All About Chickens

I worked out there are over 80 pages on allaboutchickens.tk!

• Home Page
• News and Site Map
• Site Map (You Are Here)
• News Archives
• Chickens in the News
  
• Coops
• Introduction
• Space Requirements
• Coop Types
• My Coop
• My Ark
• Eglu
• Converting A Shed To A Coop
• Coops That Don't Look Like Coops
• Stable Conversion
• The Run
• Coop Features
• Nestboxes
• Perches
• Pophole
• Feeders and Waterers
• Plastic
• Galvanised
• Piglet Feeders
• Barrel Feeders
• Troughs
• Links
• Feeding
• The Main Food
• The Difference Between Pellets and Mash
• Feeding For Different Ages
• Chick Crumbs
• Grower Pellets
• Layers Pellets
• Breeder Pellets
• Water
• Treats
• Grain
• Fruit and Veg
• Porridge
• Grit and Oyster Shell
• Feed Supplements
• Garlic
• DE
• Bio-live yoghurt
• Links
  
• Behaviours
• Scratch and Peck
• Broodiness
• Dustbathing
  
• Eggs and Manure
• Predators
• Fox
• Dog
• Coyote
• Raccoons
• Badgers
• Opossums
• Humans
  
• Diseases
  
• Anatomy
• Diagnostics
• Digestive Tract Diseases
• Bird Flu
• Parasites
• Deformities
• Other
  
• Timeline of a chicken
• Breeds (this page includes the differences between standard and bantam and rarity classifications.
  
• Chicken Colours
• Egg Colours (e.g. white, brown, green)
  
• Feather Features (e.g. crest, feathered feet)
  
• Comb Types (e.g. single, walnut, rose)
  
• Black, White, Blue and Buff
• Coronation
• Cuckoo or Barred
• Exchequer
• Laced Colours
• Lavender
• Light and Dark Brown
• Light or Columbian
• Mille Fleur
• Partridge and Pencilled
• Pyle
• Splash
  
• Tolbunt
• Wheaten
  
• A-M
• Andalusian
• Araucana or Ameraucana
• Australorps
• Barnevelder
• Brahma
• Cochins
• Crossbreeds and mutts
• Dominiques
• Dutch Bantams
• Frizzles
• Hybrids
• Japanese Bantams
• Jersey Giant
• Leghorn
• Marans
• Modern Game
• N-Z
• Old English Game
• Orpingtons
• Pekin Bantams
• Phoenix
• Plymouth Rock
• Polish
• Rhode Island Red
• Sebright
• Serama
• Sex Links and Autosexers
• Silkie
• Sussex
• Turken
• Welsummer
• Wyandotte
  
• Buying Chickens
• Glossary
• Chicken Names
• Fun Stuff
• My Chickens (a short biography of each of my chickens and a little about me)
  
• Links
• Contact Us
  
• Guestbook

January
1st Jan 07 I have added and completed Pekin Bantams page and added more pictures and reformated many of the breed pages
2nd Jan 07 I have added Phoenix page but not completed it, Why chickens?, About Me (at the bottom of the page), and added more pictures and reformated many of the breed pages. Reformatted egg colours page.
3rd Jan 07 I have reformatted the coops page, as well as adding an example of a stable conversion, coop features - perches, nestboxes and popholes, and an explanation of all the different types of feeders and waterers. Also added to the about me section. Added 'Fun Stuff' page, with 'All I Need To Know In Life I Learnt From My Chickens' and how to hypnotise a chicken.
I have started on a brand new, expanded diseases section. You can see how it is coming along here, but the current disease page will remain for now, before being replaced by the new disease section.
Reformatted more colours pages - black, blue, white and buff, laced colours, barred or cuckoo, light, columbian and buff columbian, partridge, silver pencilled, mille fleur.
4th Jan 07 Reformatted Lavender, coronation, exchequer, light and dark brown, splash and tolbunt colour pages.
Put colour pages into alphabetical order.
Added Wheaten colour page and completed
Merged Partridge and silver pencilled pages
Added Pyle colour page and completed
Completed Phoenix page
5th Jan 07 Added egg faults and egg showing section on eggs and manure page. Uncompleted.
7th Jan 07 Joined the website up to a web ring.
Added no shell to egg faults section on eggs and manure page.
Working on getting a picture of a chicken with a crooked beak for deformities page on the new diseases section.
I will be working on getting www.backyardchickens.com back up and running with Rob. This great website was what gave birth to backyard chickens message board, until the original website was lost.
Added dustbathing and video of a silkie dustbathing to the behaviors page.
Added 'the difference between pellets and mash' and 'feeding for different ages' to feeding page.
8th Jan 07 Updated 'About Me' on my chickens page.
19th Jan 07 Added Dominique picture to new dominique page, courtesy of Della.
20th Jan 07 Finished amalgamating diseases page. Deleted diseases page and put a link to brand new diseases section instead.
Added the rest of the dominique pictures
Merged myths page into fun stuff page.
23rd Jan 07 Added a another link to fun stuff page
25th Jan 07 Started working on predators section. Written about foxes, their distribution, prey and control, and added pictures including a pawprint.
Edited 'where did you find this site' poll to include the poultry ring
26th Jan 07 Finished fox page
Started and completed dogs page.
Started adding ratings to the bottom of various pages.
Nearly finished the coyote page
27th Jan 07 I started volunteering at the city farm today. They have pigs, goats, sheep, calves in the spring, chinese geese, ducks and best of all, chickens. I spent three hours cleaning out and brushing two goats, 1 large sow, and 14 3-month-old piglets. I changed before I went home, but the bloke sat next to me on the bus looked like he didn't want to be there. What does this have to do with the website I hear you ask? Ah, well, I asked if I could take my camera next week and take some pictures for my website and they said yes! I will also be going to the Poultry Club's National Show on Sunday 4th, so more pics there too!
Finished coyote page
Started on raccoons page
28th Jan 07 On my internet travelling, I discovered that Feathersite now links to this website on their awards page.
Added more links.
Moved coop links to coop page, breed links to breed page, feeding links to feeding page.
Added more stuff to fun stuff page
Edited contact us page
Finished dominique page
29th Jan 07 Nearly finished the raccoons page
30th Jan 07 We've been experiencing a three-fold increase in visitors over the past two days. Whether that is anything to do with being linked by feathersite, I don't know, but it is good. We even had four people from Romania yesterday!
Completed raccoons page.
Edited about me section.
Started work on badgers page.
Transferred news section to it's own brand spanking new page, here.
31st Jan 07 News now has it's own page here. However, news from the past week or so will still be displayed on the home page. 

