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Hi all, Any ideas on the sex of these 2 chicks? They’re Light Sussex crosses, almost 8 weeks old. Two photos of each chick. Thanks! Alex

Hi all, I have just candled my eggs at day 7 and was looking for your advice on whether any are good or all bad. I had issues at the start of incubation as my incubator stopped working after 2 hours. I had another delivered 2 days later so the eggs were stood for 2 days in between. Please let...

Hi all, I had some fertilised eggs delivered and borrowed an incubator from my neighbour. I set the incubator up and put the eggs in after letting them sit for 24 hours. The incubator stopped working after roughly 1-2 hours. If I was to buy a new incubator and have it delivered on Tuesday...

Hi all, I am looking to purchase eggs to hatch to join my light sussex hens. I want to go for a different breed and incase one or more of the eggs turn out to be a cockerel, which breed would make a nice cross with a light Sussex? Thanks in advance. Alex

Hi all, I bought 6 fertilised light Sussex eggs from Ebay to put under my broody. I haven’t had the best of luck with them as 3 were bad and exploded under my broody at around day 18. I cleaned the nest box and the remaining 3 and left them under her. Yesterday was day 23 and still no pips...

Hi all! One of my hens has recently started losing a lot of feathers from her breast area and around her tail. There is no sign of mites in the coop and she has recently stopped being broody. I have seen that chickens do go through a moult around winter time but as it is just her and we are...

Hi all, My broody is on day 7 of hopefully her first hatch. I am also on my first time trying to hatch eggs. Today I used a Brinsea Ovascope to see if the eggs are fertile. I believe all 5 are but wanted to check with people a lot more experienced than I am! Attached are photos of the 5...

Hi all, I have just received 6 fertilised LF light Sussex eggs to put under my broody. These are the first chickens I have had, I have had them since 4 months old and they are now near a year old. One of them went broody for 3 weeks a couple of months back and 2 weeks ago she started again...

Hi all, One of my light Sussex girls has been acting strange for the last few days or so. I had assumed she was just broody as she was staying in the nesting box on the eggs. Now she is staying in there even when no eggs are in there and I took her out earlier and she was shivering and staying...

Hi all, One of my girls has lost her feathers near her vent. Only noticed it over the past week or so. Haven't seen any pecking or changes in behaviour. Any idea what the cause could be? Picture below.

Hi all, I'm looking at buying an Eglu Cube for my 3 light Sussex girls but as they are so expensive I wanted to check on here first! Has anyone got or had one of the new models or looking at the spec can you see any problems? I will probably get a 3m run with it although they do free range...

Hi All, I have 3 pullets and this morning I found the first egg in their nesting box which looked fine. This afternoon there was another one in there with blood on it. First, is this normal? Secondly, is it possible for a newly laying pullet to lay 2 in a day as she is the only one squatting so...

One of my Light Sussex pullets, Bitsy, laid her first egg this morning! The first one I've had, thinking of renaming her Mary!

Hi All, Yesterday two of my pullets were doing something I haven't seen before. They were walking a few steps squatting down, seeming like they were off balance, walking a few more steps then squatting down again. I have read that they squat when they are getting ready to lay (they aren't...

Hi All, As I went out this evening to lock up the chicken coop, I noticed all 3 of my pullets looked like they had very full crops and I have never seen them this big before. I am assuming it's because I am giving them more feed at the moment because I am in the UK so they aren't free ranging...

Hi All, I'm pretty sure this is a pullet but just a few doubts as she has much bigger comb and wattles than my other girls, she is slimmer/taller and makes more noise. She is 24 weeks old.

Hi All, I live in the U.K. (West midlands) and have 3 Light Sussex pullets. Today the weather was at -4/-5 degrees c for the majority of the morning/early afternoon and the ground was frozen. I didn't notice any of them acting differently apart from eating more food, which I assumed was...

Hi All, I heard a lot of what sounded like distressed squawking coming from outside where my pullets were free ranging earlier. I ran outside fearing the worst but found that one of my girls had managed to perch herself on top of a 6ft garden fence! I have no idea how she got up there. In my...

I'm looking at getting a Light Sussex cockerel to join my flock and have a couple of questions. 1. My pullets are currently around 24 weeks old, when you get a cockerel is it better if he is around the same age, older or younger? 2. I currently have 3 hens, would it be necessary to buy more if...

Hi All, My 3 Light Sussex pullets are between 23 & 25 weeks old so usually they would start laying around now. However, are they likely to start laying soon even though its winter or will they not start until the day's start getting lighter again? I'm in the UK so there is around 10 hours of...