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I never realised all these years that you have several bantams. I believe the definition of bantams is under 1.4 or 1.5 kg. Standard Dutch should be 450 g. My Dutch are too large with 550 - 600 g. Katrientje is about 850 g. Most bantams are about 1 kg.

Where do you live? How mild is mild. How short are the days around Xmass? Where I live it doesnt get very cold in winter either (around 0 C) but the day length is only about 9 h in midwinter. I noticed they started to lay sooner in February when it was very sunny. The cloudy weather we had...

+ A chicken that comes out of an average chicken-factory after 18 months has lived a very poor life in an overcrowded environment. I think the way these poor chickens look is caused by a combination of several things. Food is maybe one of them. The stress and feather pecking from the...

It lacks the political will to do anything about it. The pesticide company has an overwhelming lobby apparatus to convince politicians in EU to maintain the allowance of the use of toxins despite what doctors ask for , for our health. And beekeepers for their honey bees and ….. The farming...

It depends on where you live, how high the risks are. I keep my small chickens in a coop/a net covered run attached. The free range a couple of hours each day in broad daylight when am home / on times when there are noises of people and cars. The clever chickens flee upon the run or over the...

The results of the inquiry on longevity I mentioned above. Not on a thread of Perris but almost half a year ago in this long lasting thread (thank you Shad for continuing so long!) : https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/shadrachs-ex-battery-and-rescued-chickens-thread.1502267/post-27447083

You don't have to reverse. There are still a lot of heritage breeds that don’t lay an extreme amount of eggs in the first 2 years. Some BYC keepers have several generations of mixes that get old. I cant tell if the normal live spans of all heritage breeds are all over 8 years. But my tiny...

Wow, what an event and great storytelling! Do enter it if there is a contest in poultry storytelling again!

I had this problem with my previous phone cameras too. But not with my Iphone (4yo now), and mdh bought a new (expensive) phone with multiple cameras that is good in poor light too. Since we are talking about small machines… Just to share. The cheapest incubator you can buy (new 20€, I bought...

Attract lots of Dutch farmers and flower growers who use an abundant lot of pesticides and other toxins to destroy the bugs on their crops and in the soil. We have only 25% of the original amount of insects in the Netherlands because of all the round up and other poisons. Serious: You have my...

Hatchling reads the sign outside: *************************** When in the sauna, try to be still. Breathe normally. You can sit or lie down. ***************************

The chick exclaims, "What a deep voice you have!" "The better to greet you with", responds the human. "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" "The better to see you with", responds the human. "And what big hands you have!" "The better to embrace you with", responds the human.

I think the Amrocks will resemble the size and build of Katrientje. Today I picked up the 4eggs-mini brooder. Because one egg was not under the 2 broodies yesterday evening, I thought it might be a good idea to start the machine anyway. The 3 hatchery eggs I hadn’t put in the nest started 1.5...

Not with Lucy in sky for sure. In strawberry fields maybe? Or a in a dancing doing a golden brown walz? Please keep us updated Ladies8.

Recognise this. The chicken keeper leaves the broody on the eggs and doesn’t take away the eggs underneath. (Better instructions next time). I break the broodiness by removing all the eggs. And make sure the broody sleeps on the roost again. This works with most of my hens within a few days...

❣️You could let her sit for 3 weeks on a couple of her own eggs ;). She looks so wonderful I wouldn’t mind to have her offspring. Great for Chipie to have a few daughters of about the same size. 😍 Hope you dont mind my silly response. I know you dont want more chickens and certainly not more...

No words needed. 😍

I find it too hard to write an article in proper English. English not my native language. I suppose its okay to reply in these threads, but I need better skills to write a book or an article.

@Perris it would be interesting for a lot of backyard chicken keepers if someone writes a good article about the history of chickens and the feeds the different breeds/hybrids need. The basics to take into account would be The number of eggs they lay (old heritage breeds vs average breeds vs...