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Rhode Island Reds in their new home Rocky "The Rock Star" Rhodes, showing off to his girls! Ginger, with Rocky's back end! Red is the other side of him

meet my new arrivals (there's 5) - a friend's daughter's school does the whole incubating/hatching thing & the kids can buy the chicks. The little monkey had money & permission for a few.... and used her pocket money & changed the figure to come home with 9!! trouble is, they don't know what...

I thought I'd tell you a little story of my little Welsummer pullet's amazing recovery from a near-death experience.... so many threads on the health board are tales of woe ;) "Wellie" as she has become known (there are two of the same age & size in the "Big Shed" - you cant tell them apart!)...

as the title says, Aylesbury drakes for sale in central Derbyshire. beautiful white with yellow legs & beaks, and a "drake feather" approx 8 months old (I'll have to check my old diary!) and in need of some lovely ladies who they arent related to :o they are used to a paddling pool pond and...

to wait for little fluffy chicks! :D I have enough eggs to fill the incubator, first set of the year. they are currently settling (posted) and the incy warming. I'm just very impatient :-)07 and cant wait for them to hatch - been waiting ages, it feels like ;) light sussex by the...

Wanted, Derbyshire - posting is fine Light or buff Sussex hatching eggs Large fowl please max 25 reasonable prices please....

this is Daffy ..... she has, as you can see, a twisted beak, like a smile. she has always been a loner but never struggled with the beak. however, she is now looking really thin and has got quite muddy and is reluctant to swim. we "dipped" her to get the mud off and clean her beak, her...

I've trawled through other threads, and online chicken health advice .... but nothing quite matches what's up with my young hen. She is about 8 months old, not yet started laying. Today when we went to feed & water, she was lying just outside the pop-hole. I picked her up, she only open one...

my beautiful black copper Marans have laid their first eggs today!! they hatched in the summer of 2010, our first successful attempt at incubation, and we had resigned ourselves to having to wait til Spring for eggs. but there today were three lovely, tiny dark eggs! we have 2 bcms ... so now...

abit of backround first ;) .... we have a mixed "big shed", containing a variety of breeds & ages of pullets but all hatched during 2010. none have laid yet. some are too young to sex, we have parted with cockerels once we are sure. we found dead a Derbyshire redcap & a plymouth barred...

sorry for the abbreviations ;) our flock have just had wormer and a course of Baytril antibiotic, after losing several hens and quail chicks to possible coccidiosis.... possible gapeworm they are alot perkier, and I have bought some apple cider vinegar to try and keep them them perky...

my 5 new, two week old Aylesbury ducklings (yes, one is dark... there is apparently a wild gene in there somewhere down the line! :lol: ) I have a question... we are currently building their "run" outside, with a house one end, and the pond the other so they don't splash the chickens! when it...

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hi does anybody keep Derbyshire Red Caps? we have hatched 8 from the incubator, they are 4 1/2 weeks old. they were different colours, some quite yellow and some a lovely deep orange. now they have the "proper" feathers and just their heads are different. I wondered if anybody else could kept...

I currently have some runner duck eggs in the incubator. I've read up that much I've confused myself... and am now not sure when I should the auto turner off?! Is it like hens - 3 days before hatching? And just how many days should runners take? cos my book says ducks vary between 25,28 &...

glad you didn't end with "turkey" ...not sure that'd go down so well !! ;)

hello folks... We have successfully hatched our first 7 chicks in the incubator (4 light sussex and 3 copper marans) the oldest is a week today, the rest came out last thursday/friday they are drinking and eating chick crumbs really well and are in a big cage under the heat lamp. just started...

hi folks just a general survey... where do you purchase your eggs from to put into an incubator? Any preferences for particular places? cheers

Hello from Derbyshire :D We have... 4 warrens (since they were 13 weeks old) a black silkie cockerel, 11 ex - batteries( and 12 copper marans & 12 light sussex eggs in the incubator!) 7 jap quail, and assorted other pets and livestock. We lost one hatched and 3 in shell chicks (our...