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Still umming and aaaaing over what sex my chickens are...Note to self, don’t hatch pea comb chicks again!! My Welsummer was sorted in 3 weeks and I’m still here feeding 4 other chicks 7 weeks later🙈2 Indian Game and 2 Lavender Araucanas (British standard not USA) Here are latest pics of one of...

I know there are posts on here already about this and but even looking through them I’m none the wiser. I’ve posted before and thanks to advice On previous post including pics of my Lavender Araucanas and my Indian Game crosses I think I’m ok with my Indian Game chicks, but my lavenders are...

Has anyone here crossed a pure breed Indian Game cockerel (Also known as Cornish Game) with a Welsummer? Two of the chicks I hatched from a breeder were cross breeds (from pure parents) and I have no idea how to sex this pair as can find no pics anywhere and the breeder is ‘technically...

I just can’t stop watching them🙈so I got the proper camera out...spot my little chipmunk Welsummer Roo!

I’ve posted quite a bit over the past week because I hatched out my first ever lot of chicks using my broody hen. I knew chick’s grew quickly but this is way faster than I envisaged...my husband has now been tasked with the extending of the broody coop to fit them in and finish the guttering in...

Just thought I’d post a few pics of my new chicks hatched by my broody hen at the weekend. I have 1 Welsummer, 3 Lavender Araucanas (UK so ours have rumps) and 2 Indian Game/Welsummer crosses ...be interested to see how they turn out as I like both of those birds but have never seen a cross...

I have an egg pipped at the wrong end (This is my first hatch but am using a broody hen not an incubator) It externally pipped about 22 hours ago but has not progressed. I don’t want to interfere if I can help it. Experienced hatchers ....how long would you leave it? It is still alive and it’s...

Is it just me? Or is everyone else constantly tweaking and adjusting their coop to accommodate not just your hen’s needs but also your own? I started off with one of those tiny little cute looking coops that looks like a little house and says they fit ‘6-8 hens’ but after about 2 days you...

Just had a Welsummer chick hatch and m thinking it’s a boy going by pics I’ve looked at but it’s starting to darken up so now am not sure. It hatched about 12am so almost 14hours old ... lots of character already!

First time hatching eggs under my broody hen and she is such a determined broody that she wasn’t getting up at all to poop/eat/drink (I know they’re meant to get up briefly once a day) ....when I say she’s determined she tried to hatch a ramekin dish once! So I was lifting her just to quickly...

2 weeks ago, after years of reading up but never quite taking the plunge, I had an opportunity to get my own backyard hens! The drawback ....they might need some tlc, might be in poor condition, might not have many feathers, might not lay etc etc because they were commercial hens......They had...

Hi guys, as expected after just starting out with 2 rescue ex commercial hens, I am in need of advice. I was going to take some poo samples to get checked for parasites as a matter of course on Monday and especially after one of my rescues has been showing runny poo, not laying and a slightly...

Hi everyone, I am a complete novice in Scotland(more used to sheep than chickens!) but have just rehomed 2 ex commercial barn layers who were due for slaughter last week (18months old...age of destruction for a commercial hen) I will no doubt be bombarding you all with questions about my girls...