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Hi Everyone, I need some advice on re homingmy chickens. Unfortunately I cannot take my girls with me as I am leaving France to return to the Uk. I have three girls which I have had for a few years now and want to know what is the best time to rehome, during the day or night. The lady that is...

I found this in Blodwyns poo this morning, is it a lash egg ?

Can anyone tell me if you can give treatment for cocci and antibiotic at the same time. Blodwyn has not eaten or drank much for two days and is just sitting or standing hunched up and not well at all. I have checked her crop and that seems fine, also checked to see if egg bound and all looks...

Ten days ago I posted a picture of a lash egg. I did not know what this was until someone told me on this forum so I looked it up. Because if the lock down restrictions here in France I did not go rushing off to the vet but read up everything I could on line and treated Poppy myself. She would...

The four girls enjoying a rare dry sunny day to dust bath, all in the same hole :wee This tree is amazing as no matter how torrential the rain has been lately with high winds their little area here always stays dry

I have talked about this recently with Daisy having a red bottom. I just thought her feathers were not growing back but I now have definate proof she is being pecked at. This morning when I let the chickens out Daisy was bleeding where she had been pecked. I have been putting calendula cream on...

My Sussex Daisy has been limping now for a couple of months or more, I have been to the vet with her, he couldn't find any obvious injury although she did have bumblefoot (which I diagnosed, he had no idea) so following advice from here I got the infection out, I also give her a foot bath every...

Sadly last week I lost Fleur, my lovely sussex chicken. Whilst I was out at work a large dog got into the garden from next door and killed her, it was so horrible to find her body still warm and if only I had got home just half an hour earlier? My other two girls had also completely disappeared...

I have been given a rescued partridge today by my neighbour who found it cowering in his garage. It is hunting season now in France and today they have been shooting all day right in the field opposit my house, I absolutely hate it. The only thing we could do to keep it safe was to put it in...

Is this a normal molt??? Fleur has been loosing feathers for about a month now, a few around her vent to start with then this last week more and more with the coop and garden covered in them. She is not particularly agitated, not stressed, no diarrhea, no mites, as far as I can see anyway and...

I have been treating my sick chicken with metoxyl for a week after the vet diagnosed cocci. She has been great all week, eating normally, was drinking a lot of water and happily following the other chickens in The garden looking for grubs etc, in other words a happy chicken but also yesterday...

nearly two weeks ago my sussex hen went broody but I managed to get her out if it after one week, but have had no eggs since. She is a young hen and had only just started laying four weeks before.How long will it be before she starts to lay again. She was the best layer, super large eggs each...

Hi, I am a newby chicken owner. I have only three chickens, a rhode island red named Rosie, A sussex named Fleur and a plymouth rock named Geraldine (my husbands choice of name ) I have only had them about six weeks and am in absolute love with them. They all have such different personalities...