Posts by kellysmall87

Sometimes she gets bullied, so she tends to hang out with the young chicks from this years hatch. I think she is low in the pecking order for sure. Animals don't like weakness, do they?!

Beauts! Thanks for sharing.

Wow, there's such a difference between the first three and the last pic that it leaves me to believe that the others are roo's. Should start crowing at 16-20 weeks so see what happens then. What will you do with the roo's?

There's loads of good information on here. All they need is to be kept clean, warm, fed and watered. No doubt you'll encounter problems along the way. Just type the problem into the search bar and away you go. Good luck being a first...

Yeah I check regularly for mites and she has none. The vet checked her poop for worms and she had none so the worming treatment that I use definitely works. The smell has gone so I take it that the infection has gone. She's eating,...

Don't know about the breed but well done for rescuing it and also, what a gorgeous little chick!!

you can buy leg rings from ebay? If they are young chickens then colouring feathers may not work as they could moult them. If you cant get the rings, how about you make your own from coloured cable ties tied v, loosely around their...

A few months ago, I posted about my hen. I bought her from someone I knew. I got her home and saw that she was riddled with mites, she stank to high heaven of infection and her tail was down. I cleared up her mite problem and then fed...

You have a bulge on the end, is that a kidney or something? I would say kill it quickly, the pain must be bad!

Hi, I would be exactly the same. It was their responsibility not to let the dog loose around your animals, especially when it was clear that the dog doesn't like the animals and already showed some biting behaviour. It's not the dog's...