Phil, I dont know if this is just co incidence but you mentioned your girls squatting down infront of you about a week before they started laying, Verity had the same experience with her girls ... Mine started doing the same about a week ago.. It may be a submissive thing but it realy does look as t...

Two eggs this morning :mrgreen: .. sadly both soft shelled and it looks as though they were dropped from a perch! :( but the 'interior' is still intact on both eggs - so no egg eating I think .. We're getting there

Nothing yet.. Kittens kicking like crazy and Tigger is looking a bit tired now, (caught two mice yesterday mind).. I'll see if I can get a half decent photo of her and post it on my little album.. Thanks for thinking of her though, its realy nice of you both to ask, especialy now as I've just heard ...

I trust this chap spent a good few hours in amongst the hens to appreciate their happiness at being there! Maybe he and 4 others may like to experiment in a cage approx six feet square (proportionately), no toilet, no bed, having their food, anti-biotics and other super mega plus vitamins fed to th...

After reading several of the posts re ex batts on here, I think you may have to time everything around when you can get the battery hens..

I dont know about gift wrapping it but I feel a bit strange about eating it..

YEEEEEHAAAAAA!!!!! :mrgreen: We have lift off!! Our very first egg - about half size but perfect in every other way (cant have it all can we).. well we are chuffed, 18 weeks on the dot! That is if the chap we bought them from was correct in aging them.. Eeee bah gum and all that, I cant stop grinnin...

I've not really tried mine on left overs, they love beetroot raw and cooked - nothing quite as gory looking as a chicken with its beak dripping red ... . I'm a bit scared of them putting on too much weight through incorrect diet, apperently this can lead to problems such as being egg bound etc.. The...

I wish we'd known what we know now....ho hum... we would definately have got Black Rock but would have timed it so that we could have had at least the same amount of ex battery hens at the same time.. And Phil, you're right.. ours are strutting around in the wind and rain without a care in the world...

How about berries? mine love blackberries, blueberries, rosehips and strawberries, also little tomatoes... These would 'up' her fluid intake too....
Tina

Hi.. I can only join the pro Black rock gang... We did a lot of reading before deciding on the breed and the Black Rocks came up trumps for egg laying and health / toughness... Do yourself a favour though, no matter what the breed - get as many chickens as you can right at the start, we decided on f...

Found this quite interesting

http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp

H emmamoo... I've got several huge conifers in the garden and the chooks love to shade under them from the sun and rain.. no ill effects after five / six? weeks so I recon its ok... I know just how you feel, we were so excited when the collection day came.. great stuff, enjoy!!

I've found the same PK, If they have a choice it will be corn everytime, so I have the pellets in a feeder which they rush to every morning as soon as they're let out and I then scatter a good amount of corn for them in the afternoon / evening.. They free range all day and have just discovered ripe ...

My mum and my grandma before her used shopping bags or string bags...