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  1. Lydia&Andrew

    Egg Pecking???

    We have 4 Orpingtons and our first to start laying was Moisha about 2 weeks ago. Two days ago Jemima laid her first egg too. This morning my husband was checking for eggs and Jemima had laid hers in the coop and Moisha went in there and started to peck the egg. Does anyone know why she might...
  2. Lydia&Andrew

    We Got Our First Egg!!

    We got our first egg!!!!!! It's so exciting! This morning Mo, our black Orpington, was very vocal, as always, but was in and out of the coop before I left for work. When I came home this afternoon I checked the box but nothing so I let them out in the garden. When it came to bed time I went into...
  3. Lydia&Andrew

    Bath Time!!

    OK ..... so our 4 ladies haven't quite started using their perch for sleeping yet ...... instead the seem to prefer sleeping in the fresh poos they do through the night. We clean them out every morning of course, but they're ending up with mucky bums!! Yesterday we gave them their first bath...
  4. Lydia&Andrew

    Are they getting enough food?

    We're very new to keeping chickens and worry that they're not eating enough. Should we be checking that they have a full crop just before bed time?? What's the best way of telling that they've all eaten enough!?!?! Thank you.
  5. Lydia&Andrew

    Bed Time

    We brought our babies home last Sunday, two at about 20 weeks old and the other two about 15 weeks. The older ones have been taking themselves off up to bed on their own but tonight was the first night the two little ones have gone by themselves. They were all in by 8.00pm. We're going to give...
  6. Lydia&Andrew

    Our Coop and Run .......

    JUST GETTING STARTED THE COOP IN PLACE STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE FIRST WIRE FITTED SERVICE DOOR FITTED ROOF FITTED LOCKED AND BOLTED CHICKENS MOVE IN JEMIMA & MOISHA
  7. Lydia&Andrew

    Hi from the UK

    We're Lydia and Andrew from Cleethorpes, which is on the North East Coast of England. We've been reading for a while and eventually absorbed enough knowledge to start building our coop and run. We live in town and know that there are foxes in our area, so the run needed to be quite...
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