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We've been hatching baby quail and they are so adorable! We've ended up with a lovely mix of colours. My favourites are the Rosettas so I'm glad some Rosetta Tuxedos hatched. The oldest babies are now a week and a half old and I can't believe...

My clever Old English Game Bantam has, so far, hatched one quail chick for us. We are in New Zealand and we are lucky to have only a few poultry diseases to deal with here. There is strictly no imports of any live birds of any kind. We have too many critically endangered native birds to risk...

Here is our outside flock of bantams and light breeds who are all around 2 years old. They were all bought as pullets. Our Bantam Wyandottes Happy Mrs Chicken is currently broody and screaming at anyone who wants to lay an egg. She did not moult last Autumn and has laid all Winter (it's...

I hope it's ok that I put these photos on a new page but I just had to share some more photos of our Silkie chicks (and I couldn't be bothered editing the other page and having to drag the photos to the bottom each time I added one). They just look hilarious at the moment as they have lots of...

We recently lost a Pekin (bantam Cochin) pullet that we all adored - she was so sweet and friendly. Her name was Calypso and she was only 20 weeks old. She was mottled and just starting to get all her beautiful spots. We were all pretty devastated to lose her. Calypso before she got sick...

Here we have Happy Mrs Chicken on the left and her sister, Sparkles, on the right. They are bantam Wyandottes. They are both madams but gorgeous. Sparkles, at the age of about 7 months decided to moult and is only just now getting her feathers back. Soon to join our flock were Pixie and...