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Another interesting article https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/making-your-own-chicken-feed/ Quote: It’s important to acknowledge the elephant in the room before we dig into the nutritional needs of our feather friends: Chickens aren’t what they used to be. We’ve been feeding our chickens...

This article is useful. @Perris what is your opinion? https://learnpoultry.com/grains-chickens/ I’ve been reading along here and also your Shadrach thread. I’m planning on feeding my birds a portion of fermented / sprouted whole grains, vegetable scraps (minus the ones they can’t eat - we now...

Sorry, haven’t had time to read all the comments, so sorry if this has already been shared. This article is brilliant (link below). I’d go for chicks if you want them tame and used to your dogs. We currently have chicks, and they are not quite 2 weeks old but the dog is already treating them...

Fantastic article, thank you

Thank you for your detailed response, I appreciate it. I will just have to keep my fingers crossed it’s a pullet then. It’s a real sweetheart, and very docile / calm, and always hungry 😂

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/boy-vs-girl-cuckoo-marans.459471/ I was going off the information provided on here re gender at hatch @ShrekDawg @LavenderDaFlerf @EggSighted4Life but thanks for your replies!

Hello, can anyone shed some light on this little Cuckoo Maran chick please? I think it’s a girl, but the bottom is confusing me :confused: I know baby’s bottoms can be swollen at birth from all the hormones though. It’s my daughter’s chick, and only one of her 3 Maran eggs have hatched so far 😢...

Hello, can anyone shed some light on this little Cuckoo Maran chick please? I think it’s a girl, but the bottom is confusing me :confused: I know baby’s bottoms can be swollen at birth from all the hormones though. It’s my daughter’s chick, and only one of her 3 Maran eggs have hatched so far 😢...

Any of the eggs more likely to be a black chick? What breeds are the different eggs? Sorry if you've already answered this, been kinda distracted hatching eggs over here 🤣😂😉 xxx

We get ticks on the dog too! Horrible things. Our parakeet is cute, he can say a few words (hello, good bird) and he mimics my daughters laugh really well, and always seems to know when it's an appropriate time to laugh - he has me in stitches! Like, once he did a poo on our sofa, where my...

Um... Well, we drew round the air cells after candling on day 17, but the chick pipped well outside of this air cell. So I was worried it wouldn't be able to get air - the pip had cracked the shell but had not broken through. So I candled the egg to see if the pip was inside the air cell - and...

Hello! I only have done this one hatch, so not really experienced! Our temperature didn't fluctuate. The thermometer on the incubator stayed at 37.8C, and the calibrated thermometer at the bottom usually said 37.4, but it's thermometer sensor is on the underside, so against the floor of the...

Thank you!! My youngest daughter was so excited / worried last night, she couldn't sleep! They already get under your skin as little eggs, especially when you see them moving during candling... but man, when they start cheeping and pipping it's even worse :love:love....!! No, thankfully I'm not...

Yes, two have pipped!! One cream legbar and one maran. It is day 21 today. One pipped yesterday outside of the air cell, so that was an oddity. I left it 12 hours, nothing more had happened. I carefully removed it this morning to candle it - and saw that the air cell has moved, and in fact...