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Hello, Olivia rose! Welcome! Dave C, we hatched out Welsummers, Crested Cream Legbars, Plymouth Barred Rocks, French Copper Marans, French Wheaten Marans, Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, and Brahmas. We're trying to build up our breeding stock with better quality birds. It's been work, but so...

Ok, so firstly, let me say "hiya" to the newcomers! Secondly, sorry I haven't been on in a while, but with that huge hatch we did I've been a very busy lady lol. Out of the original 250 eggs, we hatched out a total of 173, we've lost a few since then for various reasons but the majority of them...

I absolutely love my chickens! It is so special to be able to watch a mama and her chicks.

Went out to check on my broody mama and saw this!

Hiya! Welcome to BYC! I know exactly what you mean about restraint lol. I keep wanting to check on our new mama every fifteen minutes lol! She should start hatching tomorrow so now I'm really getting impatient! We originally were just trying to break her of brooding but she wouldn't have it, so...

We have Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, Plymouth Barred Rocks, French Copper Marans, French Wheaten Marans, Welsummers, Cream Legbars, Brahmas, and a few Black Rock hybrids. My favourites are my Brahmas and my Marans. The Brahmas are really friendly and laid back. I don't really have any "mean"...

Hiya! Welcome to the group! I'm not far from you, near to Chester.

That's the same one we had, well still have, but when the hubby decided to do this huge hatch he ordered the new incubator. I love that little one, always worked great!

This is our new incubator, it's a Brinsea 380. Fingers crossed we get some nice pullets! This is the little broody mama.

I'm sorry you've had such a rough year with the vets and all! I hope your broodies work out well! I have one that ids sitting on ten eggs atm, she's actually my nephews chicken but when she wouldn't come out of her brooding we brought her here and gave her some eggs to sit on. Totally new...

We're sitting on a huge hatch atm, 275 eggs in the incubator! The idea was to have Pol hens for springtime. We've got some nice show quality lines in this time as well as a few new breeds just for my interest lol. We're hoping to get a dozen hens of each breed out of this lot. The hubby is...

Hiya murphy! Welcome to BYC! Hiya and welcome to BYC! My husband made all of our coops, as the ones we saw available were either way too expensive or really bad quality. Good luck whatever you choose to do!

We do have a lot of space, the hubby is talking about adding in a small orchard on the other side of the field as well. My father in law built this place up from just a tiny plot with the house and buying the surrounding land as soon as it came available. We are so fortunate to have it!

Glad you got one of them anyway! We're lucky, we have a guy that comes around all season hunting at night. It keeps the numbers down for us. We've been working hard getting our runs into what we want and finally seeing some progress! This is the main gate, which leads to a walkway with pens on...

That is the goal for the most part. It will make selling that much easier. I got quite a surprise today when I went out to feed! My little 3 month old Crested Cream Legbar cockerel has started crowing! Then, I discovered a good size egg in with my Black Rocks! I can't believe they've started...

He's gorgeous! I know what you mean about variety though, now that we've established decent lines were looking at doing some of the more popular hybrids.

Just thought I'd share my baby pictures. My Rhode Island Reds My Plymouth Barred Rocks My Black/Blue Copper Marans My French Wheaten Marans My Light Sussex And my favourite picture I'm loving it! How's everyone else's birds doing?

Out of the 23 eggs that made it to lock down, we hatched out 21 healthy babies!! We ended up with 5 Light Sussex, 5 Barred Rocks, 3 Rhode Island Reds, 4 French Wheaten Marans, 2 Blue Copper Marans and 2 Black Copper Marans. I am thrilled with the hatch and now we can feel confident...

Thank you! The one egg that didn't make it was actually fertile but stopped for some reason. We have 8 babies hatched out so far! These first two hatched out last night lol. The first three out of the incubator, 1 Black Copper and 1 Blue Copper Maran, and 1 Light Sussex. Five others just...

SO very excited here!! Out of the first 24 eggs (from our breeding stock) that we put in the incubator, 23 have made it to lockdown!!!! Went into lockdown yesterday morning and just checked and already have two chipping away!! I love hearing the peeps and pips coming from the bator! So, we have...