Recent content by lovemychooksies

Thank you for advice, I am going to do something permanent tomorrow, hate the thought of my lovely girls being hurt or traumatised by this behaviour.

Hi there, thank you so much for replying. Yes will take all your comments on board and try to get them permanently seperated asap. As i said I have a lovely outdoor hut ready for them but failed to get them into it! but I will try your peas method!

Hello, thank you for responding to my question. Yes I must try to seperate them completley, I have only one large pen at the moment with the coop and duck hut in it but what I did in the last few days is let the ducks out of the pen before letting the chickens out in the morning, and they head...

Hello, one of my drakes has been trying to mate with my chickens for the last month. He seems to have a favourite hen to try and mate with, who technically is his mother as when she was broody I put 6 duck eggs under her to hatch, him being one of them. I am very concerned as i think he...

Hi! Thank you. I posted this query yesterday and i really did hope I would get some suggestions, as I am worried, and I joined here as I thought I would have experienced chicken keepers to help me out. I am relativley new at keeping hens, 10 months. But I am coping very well and I adore my...

Hi thank you all for taking the time to reply to my post and offering any advice you may have - NOT! I guess I will just have to seek advice from another source. I thought joining this site would be helpful, I thought wrong. I will be buying some books, which I am confident will be more...

Hi, my bearded Araucana has become very lethargic in the last 4 days, I notice she is first in the coop in the evening, and last out in the mornings. She seems to walk quite slowly and has taken to just sitting in random areas with her eyes closed and head slightly tilted to the side. She also...

Hi, I removed three of the eggs so now she is sitting on 3 only.all duck eggs!! of course he would know better than this and now I regret removing them, but to be honest 3 ducklings are enough for me. I have a problem I would like advice about, when i checked her this morning one of her 3 eggs...

Thank you that is helpful, but now I have put fertilized eggs under her I dont have the heart to take them from her! But I am thinking that it is not a good idea to have a mixture of duck and hen eggs for hatching as the ducks will hatch 2 weeks earlier than the chi'xks I believe. So what I am...

Thank you, I would love a few chicks for the children, but my coop only small, made for 6 to 8 hens! I have 5.

Hi everyone, in the last 2/3 days one of my hens has taken to sitting in the nest box all day long. she comes out for food in the morning but the hogs the nest box all day after that. I have 5 hens, no rooster, all five are laying, and I only have 2 nesting boxes. I have another little house in...

Hi I have an Ameraucana, she is lovely but was having a tough time being bullied by one of the ducks, a drake who singled her out and bullied her, quite viciously too, she has lost a lot of her back feathers due to this treatment. He wouldnt touch any of the other hens or rooster just her...

Hi, just google bluebell chickens and you will see, they are a beautiful hen, I think so anyway!

Hello, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I will take your advice on board, see how she is in a week and if no better I will bring her to a vet.