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Hi there.
Welcome to the new Poultry Talk. A free to join and use Forum and network.

It is so easy to meet new people interested in poultry from around the globe and stay in touch using Poultry Talk. I really do hope this site will benefit you. Although it does contain many features, I think it maintains a clean look and easy to use/navigate feel.

If you have any feedback, or ways in which I could improve the site please do post them or let me know, and if you need any help, just click the 'Help' link below your account name or ask myself.

I do have further plans for the site in the future and to enable it to grow we need to spread the word. I am of course doing this, but if you are able to tell your friends, provide a link to us or tell anyone you think would be interested, this would help. Thank you.

I look forward to seeing you on here, please do introduce yourself!

Hi all recently joined and would like to know if anyone else lives in Wales? I live in South Wales and like all chickens, have a fairly mixed bunch at moment, might get more Pekins or Wyandottes.

Hi Annabelle.
Welcome to Poultry Talk. com. Not from Wales myself, think we may have a couple of members from Wales, not sure how active they are on the network yet though.

I do have a very soft spot for pekins, use to keep them in four colours, they are such docile and friendly little birds, now widely available in soo many pretty colours, along with the Wyandottes.

Do keep us updated on how you get on with you birds.
Look forward to hearing more.

Regards,
Jamie.

Hi Annabelle, I m in south wales!

Alex

Hi poppydog66
thx 4 reply nice to know i'm not alone, like your pictures..

Thanks Annabelle, nice to know I m not the only nutty chicken lover in south wales lol!

Hi Alex, you r not alone lol... started with a few layers now got chickens everywhere..they drive the kids mad always chasing them around so funny..

Yep thats how we started, got some ex free range chickens - loved em - got some more lol! then got Galagher the guard goose, shortly followed by his missus Gladys. Then we got Burdie the marran as a wee little thing ( about the size of a tennis ball with legs) - he is now our resident stud and all round show off lol. Then recently we got three cherry valley ducks who will hopefully be joined by Mr Duck at the weekend! The daughter thinks its all fab she spends most of her time walking round with Burdie or some one tucked under her arm! My sons just think ive lost the plot and the OH just goes with the flow now - he has given up trying to persuade me to take up normal past times like house work! lol

oh dear sounds just like my lot kids these days lol...

Hi I'm new to keeping chickens, so new I haven't got any hens yet, still building there hotel.
So I could do with some advice on the number of large hens i can keep in the space i have avalable please,
so far they have a shed five foot six by five foot six for there roost and nesting space and a scratching shed will be five foot six by therteen foot when its finished.
I can only find info for open runs not a scratching shed, and that gose from ten square foot per hen to forty square foot per hen !!! the later would allow for one and a half hens.
I hope someone will have an ansewer, befor i get cried away with all the breeds i like and want to keep lol
( too much choice and limeted space )
thank you
Paul
BB

Hi! There! I currently have 8 Straight run chicks. I have reared baby chicks before but never as straight run, how do i tell the difference from a cockerel and a hen when they are so young, what is the best age to start looking for a difference!?

Hi there I am new to this, I have just been given as a birthday gift 2 beautiful 17week old Isa Warrens and I want to get it right, I live in East Lothian in Scotland, I have slabbed where the coop sits and at the moment they are on a gravel run but have fenced off part of the garden for them, so they will have some grass I only have had them 2 days so they are still getting used to me and their new surroundings any advice would be gratefully received.

Hi, Sounds like your doing everything right :) I'm sure pretty soon you will end up getting more hens. Chicken keeping very soon turns into an obsession!

Hey, I'm new here. I got my hens just a few days ago and they're still settling in. Just came on here in case I ever needed any help with them, and help other people with their hens as well.

Hi and welcome. Sorry for the delay in replying.

Hope you will enjoy being a member. Please do post any questions you have and make yourself 'at home'. If you need any help, please let us know.

Enjoy your birds!

Regards,
Jamie.

