So I have an off situation! My buff Orpington got broody as my silkie has been having his way with her - the size difference is hilarious but they’ve managed it! So she sat on three eggs, one was a quitter, one a yolker and one went full but didn’t hatch. After what I worked out to be four weeks...
Hi all, please could you help my sex my two 11 week old Polish. I hate he’s them in my incubator and they had different crowns which I am hoping means I have one of each so I can breed. They are in very short supply in my area! They are currently called Ken and Deirdre. KenDeirdre
This is only my third post and second about my strange, often friendly but also very passive-aggressive neighbours. So a few months ago I posted about a problem whereby my neighbours believed their dog had contracted salmonella standing in our chicken poop and licking it off his paws. I was...
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I had a few mites appear in my coop last week. They weren't red but I assumed that's because I always put the additive in their water. I smoke bombed, sprayed and put D-earth literally everywhere, food, coop, perches, run, on them, everywhere in the garden that they have a dust bath -...
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I have been keeping chickens for two years now. A year ago I incubated some eggs to add to my little flock. I had four hatch, three of which were hens and one a cockerel. Thankfully the cockerel (a Pekin Bantam) is very quiet so we have been able to keep him. He is called Larry and a...
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I Live in Cornwall in the UK and twice in the last few months my neighbours have claimed that their dog has contracted salmonella from my chickens. They say the vet said that the dog can get chicken poop on their paws and lick it off, then contact the disease. They asked that I try and...