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Hi, all chicken lovers. In this sad world it just feels so great to have tiny, new life. I would just like to comment that, if your chicks don't have a Mum to sit on them when they are cold, the risks of raising them outdoors are massive. Wee chicks not only need heat top-down, but they need...

In this deeply uncertain world, where there are people trying to harm you, there are wars going on, the world is moving into a different climate zone, just take a half-an-hour each day to catch up with the people in your life who are totally wholesome, mean no harm, will not steal your identity...

Hi all, We have 3 chicks in a maternity pen, and we need to get them into the main chicken hut before winter. They never go into the main pen, where the hut is. Feeding them out hasn't worked. They were born in the Summer and are now fully feathered. None of them are mature yet. The father...

When I started my flock I did not understand how close a relationship a human could have with a bird. We both seemed such different beings. Over the years I have learned better. My big, black, beautiful senior hen loves nothing more than to stand beside me, and peck my boots. If I am wearing...

Just a quick tip on trapping red mites. I put 8 bricks in the chicken hut on the newspaper I use to remove faeces below the perches. The red mites gather on the underside of the bricks during the day, when the chickens are outside. I then turn the bricks over, and scrub them with a stiff...

Living with baby chicks is sometimes tragic, sometimes agonizing, and sometimes just plain wonderful! Here's some pics of baby Pudding, born alone in the world and raised by hand. For all the horrible things that humans do to animals at least there are some times when humans can help, and, in...

Hi world! Into this world have come five little people last week and I just wanted to show you some photos. All healthy and bouncing, although the last one needed a bit of help from us to get out of the egg. Mum is brand new to this, but totally calm and intelligent. She waits for me to put...

I had two buff orpingtons broody since 1st April. One decided today that the eggs were overdue and so she got off the nest and ran around with the flock. I mean that's amazing, isn't it? The other is still sitting, but she is last year's hatch, and doesn't know what to expect. I also have a...

Just shattered by the state of her neck! Having pulled all her neck feathers out he has now ripped her neck skin. The blood was dried by the time I got to her, but he has bitten down to the neck bones. She's my favourite hen. All I could do was to catch her and then bath the neck in warm...

I reach out to all chicken keepers all around this crazy world, right now. We don't know each other, we cannot meet, but we CAN share! While the world goes mad, politically and medically, we have something to ground us, and that is love. Whatever people say about caged animals, my chucks come...