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Kathy, Looking at some of the others in the flock, I am fairly confident that it is Marek's. I was hoping to use the cockerels as table birds, but although I will continue eating any eggs the hens produce, I don't think I will use any of the flock for meat, just to be safe. I will just...

Can you eat their eggs if they have Marek's? Will they even lay any? The 16 week olds were supposed to supply us with lots of lovely eggs! I hope they aren't suffering. The one currently roosting fast asleep in my lounge seems happy enough!

I had a bird die a little while ago- very underweight, I couldn't figure out what was wrong- this was when none had lice and there was no red mite. I was trying to feed her up and she seemed perky enough, but still died. I wonder if it was Marek's tumours inside that killed her. This was a...

Hi all, I have 6 x 2yrs+ chickens and 16 x 16 weeks old chickens (the youngsters a a mixture of cockerels and hens). They live in two homemade coops made by a joiner, and during the 10 years I've had chickens, I have never had mites/lice. I have been using DE in with the bedding for the last...

I'm in Kent, glad to see some more UK'ers here, I have 14 including Buff Orpington cockerel and hens, Marans, Wyandottes, Red Sex Links and their chicks. Lovely colourful bunch! Also look after my neighbours' lot when it all goes pear shaped for them. Happy Henning!

Ooh, that was quick! Thank you! The one you have labelled 'barred mix' is the same as the 'mum' of the three chicks- she doesn't have any feathers on her legs, no. The last pic is of a chick, hatched 18 June, which I think is a cross between a Buff Orp (the cockerel- that part is guaranteed!)...

Hi there, I have a selection of chickens and I would like to know their breed. Apart from the Buff Orpingtons, which I had already, they were all rescued from an abandoned chicken coup on an allotment- when I found them they were skin and bones living off the corpse of the first to starve...