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evening all. looking for some advice; i currently have one leghorn, a pekin and a 17wk old speckled sussex. my pekin goes broody fairly often so we have hatched 3 brahmas, from what i can see i have 2 female and 1 male, all 6 weeks old now. the two females will be going to a friend who...

the older brahma is 17 weeks now, bigger then my sussex which i was thinking of keeping for eggs to suppliment the leghorns who are getting old now. so if she will be too old and tough for xmas i would butcher her tomorrow and eat her on sunday (i will then be away for 3 weeks) and save the...

Evening all. I currently have a mixed flock. A few leghorns for eggs and a Sussex and Brahma for meat. I also have 3 chicks with my broody Barham one of which is a Brahma and the others unknown. We have our older Brahma in mind for Christmas dinner this year. So that would make her 27 weeks...

Had these hatch last week. Got a funny feeling one is a bloke just because it's comb is bigger then the others but still unsure of breed.

Timons post seconded. Despite me now having branched out to dual purpose birds for eating they still deserve the best. One of the reasons why I don't want specific meat birds is that I don't feel like processing them at a young age. My brahma will be 6 months, the Sussex a bit older. Just...

I'm away a fair bit. So just had 4.5 weeks in the us. Now have a week here then away for a week. Then back for a week then away for another week. Then I finally get my two weeks summer holiday! Weather is lovely down here, the chickens are enjoying it. Now begins the quest to get a nice big...

I was on exercise with the army. It's been nice and warm here in Suffolk since I've been back, so not too bad to adjust to. Yep. Well hopefully it's a Christmas to ourselves this year, I know my parents are away so hopefully the in-laws are too and we can just relax. Thanks for the tips on...

Good afternoon all! After a month of heat in the Arizona desert I'm back. Whilst I've been away one of our banthams sadly died. Unsure why but my wife said the vet she took it too said it didn't seem to be anything infectious etc. She could have been quite old as she was a rescue. Our other...

Just decreased the flock from 7 to 5. One of my wife's colleague's was after some more for his flock. So he's taken the aggressive leghorn and the brown chick. He has a flock of 7 already which are completely free range so they went to a decent home. Leaves us with the other leghorn two banthams...

Evening all. Hope you are being treated to the lovely weather ive been getting, good acclimatization before heading to the desert in arizona next week! We decided to more the two leghorns out of their little temporary run as now the chicks are a bit bigger. its been a week now and one of...

The egg it hatched from was a lot bigger then the eggs I get from my bantams though. Or am I wrong in thinking that it should be a full sized breed?

Some new pictures of my three week old chick. This is the one I'm most intrigued by. Any ideas yet?

Mummys back!

Now two weeks old. The white one is getting feathers slot quicker then the others then the one with white and black wings followed by the white and brown. In other news I am also acting as daddy daycare as mum is away this weekend and next. Seems my 1 year old has grasped the concept of...

Now two weeks. The white one is getting feathers very quickly

They are pure breeds. Got them from a poultry farmer not far away to replace some eggs one of our broodies abandoned. The white one is now developing tail feathers along with the other I posted. The third still looks the same but now I can see that its wings are more red speckled with white...

i know its early to tell, but any ideas? this one has bare feet, redish tinge to its body with white and black wingtips. this one very pale with white wingtips with black spots, light feathery feet. any ideas? they are a complete mystery but they are all normal sized (from the size...

so here are some picture of the mystery chicks, the first one, i have two of them, the second just one. this one, dark/red/brown on the back with white and black wing tips: this one nice and pale, white wing tips with a couple of black spots, and feathery feet. no clue what...

yep, well the new coop was because the leghorns were being very unfriendly with the new chicks, so had to be separated. the other coop i have won't get moved with us as it is on the way out and very old, so will do while we are here but not worth taking. For now it lets us have our meat and egg...

Just finished my very basic but functional collapsible coop! https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/flat-pack-removable-store-able-chicken-tractor-coop