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Hi, anyone know why our Cream LegBar chicken (believed to be a distant Fenton descendant) has had a partial moult BUT has grown back a beautiful grey & white tail plus patches of single or small groups of grey & white feathers. She's such a beautiful bird with normally perfect markings so this...

Had been away on a really enjoyable much needed holiday (UK) and went to collect our 'flock' from where they board, this time 13 nights, one of the owners went off to fetch all ours but returned saying he had some bad news - one of ours (Maisie) had died in the nestbox, was lying on her side and...

Our other chickens began molting late last year, finished at the start of this month and we've been getting eggs again. However our 18 month old Buff Sussex began her molt almost a month ago, stopped laying completely, has lost quite a few feathers whilst pretty much maintaining her (voracious)...

Hi, have a 13 month old Buff Sussex who's not been through a moult but stopped laying when the other chickens who were moulting did. She's now started to lay again but for the last month she either lays really soft or tissue paper thin shells and so the eggs are useless. She's eating very...

She'd only been with us 7 months but made a lasting impression in her short life. Nothing we nor the vets could do to save her, tried everything, wormers, antibiotics, vitamins, tonics, no idea even why she was 'poorly' - ate very well, grew bigger in size but never put bulk or weight on, full...

Hi, this is our new sign for the extensions to our run & coop. Designed and painted by our talented 13yr old daughter Els ! Eggs are the chickens egg colours with their initials beneath ! Anyone else care to share ?

What colour eggs should our 'Copper Blue Maran / Cream LegBar cross' actually lay please ?? We have her (Olive) and a 'Buff Sussex' (Maisie) both yet to start laying and this afternoon I found a rounder, shiny dark redish-brown egg in the main coop and not the nestbox, plus our other brown egg...

Hi, have a young (maybe 13-14wk) Blue Copper Maran / Legbar cross. Which of the breeds is 'dominant' in a cross like this, will she grow to the size of a Maran but with Legbar characteristics or stay smaller as a Legbar but looking more like a Blue Copper Maran please ?

Hi all, Just to let you know we collected our 2 newest (and youngest ever) girls on Friday - sisters for Dottie & Lexie who were missing Ruby (had to have her put to sleep 2wks ago), have now got Maisie a 15wk old Buff-Sussex, and Olive a 12-13wk old Blue Copper Maran/Legbar cross. Olive is...

Hi, anyone else had any crows, pigeons or squirrels invade their chicken run after food ? Having had some unusually hot weather the last few days, I've been out on the garden and alottment patch so leave the bottom 'ranch door' to the run open just a quarter so the girls can come & go, feed...

Hi everyone, pictures are of Lexi, our youngest / newest hen who has just begun laying (Saturday, Sunday & today Tuesday). :celebrate Wouldn't normally bother, but she was purchased as a "Needwood Blue, based on the Cream LegBar" and we were told to expect pale blue or green eggs. Now she's...

Morning all, Am having a re-think about the floor in the chickens run, was originally grass but once they were let loose on it it's now just mud/dirt and has been for a long while. Am going to skim it (compressed poo etc) and loosen the top layer but as it's not lawn mowing weather the girls...

Hi, Yesterday we sadly lost our oldest 'hybrid' Speckledy Hen - Dixie :hit She was approx 3yrs old but after a really heavy 'colour changing' moult she never really seemed to get back to 100% no matter what we did......... Harder is that she's the 2nd we've lost in 6wks, Zoe was our beautiful...

Hi everyone, yes, new here, but been keeping these wonderful creatures for over 6yrs.......the highs and lows ! Now on chickens numbers 7,8,9 & 10. Lost 3 and had to retire 3 to a friends farm when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and we just couldn't give them the time and love...