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    Unusual quail colour

    Hi everyone I am posting on behalf of my daughter (age 8). She started keeping Coturnix quail this year (She has been interested in them for a couple of years and the other half and I decided that she is both ready and serious so we helped her get started) We bought a group of four quail, one...
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    The last brahma

    It is a sad morning. Yesterday we noticed that Clara the blue partridge brahma was oddly quiet. We brought her in last night and made her comfortable, she had good colour and no obvious symptoms beyond a slight wheeze and just sitting quietly. We were hoping it was a cold and she would be...
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    Advice needed, chicken run floor.

    Hi all, after losing four ducks to predators we put up new fencing along the path side of the garden (the vulnerable side) and a new lockable gate into the area. As we had already built new housing (also predator proof) we decided to sort out the floor and the long standing drainage problem. The...
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    Have been away and it's good to be back.

    Hi all, I used to visit this forum a lot, but have been away for a long time. Lots has happened both in our flock and personal lives. The other half was made redundant but thankfully has a new job now. We are renovating the house. Our daughter is five now and I am about to start training as a...
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    Ayam Cemani hen with a few cream feathers.

    Hi everyone. Back in October the other half, our daughter and I made our twice yearly trip to the local rare breed auction. I was really excited as I had seen in the sale catalogue that there was a single Ayam Cemani pullet for sale paired up with a Rhode Island Red hen. (poultry can only be...
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    noisy cockerels and cockerel collars

    Hi everyone. Have been having a terrible time since last December. Most of my neighbours love my chickens and next door have never noticed the crowing! But the street complainer who has attacked several of my neighbours over one thing or another over the years decided it was our turn. After a...
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    Breeding Brahmas

    Hi everyone have got a question on the breeding of silver blue,orange duckwing brahmas. I have an excellent cockerel of this type and am looking for a hen of the same type, my question is would they breed true? Also I have a blue gold partridge hen and am wondering what the colour of the...
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    Two broodys both on eggs!

    A couple of weeks ago a lady I know decided she would like me to hatch her some of my eggs as she wants some easter eggers and a son of Lovejoy my brahma. Was just getting ready to fire up the incubator for the pre incubation test when both my pekin and brahma hens went broody! They are now...
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    everyone's pictures of chicks first time out and about!

    Hi thought it would be great if everyone could share their pictures and stories of their chicks first experience of the big wide world. My four had their first time free in the garden today (I stayed with them), Rose the easter egger was chilling in the flower bed and the rest of the flock was...
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    can anyone help me with the gender of these little guys?

    These are my four little guys, from left to right they are A sultan, a lemon millefleur sablepoot, an araucana (I think but not sure, maybe you can help on that question as well! ) and an altesier (not sure about the spelling). I did have three more a maran, polish frizzle and an andalusian but...
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    Hello!

    Hello everyone my name is Joanne. I had pet chickens as a child and after years in the chicken free wilderness wanted another flock of feathered friends. The opportunity came along quite unexpectedly last December, we had decided to pop into the petshop that had recently opened and there in a...
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