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France & Andorra are the worst I've ever experienced. 🤢 Any of the Germanic countries were pristine.

I hope so too. That's a very nice looking rooster.

He's pretty! 🥰

All my bantams prefer to stand on my hands & be carried that way. My standards prefer the firm hold around the wings & across the breast.

How brave are you? I couldn't cope & would refuse point blank to go to any of it~ though I quite see family could be a tad difficult. Having experienced French public toilets in remote places I do not recommend ~ not even in extreme emergencies! 🤣

I have to say being Bucket Boy's chickens rather than allotment chickens is probably a lot better for the chickens. :lol:

Roses love horse manure.

🎆Congratulations, Shad!🎆 Your posts are among the very few that make sense to me. While I do view my chickens as pets I have always liked your keeping arrangments & within my limitations have implemented what I could. Ha'penny is back on the lay. I'm lucky no~one decided to sit. The bantams...

My Vorwerks don't alarm when they see my cats. They straight out attack. My biggest Vorwerk is extremely aggressive. None of my other hens pay the cats any attention @ all. The bantams will give them a very wide berth.

Thanks. That's interesting. Next door has just 2 also & they spend a lot of time along the fence line chatting to my girls.

What breed are they, Shad? If you've said, I've missed it. And can you say what you think of their keeping arrangements. Just curious as it's yet another backyard keeping arrangement that is probably different to what I'm used to.

Yep. Some hens are just really smart broodies. Others... not so much. Chavi, my little black Jap is a nut job. Sweet as can be but totally clueless. Titania, the splash D'Uccle frizzle & Alpia, the lighter of my Wyandotte bantams, allow themselves to be pushed around by bigger & more...

My Ceres, the splash Jap, went broody as soon as she came on the lay. Being a really juniour hen she made a nest outside the coop & run & had about 6 eggs under her . She's one of the hens I'm hoping to let sit as she's always been smart about her nesting & gets neither all bokky & aggro like...

@ManueB Here are some of this summer's broodies being nutty. There was a row over the available boxes but that didn't stop anyone.

Ok, I'm not the world expert on broodiness ~ I just have a lot of broody types @ my place. 😂 Typically my hens will go broody as the weather warms up. Why? Well for one thing there is heaps of natural food around. For another a broody generates extra body heat to incubate the eggs & warmer...

I found a Jap sitting on a hidden nest this week too. 😂 Middle of winter here too! What was she thinking?:he

Not really. They still go ballistic trying to get back on the nest. Partly it depends on how determined they are. Wrold is impossible to break. She tells me lies; I let her out; she goes broods again. If I persist I just make both of us unhappy. Better to let her get it out of her system...

@micstrachan : Shad is right. With the move I had no viable way to break 8 broodies ~ most of whom were nest & egg sharing. They took over the shed nests. I let them sit & just monitored to make sure everyone got off the nest @ least once a day. @MaryJanet does the same. There are videos on...

Thank you. ☺️ I have a pechant for pretty hens. 😂

Your chickens are beautiful. Unfortunately I won't live long enough to keep all the beautiful chickens I would like!:lol: