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Hi, I love reading the posts and topics in the forum and I find it all very interesting and informative :-)17 but for times when I am away from the computer can anyone suggest any literature on keeping/breeding chickens? What sort of books have people got and read, are there any that you...

This is a little bit of a long winded story but some advice is needed..... We currently have 12 chickens - 4 Warrens (age of 3 unkown, about 18 months 1 warren 25 weeks), 1 Cream Legbar (20 weeks - not laying yet), 2 Polish (12 weeks), 2 Araucanas (12 weeks) and 3 Pekin Bantams (10 Weeks?). We...

I am looking for new chickens for my existing flock and fancy a change of colour of egg. I am looking for a dark chocolate egg layer. Does anyone have any experience with Marans or Welsummers? Are theses the best chocolate egg layers or should I be looking at different breeds? And finally which...

I have positioned a run (18m x 5m) up on a raised area in my garden (more like a field than a garden) and thanks to the bad weather it has now turned into a bit of a mud bath. Does anyone have any suggestions what to put on the floor of the run to help with the mud situation? A close friend of...

Hi, I am relatively new to chicken keeping and have 2 Black Rocks (1 year old). We also raised 3 Welsummers from birth - about ten weeks old now. We sadly lost two of our Welsummers to the fox, still not quite sure how, if the chooks got out or he got in. Our run has now been re designed and is...