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Hi Everybody, sorry for the absence, but wildlife kept wiping out my flock. So it's been a while since I had chickens, but this month I got 6 hens. Nothing special just brown laying hens. Amazed at how docile they are. I am keeping them in the coop and pen indefinitely now. I have had enough...

Oh my gosh, that is terrible. People stealing chickens for a quick meal on the country side is pretty bad, but stealing pedigree poultry with the Bundesring... shocking. I bet they weren't breeders, otherwise they would have known better. Those birds are traceable. I am so sorry this happened...

I have never had health issues with my Light Sussex, except once, where a couple of young ones died of no apparent cause. I think it was some bad genetic thing going on there. I haven't seen it in last years hatch, so I think it is gone, along with a lot of hens and roosters. I need to fix my...

It's 6 young hens! you'd think I could find that many, but no, I just can't. Normally my dog can sniff them out, but not even he can find where they go.

Any advice for young hens camping out at night? I can't find where they go, and am not here to see where the come back from. This is now going on a month and to my surprise, none have been eaten, so they are obviously well hidden.

That is so cool, I'd go there just to photograph the street names. 😅Do they have festivities as well?

I have a lot of cockerals, let's just say too many at the moment. Problem is, they are not big enough to eat yet. Had one young one die. Found it in the run, but it was eaten beyond recognition, so don't know if it was male or female and two were taken by a hawk, also the young ones, the big...

Not getting notifications..so CONGRATULATIONS APATCHY!!!!! 🎉🏆 that is so great, and I am so happy for you!

Yup. If you have ever looked at British birds, it should be obvious, they breed to a different Standard, and the birds do look very different. British bird:German bird The British go for the Cochin look and have a shorter stance. They do that with labrador dogs too, they also have shorter...

Fun fact...the German Light Sussex as we know here, does not come from the British Iles, it was bred to Standard in Switzerland in 1910 from Dorking, Brahma and Cochin!

Last ones in the shed brooder, but I'm kicking them out soon. Yesterday, the young ones were enjoying the sun.

🤣🤣 I guess they both start with "S" though. With all the chicken names like another one Sundheimer..looks like a Sussex, but has feathered feet. Would have gone for them, but feathered legs and feet with my soil, heavy loam was asking for trouble.

I have had that too, with roosters. All of a sudden the girlfriend didn't want him after all...🧐(He was free!) I was really not bothered though. A friend of mine took him, and paid me for him, so win win.

Here are the results of the first lot of this years breeding. I got a couple of odd balls from the mixed hen, so they are on the sell list, but most have turned out good.

Welcome @Silkie Princess great to have you here!

Don't talk to me about moulting...I am too embarrassed for them, to even take a picture. 😂

So haven't written for a while, have been busy with other things. @abpatchy It's a real shame, you had no success withn the white Sulmthalers. They are so cool. I am overrun with young chickens now. Some have to go, but are a bit young still, to sell. One young Rooster didn't make the grade, so...

So these are the first 8 of my F1 generation, almost a month old. I love this age. They look like mini chickens! 😂

I don't know what feeders they sell. There is something called a grampa feeder, it's pretty loud when they step off though. Here they also sell step on feeders like this. I use a big dog bowl, but I might buy one of these. Because of mice and birds.

I got nine more chicks, from 10 eggs and they started hatching a day early, then the rest came yesterday, right on their due date. I could have hatched all 10, but I was clumsy and dented one, while transfering them into the hatcher. Had a pretty thin shell.. put it in anyway, because I was...