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Tomorrow lunchtime Im off to collect five new pekin girls. Four blue and a cuckoo, my christmas present from my son :D Im not so sure my girls will be as pleased with them as I am :-)10

After losing my cockerel a relative kindly surprised me with another orpington boy. He is a year old and apparently was living with a group of hens and a cockerel. He is a nice lad, really big but still looks a little immature. He has moved in with no problems from the girls aside from a few...

I don't actually believe this has happend to my poor bird after he survived a horrible virus. Yesterday I noticed Grayson was very quiet and lethargic, I had been out for the day saturday and left my son to let them out and they were already in bed when I got home. So I dont know if he was ill...

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Yesterday one of my new mulberry blue bantams was egg bound. She walked about all day looking very droopy. She was straining nearly all day and her vent was very red and looked swollen. I put her under a heat lamp, syringed a litle olive oil in and around her vent, I could see the egg bulging, I...

And it feels like six months :-)09 what an introduction I've had, but has it put me off, nope just love having the chooks. As some of you know I bought my very first chickens from an auction, not something I ever intend to do again. I bought a pair of blue splash orpingtons and three columbian...

My chicken run was 15ft by 10ft, today I have extended it to, ( ok my partner did ) 25ft by 10ft. Their shed is 10ft by 8ft. I also picked up two new hens today so now I have the two orpingtons and three brahma bantams and two mulberry blue bantams. Do you think that the run is a sufficient size...

Hi, I have just bought five chickens, ( 5th may) two orpingtons and three brahma's. They have a 10 x 8 shed as a coop with a 15 x 10 run attached. They all settled down easily from the off and were eating well. Until last thursday, they went into bed all ok on the weds night and when I let them...