Hi there
I am new to this so winging it at the moment.
I have had chickens for a year now but at the moment I am having problems with them. They have got colds and it is going round and round. I was wondering if it is the water I am using. I have to get it out of a water tank in the field where I keep them as there is no tap, and pigeons poo in the water. I clean it out but as soon as i clean it, they poo in it again. What I would like to know is if anyone has tried using viratec-p in the drinking water and if it will stereilise the water.

Hi there I am new to this, I have just been given as a birthday gift 2 beautiful 17week old Isa Warrens  and I want to get it right, I live in East Lothian in Scotland, I have slabbed where the coop sits and at the moment they are on a gravel run but have fenced off part of the garden for them, so they will have some grass I only have had them 2 days so they are still getting used to me and their new surroundings any advice would be gratefully received.

Hi Byppy You sound as if you are doing OK. Just wondered how fox proof they are? You are shutting them in the coop at night? Also foxes roam in the day as well. You need six foot high wire to be safe.

Hi all, im new here and im also pretty new at keeping hens. Last april they are x battery hens. I have a problem one of my hens keeps repeatedly opening its beak and gaping making no sound, it wont eat or drink either. Ive read up and i think its gapeworms, my birds are in contact with many other birds includin pheasants. Please, please can someone help me any suggestions thanks

hello everyone i,m from south east us., i have been around chickens my whole life as chickens run in my family 4 generations, i keep all kinds of chicken but bantys are my favorite,i have my show birds my egg layers and a few meat birds i just get alot of enjoyment working with the birds makes me happy to make them happy

Hi i'm from Glos. & I am going to get a few chucks soon, so far I have a coop, now need to visit the domestic fowl trust to make a final decision on 'the breed' :)

Hi - I live in the north of Scotland on the lovely Moray Firth. I live with my husband, 2 cats, 140 hens and cockerels and about 30 quail. I try and just have rare breeds but inevitably a few others creep in. We are quite isolated, surrounded by fields, hence being able to keep lots of cockerels. Busy at the moment with lots of chicks - three broodies sitting and 2 incubators full - all due this week.

Love to talk to people who love poultry and don't get bored with me going on and on about hens !!!!!

3 years ago I started showing - I usually show some birds twice a year and have done quite well so far. Cockerels have a habit of losing their tail feathers a week before showing !!!

Hi Sunflower.

A warm welcome on board to the Poultry Talk. com network. We hope you will enjoy being a member here.

Sounds like you live in a lovely part of the country. Must be nice to live in such a rural area and there for have no cockerel restrictions. How I miss not having a cockerel soo much!

Sounds like you have a nice 'flock' of birds. I look forward to hearing more about them.

Good luck with your showing, our new Shows and events section, will be online soon. Maybe we will meet you at the National Poultry show in November?

I am sorry your post has not been replied to, originally this post was designed as a welcome to the network from myself, when it first started.

Regards
Jamie.

Hi there thought i would say hello, just joined poultry talk ..I am a complete newbie......had my ladies since last Tuesday Queenie a light sussex.....Jemima a silver sussex and Rainie a black maran ........they seemed to have settled in and on Sat had the first egg not sure which one is laying.....so at the moment everything is ok...just waiting for the others to start.... anyone with any advice they would like to share would be grateful

Hi there thought i would say hello, just joined poultry talk ..I am a complete newbie......had my ladies since last Tuesday Queenie a light sussex.....Jemima a silver sussex and Rainie a black maran ........they seemed to have settled in and on Sat had the first egg not sure which one is laying.....so at the moment everything is ok...just waiting for the others to start.... anyone with any advice they would like to share would be grateful

Hi there thought i would say hello, just joined poultry talk ..I am a complete newbie......had my ladies since last Tuesday Queenie a light sussex.....Jemima a silver sussex and Rainie a black maran ........they seemed to have settled in and on Sat had the first egg not sure which one is laying.....so at the moment everything is ok...just waiting for the others to start.... anyone with any advice they would like to share would be grateful