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Do I see that Fret and the chicks have no nest and sit on the bare floor? To avoid red mite? Looks uncomfortable to me. I would add something like a cardboard box bottom with a bit of sand/hay/shavings for them. If you change it weekly mites get no chance to multiply in it. This requires a...

She looks as if she’s very proud and happy! 😃

What breeds do you have? From reading too much chicken threads I start to believe the high production breeds start to decline in laying rapidly after 4 years, while the heritage breeds and barnyard mixes who don't lay very much in the first 3 years slowly decline and still give a nice amount of...

Last year I had a chick that struggled to hatch too. It was too far behind to get along with the rest because it was weak and wobbly after it hatched. I took it inside, gave it water with good electrolytes (with honey, acv and a pinch of salt). Kept it warm with my body heat. In the evening I...

I find this commercial egg business disgusting too. 🤮 Same with commercial factory meat. 🥩 🍖 🐷 🐮 🐔. Buying disposed hens that are bred to lay so much that it’s bad for their health is just not my cup of tea. But I do honour those who pay the price and give these poor creatures a good life...

A belated congrats with all the hatchlings! Nice to see there are different colours. Fret did a great job! 🐥 🐥 🐥 🐥 And of course fantastic the last chick 🐣 found a new home with a good chance to survive.

You are absolutely right if you refer to me. I can sit with my chickens and do nothing but observe for up to 10 minutes. My mind wanders after a short while and I always see/think of other things I have to do or catch my attention.

A belated congrats No fly zone!

I suppose my Ini mini purrs when she is very happy. She often does this when we have nice sunny weather and shortly after I open the coop/run to let the chickens free range. She always stops again after about 30 secs - a minute.

:gig you feed them with a fork. Do you learn your chickens to eat with knife and fork? I got over a week behind because the noticing failed. 😞

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...