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I actually know what breed these chicks are, but thought it might be fun for you to try to find out. They are hybrids, though - so there's a clue. Can you work out what breeds they come from?
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I have 3 hens. My welsomer has been laying for a couple of months now. She was almost a year old before she began to lay. At Easter I bought another 2 POL pullets - a Light Sussex and a Fenton Blue. They were 14 weeks old at the time.
The Fenton Blue laid her first egg last Thursday...
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I have a new run built for our school chickens. It gives them much more room than before, but is fairly bare inside. Just home made compost to scratch and roll about in. I have put in a couple of cut off logs and half a bale of straw - to give them something other than the ground to...
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Since our Welsommer, Bonnie, has had the attention of Clyde the Barnvelder cockerel all to herself [something she's not that keen about] I decided to add to his little harem in order to give her a rest, and give him some more girls to take care of.
Soo - a nice man looked after...
Today is the shortest day /longest night of the year. The winter solstice. I'm not a pagen - so I don't celebrate, as such but..........................
From today, the nights get shorter, days lengthen.
Thank goodness for that!!
I'm much happier when the days are longer - and so are the...
I don't know if you have seen this before - you probably have - but it is a very good site showing chicken poo in all its normal forms, and not so normal. It will reassure you that what you are seeing is normal [or otherwise]
http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0
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I've been to the National Poultry show here in the Uk, today. There were over 5,000 exhibits of birds in almost every shape and size and colour imaginable. I've never seen chooks as large or as tiny as some of those seen today. Some were very skinny, some very broad. Some with...
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I am a teacher at a school for kids with Moderate learning difficulties. I am the carer of the school chickens. We started off a year ago by adopting 3 ex battery hens. Since then, 2 have died. [one of a suspected heart attack, the other of egg peritonitus]. One chicken on its own...