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How beautiful 😍. Were they send to you or did you visite? Are you sure it’s a member who does this and not a not-member who lives nearby. Good luck with catching the 🤬 ^^ ditto.

Where I live we have road-stands too in the fruit season. I live near to an area where they have a lot of fruit trees, like cherrys. But the road-stand near to where I live imports most fruit from Italy. They sell cherry’s long before they ripen here and the price is even higher than the...

In my town there are still 2 dedicated fruit/veggie shops. And 2 organic shops that sell unpacked veggies and fruits of the season. But these are so expensive, that I don’t buy there very often. The supermarkets sell about half of fruits/veggies in plastic. Sometimes there is a choice for...

Thanks! I got this screen. Telling me I need an account or have to make a new account. But then when I closed the screen ( x) , the Asseel short popped up. Tintin and mothers tax:

Please add content here. I don’t have FB.

It must have been a hard choice to make such decisions. You just can't make all chickens and yourself happy without making less pleasant decisions or selling/giving away chickens and not knowing what will become of them. I often choose the last option for the surplus of cockerels I had...

Did you mark the eggs? Imho not a good idea to leave the new eggs in the nest -> another staggered hatch?

I have clay ground too and had a muddy run too after lots of rain. My solution: I dug several of deep holes in the run. With a special tool to add poles in the ground. Added pebbles in the holes and the mud problem vanished like snow for the sun. It still works after 8 years.

I don’t have a tomboy, but 2 mama’s who titbit for their chick. 🐥 And I have a sort of lesbian hen (Kraai, behind Ini mini on the photo) who mates other hens without being nice to them. Stopped giving eggs, because she is broody.

Thanks for updating me. You are right EPDM is a good kind of rubber without toxics like in PVC. The best you can buy as underlayment for a green roof (sedum). Seems I used it on the lid of the nestboxes to repair the leaking at the hinges. We had saved the remainder after the construction of...

It will be interesting to read what Shad will reply. If you like you can read my view on this too. I never used an incubator (and Shad didn’t use one either on his previous hatch with Fret). Because I don’t have a rooster I buy hatchery eggs from someone who does. And give the marked hatchery...

First congrats with Fret being broody again! Second a question about the rubber. Are you sure it’s not made from recycled car tyres? There is a discussion going on about the toxics in it...

3 boys, 1 girl?

I suppose Henry is well aware Shad is hanging around to pay attention too.

We probably never understand our chickens behaviour completely. We often see what they do, but not why. Sometimes its obvious because we can relate to an event sometimes we can’t. Maybe it has to do with Dig missing?. Maybe she wants max. air because of the puncture? :idunno

I find it hard to believe that we humans know such things for sure. Its also a bit strange imho to say that humans who misbehave or take control follow their instincts. Like pestering the kid with the red hair or thick glasses on school. Child abuse. Torturing prisoners. Taking the lead no...

Matter of opinion? Being nasty to others on purpose is cruel imho. And I have seen nasty / cruel behaviour with all kind of animals including humans, dogs, cats and chickens. Doing things by instinct can be cruel too!

I have seen a bad attack from Kraai towards the chick (Tintin) when her eggs didn’t hatch at all. Katrientje is lower in the pecking order, has a friendlier character and didn’t defend the chick. Kraai and Katrientje were sitting side be side, both on 3 eggs. But the outcome was very poor. I...

Good to hear this positive news After all you/your chick(en)s have gone through! 😅 I like the logic of this theory and I believe you got it right even without proof.

No. Hens are probably just as cruel as roosters (in general) only in a different way. I’ve seen hens behave very mean to young pullets/cockerels. But it’s impossible for me to compare out of experience.