Peeps in Europe!

[Maiahr]

Here is the bottomless cage mine lived in last winter. Same as what @Skyle said - protect from wind, put some hey on the ground and they will be ok in the winter. Laying eggs is more light dependent than temperature
The structure of the cage is metal, then net, then glass/plastic foil to keep them warm. In the summer I remove the foil.

 

[abpatchy]

I was able to get some better pictures of my boys. The all were at the show last weekend. It's hard to believe that they were these tiny yellow fluff balls just in spring.

 

[Naisha]

I was able to get some better pictures of my boys. The all were at the show last weekend. It's hard to believe that they were these tiny yellow fluff balls just in spring.

Woowww they’re stunning! Thanks for sharing, they’re beautiful

 

[chickengr]

Here is the bottomless cage mine lived in last winter. Same as what @Skyle said - protect from wind, put some hey on the ground and they will be ok in the winter. Laying eggs is more light dependent than temperature
The structure of the cage is metal, then net, then glass/plastic foil to keep them warm. In the summer I remove the foil.

thank you for the pic. with so many rats here I cannot have a bottomless cage. they squeezed under the door and killed ducklings and chickens so a bottomless cage would be a piece of cake for them.

 

[Kippenboertje]

I'm going to follow from The Netherlands!!

 

[chickengr]

I'm going to follow from The Netherlands!!

welcome! tell us something about your chickens.

 

[Kippenboertje]

Well, I have 8 chicks including 1 proud rooster. 7 of them are mixed breeds. 1 is a "Hollandse Blauwe" translated "Dutch Blue", thats the one in the picture.

They are living on my 350m2 vegetable plot. In Summer they have a run which is 20m x 5m. Because if I don't keep them in there they will eat all my vegetables. From end september to somewhere in march/april I open the run and they can go where ever they want. This is great because they clean my vegetable plot, eat all the old plants and eat all the weeds and seeds. So in spring I have a weed free garden to start planting vegetables again.

 

[Maiahr]

Welcome @Kippenboertje , Your hen looks like mine, which I have as a Harco, I will post pictures later. I see you are from Brabant, wasn't there a Dutch breed Brabant??

Now, funny...I set my broody on the 9th November with Olive Eggers, some Australorps and some of my eggs. I put two of the old eggs which I normally keep in the nests to show my hens where to lay. Well, today a chick hatched from one of the old eggs! Apparently this old egg was fertile and since there were hens laying eggs in that nest, it started developing. I am planning to put the early bird chick under another mama who already has chicks.

 

[BDutch]

Welcome @Kippenboertje , Your hen looks like mine, which I have as a Harco, I will post pictures later. I see you are from Brabant, wasn't there a Dutch breed Brabant??

Now, funny...I set my broody on the 9th November with Olive Eggers, some Australorps and some of my eggs. I put two of the old eggs which I normally keep in the nests to show my hens where to lay. Well, today a chick hatched from one of the old eggs! Apparently this old egg was fertile and since there were hens laying eggs in that nest, it started developing. I am planning to put the early bird chick under another mama who already has chicks.

Aren’t you afraid the mama who has older chicks will reject/ kill this newly hatched chick?

And welcome @Kippenboertje veel plezier in dit kippenparadijsje. (Have lots of fun in this chicken paradise).

 

[BDutch]

Some sad news from Levende have , a respectable hobbyfarm site in the Netherlands (google translate). About the bird flu.:
In the past season it was mainly H5N8 viruses that caused outbreaks in poultry farms and numerous dead wild birds. Every now and then there was an N5N1 virus in between, but the current virus also deviates from that, according to the report of the expert working group. The working group has changed the risk of contamination of a poultry farm from high to very high. There is an increase in the number of infections in wild birds in a large number of places in the Netherlands.

The working group reports that wild birds have tested positive for highly pathogenic H5 viruses in seven different provinces. The bird flu virus has also been identified in some less typical species such as redshank and various gull species. This also includes species that do not travel great distances (such as the Mute Swan) and that have probably become infected within the Netherlands. In recent days, dead Wigeons and Barnacle Geese have also been found. In addition, the virus can also be present in apparently healthy birds. The migration of (water) birds is still ongoing and the maximum number of wintering birds has not yet been reached.