Posts by pgpoultry

Here she is, Flower.....   The look and size of Blackchops my over-sized NN hen about her....and still on my lap.

Sargent looks lovely.....pretty boy.   I think the crested NNs are VERY cool.   My Marv is looking like a very big (and very spoilt) girl........here she is sitting on my lap. She flies up immediately that I let her...

Thank you for your replies folks.   Sumi....I'd known there was a chart somewhere, just didn't know where to find it.Thank you so much for the link. From those pics., about day 13, I would say.   The embryos are still...

10 days ago I lost a lovely hen to fox predation.She had decided to brood under a bush and I didn't know she was out, as they free range over a large site and I have too many chickens already. Just a day later when I left the house to...

Permethrin used to be (but no longer is) used for human head lice in Britain. It is an insecticide. I have just used it (in ready diluted spray form) for red mite and it has proven to be very effective.   On this side of the...

Those crested birds are amazing.   If it is any help Georgia Boy 1970, this girl has similar colouring on her back feathers. She is a cross between a Warren (similar to ISA Brown) and a Blue Partridge Brahma and has the most...

Aoxa....sorry you lost that barred and very naked boy.I lost a lovely hen who was trying to go broody (stayed out under the hedge and was taken by a fox last night).....seems the best are always lost!   Chicken Frenzie.....how...

KKH....these are such good flyers, they may just bring THEMSELVES on vacation.   I'm sorry to hear that so many people of lost NNs due to weather, predation etc. It's horrid to lose them.

Kev......3 out of 22 chicks female.....now that's MY type of hatch. My last hatch was 5/5 male, and a hatch I had a while ago was 9/11 male (Brahmas). Statistical probabilities and all that.....but I felt the dice was loaded (being...

Moregrey.....no, it's a bit weak really......Moregrey and Lessgrey are daughters of Littlegrey who is daughter of the matriarch Mrs Grey (who is a big grey hen!). Littlegrey was so named as she was smaller than the huge Mrs Grey and...