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I got two new pullets about 3 weeks ago, and one of them very quickly developed watery diarrhoea. She is behaving normally in every other way, and laying fine. They are eating the same feed that came from the breeder, and she seems to be eating normally (although not top of the pecking order so...

I have a Nera hen, Lady Marmalade, about 8 months old. Last Monday I took her to the vet because she was just standing about listlessly, not scratching or doing the usual chickeny things, and when I picked her up I realised she had lost a lot of weight - now only 1.5kg (3lb 5oz). The vet...

I thought that I would love to see chickens pottering about in my garden, but it hasn’t worked out that way. Mostly I just feel guilty about the fact that they haven’t got much space and seem a bit bored a lot of the time. I only have 2 hens now (used to be 3 but the old ex-bat died). The two...