February
2nd Feb 07 Added opossum page
At the bottom of the news page, you can now find a section called 'chickens in the news'.
3rd Feb 07 The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in the UK - Suffolk to be a little more precise. There are various measures in place, affecting various areas of the country. All bird shows, swaps etc. are now banned until further notice, but DEFRA has allowed the National Show at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire to go ahead. Please practice good biosecurity. Read all of DEFRA's advice here. However, don't bother ringing them as they don't know anything - when trying to ask whether the national poultry show was on, the response I got was "Does poultry include chickens?" and then he went off and came back with the response "Uh, I think so". Idiots. Rant over.
4th Feb 07 I went to the national show today. Got lots of pictures, most of them came out but I haven't had any time to upload them yet. There were about 1000 out of 4500 birds absent, probably due to people not knowing that the national was still going ahead. Got lots of nice pictures for a new section on showing eggs.
5th Feb 07 The opossum page is now *nearly* finished.
6th Feb 07 Now finished editing pics from national show to go up on the breeds section. A little over 100 will go up over the next few days.
Images have started to go up, particularly on the araucana and brahma pages.
Added a new link to sussex page
7th Feb 07 Added pic of green eggs to araucana page.
Also added various pictures to the welsummer, wyandotte, sussex, silkie, sebright and turken pages.
8th Feb 07 Added info to diagnostics page, including a link to a hen post mortem.
Added a frostbite page, with picture.
9th Feb 07 Added more links to chickens in the news
10th Feb 07 Added a simple cross to make a sex link - RIR male X Barred Rock Female.
Added notifiable diseases for the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
11th Feb 07 Added pictures to Polish page.
Added more pictures to Tolbunt page
Tidied up some of the colour pages
Added links to egg page
12th Feb 07 Finally finished opossum page
Started and completed humans as predators page
Added table for trying to deduce what killed your chickens here
14th Feb 07 Happy Valentines Day!
Added a video to 'fun stuff' - the angry chicken
15th Feb 07 I've made the suggested reading section much better. Now it has descriptions of what is and isn't useful in each book.
Backyard Chickens, my favourite message board for chickens, has been featured in the Tractor Supply Co.'s (an large chain of American feed stores) instore magazine, OutThere. You can read the online article here, and a post that I made is right down at the bottom.
*Hopefully* I'll be getting a new chicken over the weekend, another welsummer pullet. I just have to wait for the breeder to ring me back and tell me if she has any going spare. Update: she didn't.
16th Feb 07 The UK government has outlined some "hygiene lapses" in the Bernard Matthews poultry plant, more than likely caused the H5N1 outbreak. I hope this reinforces to you the importance of good biosecurity. BBC Article.
We are now allowed to have bird shows, swaps and races again, plus BM has had a fall in sales of 40%. My day just got a lot better . However, those within the protected and surveilance zones still have to keep their birds indoors. One poultry keeper from the area rang up DEATHRA (sorry, I mean DEFRA) and asked why BM could resume imports from Hungary (how this outbreak started) but they could not let their birds outdoors. They were told that BM had a special license, and so of course this poultry keeper asked for a special license. They were, of course, told no. Then again, Mr Matthews has probably just made a large donation to the Labour Party, and is also probably on his way to Buckingham Palace as we speak to collect his peerage. One rule for them and another for us. *Rant over*
If you are in the Bristol / Gloucestershire / Wiltshire / Somerset / Dorset / Devon areas of England and have a good quality welsummer pullet for sale then please let me know. I will collect.
Started work on bobcats page.
20th Feb 07 Reformatted My Chickens / About Me page to get rid of a nasty advert that freewebs puts in for me. Also added in a few new bits and pieces of information. Still looking for that welsummer.
22nd Feb 07 Put up larger pic of my coop on coops page.
The traffic that this website gets looks set to have doubled in the space of one month - from 243 individual users in all of January to 434 so far this month!
Still looking for that welsummer pullet.
23rd Feb 07 Wrote up a section on egg showing here.
Finally did a site map. Turns out there are over 80 pages on the site!
24th Feb 07 Found a picture of a chick with plasters on it's feet to straighten out it's crooked toes. It's now on the deformities page.

