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As you can see from the title I live in Malta. For those of you who do not know where that is, it is a small island just 60km south of Sicily. Even though I have always been very interested in chickens, I have only just got around to actually starting to keep them seriously. I am semi-retired and work in the local English speaking newspaper as a librarian. I spent 18 years working in Libya and as that meant travelling backwards and forwards a lot, I never had the chance to get any poultry before now. At the moment I have four normal brown egg layers that I originally got just to have fresh eggs available, I also have one silkie cockerel, partridge colour about 8 months old that I hatched from an egg sent from the UK and three chicks in the brooder that I think are serama, wyandotte and light sussex. I am hoping to specialise primarily in serama but as they are few and far between in Malta, I am going to have to rely on finding someone willing to sell and send me some hatching eggs either from the UK or Europe.
I am looking forward to making a lot of new friends on this website and hopefully learning a lot more about chickens in general.
For now this is all , I just wanted to say hello
Ken

Hi Ken and welcome to Poultry Talk. com
I really hope you will enjoy being a member here. If you need any help please let me know, you can always email: mail@poultrytalk.com

Sounds like you live in a lovely part of the world and have lead an amazing varied lifestyle. Great to hear you have some birds now. I too am hoping to get some Serama in the autumn and you can have certainly come to the right site, we have several Serama experts on the forum, so hopefully can you find out more on them and pick their brains

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,
Jamie.

Hi Ken, its nice having someone from back home so interested in poultry, especially Silkies and Serama as I was until last year UK Club secretary to both clubs. Its a shame I didnt know of your interest before as I was visiting my sister in Zabbar on a couple of weeks ago and I could have brought you some eggs for you from reputable breeders here in the UK. Maybe when I come over again, (possibly November and if the birds are laying??) I will let you know one way or the other. Take care

Hi Ken
Just found this site and joined up, notice you live in Malta, I live in Spain, I have been wondering if it is possible to get hatching eggs sent from the UK reading your posts it seems it is possible to Malta!
Do you know what the regulations are etc.
Regards
Chris