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my big old matriarch loves me, but only me. She has learned to tolerate one of my other hens, but 3 new pullets I got last month are simply not given time of day by her - she either attacks them constantly or chased them from food or 'her' space. She even spends all her time as far from them as...

I recently got a new batch of pullets and introduced them to my current babies, knowing full well my oldest would throw her weight around for a few days to make sure they knew she was the boss. So predictable chaos ensued, much pulling of neck feathers and nipping at backsides, but no real...

my hens free range in the garden and although I am constantly poop-picking after them and try to keep the place as clean as possible, the warm weather has meant we are being swarmed, excuse the pun, by plagues of big black bluebottle flies. They are attracted by the poop but there are so many...

The baby at the bottom of the pecking order is being prevented from getting in the coop at night by the other girls. They are sitting across the door and pecking her head if she tries to get in. Ive seen her have to spend the night sleeping in the sawdust in the run underneath after shes been...

hi sweeties, wonder if anyone knows the answer to my baby beast's sore bum problem? My sweetest gingerbeast rescue hen has never regrown the feathers on her bum, a strip down her breastbone and her crop and although she's happy, healthy, lays the biggest eggs (100g!!! :-0) she is always sore...

I think she's got some kind of egg binding thing going on, possibly infection. She has definately laid yesterday and a broken thin shelled egg today but she's really been down the last few days, not wanting her treats, not wanting to run about with the rest, and just wanting to cuddle in on my...

My poor boo is acting so depressed, doesnt want to eat, doesnt want to play, doesnt want to egg and just looks sad all the time. This morning she let me cuddle her on my lap and ruffle through her feathers taking out all the loose ones while she closed her eyes and had a wee sleep, I guess it...

I'm really worried about my betsy girl. We've had severe storms and well below freezing temperatures here over the past couple of weeks and it's really upset my girls, I'm taking them into the house for a while during the day so they can get some excercise and some warm dry time, and upping the...

I dont know what to do. the sewer drains are either blocked or over capacity since a new housing development was built up the hill and every time it rains they overflow, complete with human waste, tissues etc all over our garden and our neighbours properties. So far we are being fobbed off with...

My chickens love to nest down, they LOVE to snuggle and most of all they love, love, love to come into 'mummy's' big house to find something cuddly to bed down in, my feather duvet, the laundry pile, the sheepskin rug, the hall carpet and the absolute no.1 favourite item, my fur lined parka...

or is it just mine? I had real problems with one biting everything, including me during her recent moult and now one of my other girls has started acting up, feather pulling, getting up in my face aggressive and generally being a complete monster hen while she is clearly moulting feathers all...

Help, my baby gingerbeast has had the most awful eczema for a while now and it just doesn't seem to be letting up. The poor baby is so itchy and uncomfortable with huge bare patches of peeling dead and crinkly old skin that comes off in sheets (like old sunburn). I help her once a week by giving...

One of my hens is a lovely little thing, as happy as can be, lots of lovely eggs and a wee chubby fluffball to boot. but for months now she pee-pees when she comes out of the coop first thing. A proper wet pee, like a human or a dog would do. a skoosh of clear water. Then for the rest of the day...

I'm looking at moving to a new home but the area where the coop and run would have to go is cobbled. As it's a historic listed property the cobbled cant be lifted or altered, and I wondered if it would be OK for the hens to live on a stone based run? (they'll still get supervised free-range in...

I have my poorly baby tucked up on my lap wrapped up in a wee blanket as I type. She's had very runny poo for the past couple of days and she smells pretty bad too, she did lay an egg this morning but when I broke it the white was very cloudy and watery, not like normal egg white. She's...

not in my hens as far as I know thank goodness, but there have been warning on the news today about a couple of outbreaks at UK poultry farms and warnings about the possible spread to wild and pet birds. The warning signs are a bit concerning as they say to watch for a drop in egg production...

on of my hens lacks people skills. and I mean really lacks them, she's a little hannibal lecter of a hen. She wants to be with people as much as the others but nothing I do seems to stop her wanting to bite and peck. From trying to grab my fingernails, buttons on clothes, pulling on clothes...

this is my Naomi, a 2 year old ex-commercial layer who came to me a beat up scabby wee scrap of a thing. She enjoys her new life very much.

One of my hens will just not SHUT the F*** UP. She is the screechiest noisiest loudest complainer in the whole world. everything is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA this or WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA that. the others dont have this problem and she isn't scared or giving a warning cluck or anything...

My Gingerbeast has turned out the loveliest most docile friendly hen in the whole world. a million miles from the scared little creature I brought home from the rescue centre not 6 months ago. At first I didn't expect her to last a week she was in such a mess, but she's thrived and she's the...