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We are suffering what for us is exceptional cold. I thought I would like to remind folk of the frostbite problem during very low temperatures. Here are two pics. of my La Fleche rooster, Young Nick. To be strictly honest, this is probably not truly frostbite. Young Nick...

I posted this ?cockerel pic. on the Naked Neck site (though (s)he is not NN) as the face was strange. One perceptive member tole me it was probably a chimera, in this case a gynandromorph with both male and female genotype cells due to egg fertilisation by two sperms, I believe. I've read up a...

10 days ago I lost a lovely hen to fox predation.She had decided to brood under a bush and I didn't know she was out, as they free range over a large site and I have too many chickens already. Just a day later when I left the house to open the coops there was a hen, wet, ravenous and a bit...

Having La Flèche was always going to add 'interest' in the headgear department. the pics. below These guys show how complex comb genetics are. The comb of the second bird looks like a crown. They are about 15 weeks old....so their headgear should grow quite a lot more. The combs...

I think that the picture says it all. They get along.....they have to! Dog.....Jared, cat..... Diva, sheep.....Kevo, birds L to R .....Atremis, Warren, Jezobel, Treacle, and Aryyan.

Production hens......brown hybrid egg layers I understood to be 'old' at 2-3 and to die aged at 4 or under. I am talking about the Hyline. ISA Brown, Warren type......bred to lay eggs and to never be broody etc. Well here's Warrren......aged 6 years and 5 months......I've owned her ever...

No not a new breed of chickens, but my 8 week old cockerels who have little crowns on their heads. I look forward to seeing what these guys look like when they are fully grown. The 'crown' arises from a cross between the 'horns' of La Flèche and a pea comb.

I am very fortunate in that I have never had a problem with aggression toward a new mum and her chicks. I have done many integrations, the latest of which has happened over the last two days. I am very fortunate in that I have total free ranging and this may well be the reason. My latest momma...

Here's a selection of today's eggs. It's the second from the left. Far left....double yolk almost certainly...weight 102g Middle egg....f**t egg. Second from right....wrinkled egg. Far right....probably double yolked and also covered with raised calcium bumps. F**rt egg layer by a hen with...

Or not. Here's my soundly-sleeping and very muddy Border Collie with some of the chickens. The two big boys at either end are belting out their ownership of the place......whilst Jared peacefully sleeps. The girls are mainly just sorting out their grooming.

My old Warren, Warrren, is back in lay. She appeared to go into permanent retirement about last July, having slowed to about 2 eggs per week (not bad for a 'production brown' and she definitely had earned her retirement.) Today, she made a b-line for the outhouse when I opened the door and shot...

Chickens do exhibit the most 'interesting' behaviour at times. I have an adolescent cockerel, Arian, who had an approx. half inch 'horn' on the end of his comb. Yesterday he took the liberty of mating a hen right under the nose of alpha Gordon (huge NNXBrahma cross). Gordon took exception and...

Here's what I found in one of my coops today. So the answer is...if the egg on the left weighing 104g....about 1 or 2....if the egg on the right, tipping the scales at 22g.....about 20. It made my morning very interesting anyway.

Actually, that should read chickens HAVING Xmas lunch. And having pudding. We're strictly veggie, so no meat products in their food. And Santa Claude sends his Christmas bleatings. Claude getting very festive.

Something went seriously wrong when I tried to post this before, so here is my second attempt. Blackchops is a 32 week old cross Naked Neck who began to lay about 6 weeks ago. She is an exceptionally BIG bird. Initially she laid little pullet-sized eggs, then hen sized , then ENORMOUS eggs...

I have a huge Dark Brahma hen, Mrs Grey, who was broody four times in her first year and three times last year. This year she hatched her first clutch and stayed with the chicks until they were nearly 15 weeks old. She laid about 6 eggs and then went broody again, staying with them until they...

Here in rural Wales it is getting cold, dark and very wet. We have done the usual nonsense of putting clocks back an hour, so it's dark at 5:00 p.m. I have an 'interesting' flock.....one hen, Mrs Grey,huge Dark Brahma, sleeps with the dog in the outhouse and I have two cardboard boxes at the...

Some of you may remember my Blue Partridge Brahma pullet who was very challenged in the feather department. Moel aged approx 18 weeks Well, she has come good, though appears a bit on the 'rumpless side'. Moel aged 30 weeks Even her face is starting to redden. I don't think that I should...

Whose breakfast did you say it was? Mrs Grey.....always ready to eat, but she likes the raisins in the porridge best.

I've posted on this hen before, but had thought that by now she would be fine....but she's not. Bluey, twisted spine Blue Partridge Brahma (usually feisty and capable) went broody in August. I gave her three eggs having tried to break her. Unfortunately she smothered the only chick which fully...