March
10th March 07 Been bogged down in work lately, so sorry for the lack of updates really.
I was starting to wonder why I hadn't recieved any questions lately on the contact us page and then found that I have used up all of my submission credits. So, for about a week that page will be out of action. In the mean time, you can email your questions and comments to the_chicken_lady@hotmail.co.uk
12th March 07 For one reason or another, I have not had eggs for 7 months. But today, Molly finally gave me an egg ^_^. It had a little bit of blood on it (normal for the first few eggs a pullet lays) so I'll take a picture and put it up on the egg page.
24th March 07 Sorted out the contact us page now, it's just the same.

April
9th April 07 I have put in a whole new page - raising chicks.
10th April 07 Added 'agricultural shows and fairs' to buying chickens page.
15th April 07 Added sections on inspecting birds for health before buying them and transportation of your new birds to buying chickens page.
26th April 07 Yes, I know I should be updating more but I am getting a mini tidal wave of emails a day from the website's visitors (keep them coming :) ) and there are things to do in the garden . . . like planting out those oversized runner beans *hangs head in shame*. Still, a very nice woman named Maryanne emailed me some more chicken names so those have gone up.

Scientists Find Bird Flu Antibody 29th May 2007

Three-Leg Abandoned Hen Bullied 16th May 2007

Boy Hatches Chick From Shop Egg 10th May 2007

'Stumpy' Now A Three Legged Duck 19th April 2007
The follow up to the four legged duckling shocks owner story.

T-Rex Nothing More Than A Chicken 13th April 2007

Man Fined Over Noisy Cock Crowing 12th March 2007

Four-legged duckling shocks owner 17th February 2007
This became the most emailed and second most read story on the BBC website!

Hygiene 'lapses' at bird flu site 16th February 2007
I hope this just goes to show you how important biosecurity is.

H5N1 Discovered on English Turkey Farm 3rd February 2007

Jakarta Bans Chickens 1st February 2007

Police Warn Over Stolen Chickens 12th January 2007

ASBO Cockerel Wins Court Reprieve 9th September 2006

Cockerel Spared After Crowing "Allah" 28th March 2006

World's Oldest Chicken Dies Aged 16 February 2006

Argument Over Allotment Cockerels 28th August 2005

Four Legged Chick Born in Romania 31st May 2005

Chihuahua Adopts Chick in China 10th March 2005

Fight For Cockerel's Right to Crow 18th February 2005

Surgery to Repair Cockerels Leg 11th October 2004

Eggs in the City 24th May 2004

'Cock-a-Hoop' at Cockerel Move 23rd February 2004
Not sure what they mean by 'long-haired Japanese cockerels'. There is a breed called the Japanese but they are not 'long haired' and there is the silkie, but they are Chinese.

Cockerels Cost Couple £1,000 8th October 2003

• Add breed specific links to breed pages (ongoing)
  
• Finish diseases section (ongoing)
• Deformities
• Twisted beak
• Overgrown upper mandible (beak)
  
• Egg peronitis
• Many more problems and diseases
  
• Dorking breed page
• Barbu D'Uccle Breed Page
• How to make a broody coop
• How to convert a broody coop to isolation coop
• How to break up a broody
• How to deal with feather pecking
• Picture of my chicken Molly
• Basic principles of showing
  
• Chicken-related game on fun stuff
• Add heat lamp to coop features page
• Electric Fencing
• Egg showing
  
• Predators
• How to predator proof your coop
  
• Badgers (in progress)
  
• Eurasian
• North American
• Honey Badger (Ratel)
  
• Birds of Prey
• Bobcats
• Weasels and Mink

Just out of interest, here are the countries that our visitors have come since July 2006. Truly international!

Most visitors come from the USA, closely followed by the UK.

USA                    Bahrein                    Phillipines                Belgium               India
UK                      Italy                         Norway                   Romania               Switzerland
Australia              Germany                 Kuwait                     Hungary               Brazil
Canada                Japan                       Belgium                  Croatia                  Taiwan
Sweden               South Africa             Greece                    New Zealand        Kenya
Spain                   Israel                        South Korea           Ivory Coast           Qatar
Russia                 Iran                            Mexico                  Tanzania                Zambia
Phillipines           Hungary                    France                    South Africa          Latvia
Turkey                Chile                         Netherlands            Ireland                  Czech Republic
Egypt                  Slovenia                   Saudi Arabia           Equador                Lebanon
United Arab Emirates                         Denmark                  Bahamas               Mauritius
Ghana                  Nigeria                     Bangladesh             Pakistan               Argentina
Syria                     Zimbabwe
And a slightly spooky 'unknown' country . . .