love this vid

Especially the bit about the white idiot

Hi Ann

Sorry to hear your chooks are unwell

It sounds like a respiratory infection to me which is contagious so will more than likely spread to all the birds.

Antibiotics will treat the virus, Tylan or as Lisa says Baytril

Hi callisa and welcome

It's so exciting getting chooks

callisa wrote: looking at getting a couple of Polish Bantams. Is there anything I should know?

I would just say that if you can it's always best to start with 3 girls. That way if you lose one then you'll not be left with a lonely girl

exton_posh wrote:Had my first 2 eggs today! Little ones bout an inch across, dark brown and mid brown..the Nera and Speckled Rock are the likely culprits...

Yay
The first eggs are just so special

Well done those girls

Awww bless....

So very sorry Manda

Ahhh, can see them properly now

Even more gorgeous

So sorry you lost your little girl I introduced 3 new girls after we lost our first. It went much more smoothly than expected. If you take it slowly and allow enough room it shouldn't be too stressful I believe that the average age of a chicken is 6 years but all to often they just die for no appare...

Hi osie and welcome to the lane As fishpond says, they wake at dawn but mine get let out at all different times. If hubby is working then they get let out at between 6 and 7 depending if it's a night shift or not. Otherwise they get let out anything up to 8 o'clock. It also depends on the birds them...

Brilliant job Steve

Well done you

Absolutly gorgeous

Oh no, how awful

I'm really sorry but I don't know what the predator could be but just wanted to give you a

Hopefully someone will be along soon to offer some help

They are gorgeous looking girls but as Annie says without some perspective it's difficult to tell if they're bantams.

I read somewhere that bantams are on average a fourth the size of normal hens.

Don't know how true that is as i've never had any

Lovely looking girls

I got my boy because he was dumped at the end of our road.

It makes me so mad that some people think it's ok to just discard animals like they are a piece of rubbish

I hope you find a home for him