Recent content by achnaha burdz

Hi Folks, Considering bringing some day olds to add to my broodies clutch, any reasons why It wont work or tips to make it work be appreciated. The broody I think is sitting on infertile eggs and the numbers are changing due to crows / snakes / other chickens so to get her off the nest without...

Our temperature rarely goes below 0'c, which is nice, however we do suffer pretty horrendous SW winds. Though the chicken coop is ventilated the temp is very warm in the morning, probably around 24c in the morning and my concern is that they be too warm, spending best part of 16 hrs indoors at...

All is going well, learning the natural behaviour is fun, they moved house last night, which seemed to go well, & is hopefully predator proof. They have integrated with the rest of the flock & all, just about, seems well.

Me too, see what happens.

We have 2 chicks, left the other eggs 3 days, we let the mother & chicks out with the rest of flock for an hour today, all was good. They have grown somewhat from these pictures last Monday I think

2 healthy chicks, 2 eggs without a pip. As it was our broody hens 1st time being allowed to hatch her own I didn't want to put too many in, she is 3 years old & always been discouraged by her previous keeper, so 2 healthy birds are good. She will not relax to feed, or show the young how to feed...

Our first chick hatched overnight, 0900hrs here, and am fascinated, once again, by the natural behaviour of animals. Ronnie, the proud dad, like most males, is all over the place and showing obvious signs that all is not normal, the bluebells are intrigued and being nosey and Lily the collie has...

Thanks so much for the kind thoughts re Pretty, her pal Lulu took it badly & for a week or so decided to use our lounge to lay, which was sweet, & ridiculously wrong on my part, but hey ho they are all part of the family. Winnie attacks our collie Lily at any opportunity, Lulu & Coco come in...

Thanks for letting us join. The BYC site has been great, so much detail and comprehensive coverage of all things chicken.I have a croft, smallholding, in Achnaha, a very remote place on the Ardnamurchan peninsula NW Scotland. I spent a few years here as a child and left as soon as I could...