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Well...... sitting here and thinking of chickens remembered you all and thought I would post ONE HECK OF A LOT has happened to me since I was last on. I lost my lovely old Phoebe, and the night I had to take her to the vets as she was in too much discomfort, a near relation of her's from the...

Hi all and Happy New Year. I am hoping to get a word press blog up and running and will let you know, but thought you would perhaps like a preview of an old Glamorgan custom that I visited on New Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPgZvMImbC0 Its great to see something which has been going...

I haven't been around for a while and had a message asking if i was OK. Yes hale and hearty (apart from a rubbishy cold keeping me confined for a few days) I posted this somewhere else and laziness has made me use cut and paste. Anyway I hope to get my journal updated soon and will let you...

Me again. One or two folk have asked to be kept in touch with what I am doing and where I am going, so I have started to do a bit of writing about the run up to my adventure. Once on the road there should be photos as well. If you are interested do take a look, and I would like to know how...

Have a good one http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcardm.asp?code=4497531814396&ob=1&cont=1

All my birds were sold some time ago once I decided I was moving, and now the house sale is agreed I am selling off everything which has been amassed here over the years. My family have lived here since the 1950's so you can imagine how much there is to go So there will be a house...

I have 6 duckling for sale. Off heat and all carrying the cresting gene, which means when bred on the offspring have a percentage chance of being crested. They are a very pretty breed, small enough for garden slug duties, and the females lay a good quantity of nicely textured shell white eggs...

Hi All - these are going in the inccy tonight, so I should have some for sale. Check out website for more piccies of eggs and birds PS - One Chocolate Kinder Egg include for comparison

Hi All - What size egg would a large fowl Faverolles hen lay. When would you expect them to come into lay, and as pullets in full lay how many eggs might they produce a week? Many thanks for any info :D

Happy New Year to you all and may 2012 be a real vintage one for us and our birdies :-)17

Hi All - I shall be selling my eggs next year but as they are laying quite well and the cockerels are active I wonder if anyone would like to test some eggs for me. No charge for the eggs. Post and packing for 6 eggs £7 or 12 eggs £9 - I have a good strain of Pure Cream Legbars some lovely...

Hi All - I am trying to get a full range of egg colours, and having currently got brown, blue, green and speckled I am now looking for something to lay a nice white, or creamy white, or pinkish colour medium to large egg I was thinking of maybe Australorp or Salmon Faverolles. Does anyone keep...

Hi All - Having kept my Marans for many years I was taken with the idea of a nice little flock of Cream Legbars as the eggs look so nice together. I bought in loads of eggs this spring, and in fact still have some in the inncy and some on order. But so far I am pleased with the way some of...

I am about to (I hope) put on some photos of my pair of African Geese. They are totally non-aggressive to handle, which was a prime requisite for me with geese. Laid well in their house in a nest they made themselves, and didn't even get cross with me when I took the eggs, which were nearly...

Hi All This year I bought an R-Com King Suro 24 egg Incubator as backup, which thankfully wasn't needed, so has just been unpacked but not used. Open to offers if anyone is interested Also this spring I bought an R-Com 50 which I have used a few times as a hatcher - excellent visibility for the...

Nice young ducklings off heat, very pretty £10 each collect from Worcestershire

Hi there - Does anyone know anything about Cayugas (hope I have spelt that right) I am thinking of utility birds more than show birds. What sort of size to they make, and how quickly do they grow? How many eggs would they lay in a year? What would be the best ratio of males to females? Are...

Hi - this is my first year with adult geese so a few questions if I may First egg appeared this morning, they have been making a bit of a nest and the gander has been mating at least one for a while now. I automatically picked the egg up and took it to the house to admire. Should I have left...

Just found this on-line calculator for poultry costs, but I was too scared to fill it in :D all the best Sue http://www.ruleworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/PulletCost.exe?Guide=Poultry&t=Chicken%20Cost%20Calculator

Hi has anyone kept crested polish, I thought I could remember some discussion about them on this forum in the past. What are they like to keep? Being crested are the difficult to hatch or raise. How many eggs do they lay a year, and how many hen to cocks etc. Many thanks for any info Sue