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Hi, I've just been reading all the posts about quail purely out of interest as I've never considered them before, but they seem charming little things! Anyway, I was just wondering how you physically manage to clean them out? I mean, if they are in a rabbit hutch on a concrete base for example...

I was wondering whether anyone has experience of cockerels getting along? I have a Wyandotte bantam cockerel, about 18 months old I believe, and he's in with two hens. I have also hatched out 3 chicks, now 13 weeks old, who are Wyandotte bantam/Welsummer chicken crosses. One is a cockerel and...

If your Welsummer is starting to moult be prepared for a shock - mine looks like a proper welfare case when she's moulting; it's amazing what a scrawny scruffy state they can become! Although she didn't get that bad until she was over a year old. She's moulting now and looks half her normal size.

I have very recently moved my chickens into a new coop: Three nights ago I moved them out of their old house (an Eglu) after they'd gone to bed, and put them in the new house (Green Frog Lodge). Ditto the following night. Yesterday the Eglu was locked up and they went into the new house to roost...

My three chicks, hatched (in an incubator) from a pure Welsummer hen and a bantam Wyandotte (he was a GL x SL I think and was a beautiful silver colour with very little lacing) I love that I have three completely different looking chicks. They are five-and-a-half weeks old in these shots. The...

Hi I hope I'm not asking a question already asked - I've had a good look through and can't find exactly the same issue raised elsewhere, so here goes: I'm wondering about introducing a young cockerel to an existing one. Basically I have an existing flock of 2 hens and 1 cockerel, and I have 3...

Hi everyone, I hope you didn't draw a heavy sigh at the subject line: I know there's a few threads about plastic houses which I've read with interest. Like many others before me I'm looking to replace my coop. I currently have an Eglu (housing a Welsummer, an ex-batt and a Wyandotte cockerel)...