Posts by Nonny

Another day has passed and she seems to be rallying. Her tail seems not so droopy today and I've seen her actively drinking today. She is still coughing/crowing a lot though and not eating much at all.    I'm still hoping...

One of our girls seems to have infectious bronchitis or something similar. I separated her from the flock as soon as I noticed she wasn't well and the others have so far shown no symptoms at all, but everything I've read suggests that...

The one on the left is a Welsummer, and the little dark head poking through at the far left is Nutmeg, our Barnevelder. When the four are all ranging together they are such a pretty lot! <3 

Hello! I thought it about time I added pics of my lovely Freckles now that she's almost grown up. :-) She hatched on 17th December so I guess she's about 18 weeks old now. She has a lovely nature and gets on really well with her...

I currently have 12.8 sq ft (doing the conversion from metric) per chicken, including the coop and the covered run. They also get free range of my yard from time to time (the big girl gets to range daily for a few hours, the little...

I think the ONLY reason it worked as well as it did was because the smaller chicks had a definite advantage of not only their numbers (they had the majority 4 against 1) but also it was their turf the older hen was coming into. Had...

Well it's been a couple of weeks and I'm so pleased to report that all five girls are getting on well and there have been no injuries at all, only a bit of "hair pulling" from time to time. They are all roosting on the same roosts at...

SUCCESS!!!!!   It's day 4 (I think LOL) and tonight when I checked on them they were all sharing the top roost, although Penny was at one end, and the chicks at the other.    She still chasees them around the...

Quote: Originally Posted by claudicles   Your little ones will be on the roosts before long then they'll lose interest in sleeping in the nesting box. I sure hope so! The thing is they were already using the...

Hehe...a Chook is my slang for chicken. ;)   She's not the mother of the chicks, it was the chicks' coop until my other adult chicken died so the big girl had to move early into the coop with the younger ones. The chicks have...