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i should add my last is a cream legbar so a very docile scared breed, very low on pecking order

So i posted Thursday about the loss of my second last hen. I only have one hen remaining in my run. she seems to be singing the egg song multiple times a day. can this be due to distress of being alone? I want to find her a companion as fast as possible. im just in a bit of a situation where i...

thanks everyone. I'm due to get ashes back some time next week. so she will remain with family!

unfort shes with vets now due to be cremated so im unable to personally check. she sat in our fridge from Tuesday until today, but didn't have the emotional capacity to check for myself. since to me my hens are my therapy animals instead of farm ones. i did notice however. the side of the coop...

my healthy hen so who is super tame

I had a pet welsummer. she was a pet and not so much a farm bird. i incubated them and raised them by hand. unfort on Tuesday i went to go around my daily choirs with them and found my welsummer dead laying in her coop. she was only 1 year 5 months old. she didnt have any symptons of avaian flu...

What's all your favortite chicken breeds and why? Mine has to be my cream legbar. Her socialness as well as all the funny little sounds she makes. She makes the funnest of whining/ moaning sounds I've ever heard come from a chicken. Like she's a grumpy girl! 😂 I keep trying to video her making...

Very possible. I think I read in discription of eggs that their chickens are all kept together. There may be a generation or 2 of mixed breeding. Unsure how she would keep autosexing features though. Then again I'm not sure how that works. We had 6 eggs total at incubation. 5 hatched but only 3...

Ooh interesting. Is that the stuff they use to insulate wooden houses and sheds? Between the panel? I suppose more overall it would be rainproofing we would need the most. We all know how chickens turn all the grass to mushy mud lol. So if I can keep their run area dry for winter. I do plan on...

Ah you based in America as says 4mil? . Here we use guage for some reason which confuses me lol. I've heard mixed from people that 250 guage is perfect. And others say it rips too easily in high wind. Really not sure what one to get over here in the UK. I'll try post the ones I was looking at...

same stuff i was looking at. transparent greenhouse plastic. would you say 250 guage plastic enough or you think i need thicker? want them to be as comfortable as possible. i know they are cold tolerant. but hate wind. Thanks for the reply! :)

So not really about heating. I have 2 hens. A welsummer and a cream legbar. We are nearing winter here in Scotland. Our winters can be quite brutal for temps. This is my first winter having my chickens outside. they have a 8x8ft Run in our back yard thats 6ft tall. Our winter temps can get down...

Welsummer roos are absolutely gorgeous!!! If i lived further out in the country i would def keep some! unfort being right in the middle of a towns residential area we cant have any roos. Not by law or rules. We are allowed to keep them as long as no one complains. but we had a lot of neighboring...

Very interesting. I dont see RIR in the farms list, Although i can see a lot of strong similarities.. when bought the hatching eggs they had listed breeds below. Mayve you would have better knowledge of what she is based on these breeds? Bovans Brown, Dekalb White, Lavender Aracuna, Black...

quite possibly as her eggs should be speckled but are not. However heres a more close up pic of her from when she first went into their new area. the one way we could tell was when she was a baby chick. she was auto sexing

thank you for the info! I've ordered a medium/ large dog crate off of amazon which should arrive tomorrow. i can fabricate a nice enough perch for her as i have a lot of scrap wood around. ill bring her into the house and provide a food and water bowl for her. though shes def 100% welsummer...

Thanks for the info. I had thought about moving her when i first noticed. Just lack of extra space to keep her would be my issue. would it harm for her to sit on unfertile eggs until she rides out the broodiness? apparently Welsummers are notorious for being horrible mothers lol. Also living...

Good news. was hoping it would just be broody! Yes shes sitting on 2 eggs but not fertile ones. I just left her too it after i had called a vet to come check her. but i guess i could now cancel the appointment! could a broody hen stop another hen laying? Our second chicken in video hasnt laid an...

Hi everyone. I have noticed some strange behaviour from one of my welsummer hens. At first I thought maybe just broody. Although very rare in her breed plus age. She's 10 months old. About 1 week ago she started sitting in her nest all day. However when I go outside to clean and change their...

Ah yes. I can see the pattern now. Especially around the neck! Thanks!!