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Hi All, the short version is, I am in the UK and am looking for the largest silkies I can get. Very happy to hatch posted or collected eggs, but also would be interested in birds. Long version is; I have a mixed flock currently and though I have enjoyed seeing what has come out of the random...

I use an organic feed for my flock, not so much for the chickens or myself but because I believe organic agriculture is preferable for the environment, especially cereal agriculture. In the U.K. there only seems to be one readily available organic feed range and that is by "the organic feed...

Hi All, I have not posted in a long time as my questions have all been answered with a search, however I can find very little information about this. My current flock is my first laying flock, They range in age from 8-10 months old (roughly) they are also a mix of different breeds. Recently they...

I have my first laying flock coming in to lay now and am raising them in deep litter, I have found a few eggs slightly buried in the litter. I raised some broilers in deep litter and I was very happy with the method and have continued to be until they started laying. I've read another thread...

Hello all, I have a young flock of mixed breeds and mixed ages, ranging from 8 weeks to 3 weeks. I thought I had a decent plan for males but I am now rethinking it. Firstly I should say that the younger chicks are separate, but in the same area, I was hoping to fully mix all ages this weekend...

Are some chicken breeds and chicken features purely ornamental? I have just hatched some sultans and I bought the eggs because they looked like fun chickens and I knew my girlfriend would love them. I also have some silkies and a marans. All these chicks are feather footed and it seems to do...

Hi all, I have had a recent hatch of 4 cream legbars (sold as such, slightly greenery blue eggs). Three seemed to me to be pullets and the fourth was very very pale, did not look like the pictures I have seen of CL chicks, but did have the correct pattern just very very washed out to yellow...

Hi all, I have a single wheaten marans chick, when it first hatched I thought it was a male because it had a relatively well developed comb. I also looked at it's vent and saw what seemed like a male bump, but I am very new to chickens and don't have any confidence in what I saw, I know vent...

I have recently hatched out a mixture of eBay eggs, including some barred rocks, marked as such by the seller. Three of the six eggs made it to hatch and I got two pullets and I thought one cockerel, as it was much lighter. As the paler chick fluffed up, it seemed much to light; That is the...

Hello all, I have made an introduction thread in the new member area but thought it best to tell the details of my chicken journey here as I have been and am hatching rolling batches of eggs and have plenty of questions I'd appreciate some input on. I started out getting some Ross 308 broilers...

Hi All, I am a young man living in London in a shared house with 5 others, we have a reasonable size garden for London and last summer I got started with some production gardening (quite a bit too late in the year). I quickly decided that keeping chickens was a sensible approach and started...