed although I can tell you that the father is white sussex (nice big cockerel)...

Hello, one of our hens has decided to go broody. We are happy for her to follow the call of nature and initially set aside 6 eggs for her to sit on. We have a cockerel present who seems to be keen enough doing his job regarding the hens :-) What I am not sure about is whether the eggs...

Hello there, we are facing a difficult decision of letting our mini cockerel go as our neighbours set the council on us. He is about 10months old, very happy but quite noisy chap. We would love to find him a place somewhere in countryside where he wouldn't bother anybody. We live on the...

Hello there, Please, can anybody help? We have a problem to 'identify' one of our chicks. I don't really care what breed he/she is as much as I would love to know which gender he/she might be... Two large hens in the picture are definitely young hens.The one we struggle with is the little...

Hello there, I am newbie here and my only problem is the neighbour two houses down the road. We started to keep chickens in our back garden. Our house is almost at the end of the road and our gardens back up to woods. I didn't see any problem with keeping just 5 chickens and we were always...