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EMPEROR GEESE WANTED! I am looking for some more Emperor geese to join my girls - boys & girls welcome, youngsters preferred but any age considered & would hugly appreciate any info on breeders in the north of the UK. (We are based near York) Although i've hatched a couple of these very pretty...

Hi folks! I'm going to sound like a complete pekin novice, but i promise i'm not! I got given this guy a while back & i'm just checking that he is what i think! As far as i know he's technically a "chocolate partridge" pekin??? But i've never heard of that colour?!!! I was going to breed him to...

I've just been looking through some old pictures of my birds & have come across this picture!!! :-)19 It's of my extremely broody Cornish Game bantam hen 'Hag' (whos is VERY reliable for hatching & brooding 3-4 lots of eggs per year!) who was doing a great job of sitting on a batch of her...

HELP! Has anyone had any chicks that turn around while hatching & hence getting stuck?!! I've started breeding off some LF Light Sussex chicks i bred last year & have never had any hugely noticeable hatching problems with either strain, until recently! Info about the breeding group i'm having...

Help! After the loss of our old codger silkie cocky "Mr.Cocky" :cry: i've recently bought a young silkie cocky "Boris" to replace him & 2 young hens "Tiny Tina" & "Tiny Tina's Sister"!! (from seperate lines - the hens were to add new bloodlines to my stick) all from the same breeder. We've had...

We hatch quite alot of eggs each year & every so often get an odd wierd 1 hatch in amongst a whole load of pure breds! :lol: :lol: All we do then i rear them to a stable age & try to find them homes! We no longer have this 1 as a friend took it at 16weeks & then sadly the fox got it :cry...

Help! (Tim or someone whos knows as much might be best to answer this!) My latest hatch of chicks have hugely filled croups! (The 1s that are having problems are 3 pekins & 2 silkies) Should i give them oil & see if it shorts itself? & how much oil should i give? I usually use vedgetable oil is...

Guess what? We're on maternity leave! Latest chicks are hatching...mixtures of Australorps, black Pekin bantams & silkie bantams but they're due over the mext few days...1st's just hatched! Will keep updating! Amy x