I am now the happy step mum of 4 chicks! Here (hopefully) is a picture of the first 2 who hatched yesterday.

Thank you for your swift responses. If there are unhatched eggs by day 22/23 should I remove them?

I've not been on here for a while now. All is good with my small flock. We had a couple of unexplained losses over the winter. Sad but the 6 girls we have are happy now and laying well. Belle, the silkie is sitting on eggs I bought fertilised. Today is the 21st day and, yes, we have 1 chick this mor...

Thanks, that helps a little. How old is Napoleon? You can see so clearly his tail is different- mine are not standing like cockerels yet- puffed chest etc, so maybe hens. Is napoleon noisy? do you have other cockerals? do they fight? we have a very noisy posessive Pekin boy and im worried he will fi...

Hi, can anyone help me decide if my black 16 week old silkes are boys or girls? I was sold them as hens but I know they are very hard to s.ex. Any ideas anyone? Thanks Louise http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/louisechicken/IMG-20111009-00081.jpg http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/louise...

Thank you for your replies. We would never dream of getting rid of them when they stop laying; they are part of the family and I thank them for every egg! We would like to continue getting eggs indefinitely and as our run can only house max. 8 hens I was trying to think sensibly. I could always incr...

I have a lovely little flock of 5 chickens. Hetty and Elena- hybrid girls about 9 months old: Selena and Miley, hybrid white stars around 6 months old and Nando the pekin boy who is 7 months. The girls are all laying (4 lovely eggs most days!) but can anyone tell me how long they will lay for? I wou...

My Hertfordshire honey (hybrid) is under the weather and I don't know what wrong with her. She has been sleeping most the day and is making wheazing noises, and she won't even come for food. Does anyone know whats wrong with her and if therre is anythink I can do. Thanks

With great sorrow we are looking for a new home for a lovely Seabright bantam boy. He is about 20 weeks and very friendly. He is very tame and well behaved. We are in Herts, near Potters Bar/ Hatfield. My profile pic is him I will try to help with delivery.
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With great sorrow we are looking for a new home for a lovely Seabright bantam boy. He is about 20 weeks and very friendly. We have a small flock of 4 and have just discovered 2 are boys, so 1 needs to go . He is very tame and well behaved. We are in Herts, near Potters Bar/ Hatfield. My profile pic ...

There is not really a submisive one. They spend most of their day together happily with only the occasional spat. The seabright is best friends with one of the hens the pekin is ignored by both hens! The girls are definaltely in charge! Im really cross with the breeder for telling us they were hens....

6 weeks on we are now sure that the bantam seabright and the pekin we have in with 2 hens are boys! We were sold them as hens! The breeder will swap them for hens but, as im sure you will all understand the whole family is very attached to Buba and Nando! They are now around 20 weeks old and have st...

6 weeks on we are now sure that the bantam seabright and the pekin we have in with 2 hens are boys! We were sold them as hens! The breeder will swap them for hens but, as im sure you will all understand the whole family is very attached to Buba and Nando! They are now around 20 weeks old and have st...

Thanks eveyone. We thought she/he was a hen when we got her (sold as such). She/he has been bottom of the pecking order so far, but now we are wondering if hes a cockerel? No crowing - but what age do they starts to crow? The whole problem is we were told it was 14 weeks when we bought it but now re...

weve had them since the beginning of july , 8 weeks ago, the seabright was minimum 4 weeks old when we got it.