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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Glad this was helpful - Now chicks are at 6 days just leave a dryish batch of FF with them and nothing else - break it up with your fingers if needed. As soon as they are hungry and one tries it they will all get the hang of it. Good luck.
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    I started Fermenting for my flock a couple of months ago and am thrilled with the results. I have started this year's chicks on it right away. I have had one hatch which I have brooded under a heat plate. The chicks didn't realise that the FF was food at first, so I gave them some chick crumbs...
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    Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

    I have chicks from my RIR roo over CCL hens. They are six weeks old. It have one who looks just like a CCL and looks like a roo, then two who are more RIR coloured with slight barring, one more than the other, I can't decide if the more barred one looks like a roo. Is this a sex linked cross? I...
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    Advice please - Embryos all stuck to side

    That's great - thank you very much. Will do this and see if there is an improvement. Weird about the Brinsea instructions! Cheers.
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    Advice please - Embryos all stuck to side

    This is what the Brinsea instructions say: 7 Egg Turning 7.1 Mark each egg with a pencil “X” one side and “O” the other. This ensures that you can see which eggs you have turned. Turn three times a day starting on the second day. 7.2 Always turn about the pointed end to reduce the chance of...
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    Advice please - Embryos all stuck to side

    Yes, that is what I have been doing. Should I have been rolling them a quarter turn? I will carry on correctly and see what happens. Thanks for the prompt reply.
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    Advice please - Embryos all stuck to side

    I have just bought a second incubator (Basic Brinsea Mini Eco) to use mainly as a hatcher. Up to now I have only hatched in a Brinsea Octagon 20 with auto turning cradle. I couldn't resist setting eggs in the Mini Eco when I set some in the Octagon as I wasn't sure of fertility rates of young...
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    Is anyone locking down for Avian flu?

    Had this text from APHA (Animal and Plant Health Authority yesterday.... APHA: The Avian Influenza Prevention Zone covering England will be amended on 28 February. Plans for expected enhanced biosecurity in England have been announced by Defra. More info at www.gov.uk/defra Basically there is...
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    Is anyone locking down for Avian flu?

    We have used scaffold netting to cover our electric fence, fixed with cable ties. We have had to section of a small area of the run. Seems to work OK, problem is when it gets wet it soaks my back when I'm in the run! The chickens don't seem to mind it though.
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    Is anyone locking down for Avian flu?

    I have a Black Australop cockerel with three wives, one buff Orpington, one Speckled Sussex, quite a few white leghorns (9?) some Light Sussex, Rhode Island Reds including a Cockerel, a Couple of Peking bantams, a Buff Sussex and various hybrids. This year I am going to breed more Australians to...
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    Is anyone locking down for Avian flu?

    Oh dear, poor you - what a difficult first winter for you. I am struggling as I have 40 birds and usually keep them in electric fence runs (two separate pens) on new grass every six weeks. Lots of little feet mushing up the ground and no grass to be seen now. Will probably put down some bark...
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    Is anyone locking down for Avian flu?

    Oh dear, that is so sickening. Can your tunnel be re-erected? Everything is such a soggy mess now. Really hope the lockdown is not extended beyond February.
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    Topic of the Week - Broilers and other table birds

    I have been trying different pure breeds and my own hybrids for meat. So far I have found Australorps and Ixworth are very good pure breeds, Australorps x Buff Sussex was also good. I free range them in electric netting with the rest of the flock until they are 16 or so weeks of age, then pen...
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    Mixed Breed Photo Reference *please read guidelines in first post before adding content*

    Welsummer too x speckled Sussex hen
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    Mixed Breed Photo Reference *please read guidelines in first post before adding content*

    Welsummer roo x Light Sussex hen pullet =red sex link. Boys were very like Light Sussex, some with a slight peach tinge, tasted good
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    I think I have a rooster.should I keep him if he is?

    I have a seven year old leghorn in my flock who had no roo with her until a year or so ago. She used to be head hen, but she is very happy with my roo who grew up in her pen. I currently have two roosters in two separate pens with about 25 layers each. One of the Roos started with 7 hens. The...
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    Black with orange chest

    Looks quite similar to some birds I hatched which were black Australorp roo x buff Orpington or Buff Sussex hen.
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    Today is 22nd day broody hen on eggs-How long?

    This is one of my Australorp babies
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    Today is 22nd day broody hen on eggs-How long?

    Australorp cocks are all black, huge and fluffy. This is mine - 'Bruce' I don't know what yours is but he's a handsome boy. Could be worth posting in 'What breed or gender is this?' section and someone may have an idea
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    Today is 22nd day broody hen on eggs-How long?

    Ahhhh, they are lovely. Are they Australorps? Really glad it worked out for you.
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