Recent content by ginacleaner

Right I am going to be 100% honest and not beat around the bush. Today I put my 3 chicks on nesting straw and the problem with the nesting straw is it gets in to the water. So I tried to make the water higher then the floor brooder so that the straw couldn't get in by putting a turned over...

flock of 11 happy hens. currently hatching chicks! follow _goldline_girl of instaram to keep updated with my flock!! :)

it wouldn't be a problem but because the older birds sleep in the nest box the poo :\ i clean it out once a week so it isn't dirty but one of the girls has started digging around the box and the eggs keep ending up at the bottom so i have to get a glove and dig around for the eggs. they have a...

ok i wasn't sure if the growers had somthing diffrent in that helped them grow or somthing like that! the chicks are starting to do little clucks is that normal? thank you !!

Thank you so much for your help. she has been ill for weeks now but she has sudenly purcked up now!!! strange thing!!

hello, i have two 8 nearly 9 week old chicks. I recently bought a big bag of chick crumb and I have been reading that they need to go on to growers pellets. can i keep giving them the chick crumb till the bag runs out of do i need to change to growers? thanks!

she has been wormed recently. Her poo is a bright yellow i am not sure if thats right. she is fine today and she is ppecking around she seems to enjoy wet wether!! thank you! :-)

i don't think she has it. i looked at her this morning and her comb was red. mabey she has a tumor :-( thank you for you help!

Her crop feels normal, she hasn't got any discharge coming from anywhere. i dont think she has eaten anytheing moldey or rotten she free ranges tho. she has been off couler since she split her vent wich i brought her in for it to heal. she just stands hunched up all the time. :-( thank you for...

Hello I think my hen has ascites. she is a 1 yr old silver line! yesterday she vomited a clear jelly like substance! and she has a bluish/purple comb! she is lieing down a bit in the day but she isn't panting and she hasn't go a bloted tummy! thanks!! she is such a lovely hen i don't want to...

i think she just needs a good bath!! one of my hens is like that but i am waiting for the some warmish weather to wash her! Which i am doubt I will get now since its winter.

thank you so much for all of your help!!!!

Thank you so much for your help! Can I vaccinanate older hens??

Thank you so much for your help! Can I vaccinanate older hens??

I have losed a hen to Marek's Disease. we sadly couldnt save her, in the end we had to kill her. there is no current tretment to Marek's Disease. But there is a vactination!