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I was thinking of worms !! Thank you, will head to the vet to get some worm treatment for the girls. Will keep you posted !

Its almost night here in France, thinking I should put her to bed elsewhere for the night ? !

Closer look and not red at all (I think the first pic you actually where looking at her crest as she was picking at herself). But feathers all crusty so there must be some discharge or irritation? I fed her with one of the others and she ate a bit but is definatly slow and floppy !

THANK you ! I'm waiting for a second pair of hands to come home to help catch and take pics... Will be back

Hello all and hope you are well. About a month ago I introduced 2 1yr old organic laying hens to my 3 hens. Its taking a while to integrate into the group and laying has becoming sporadic and has now diminished to 1 egg per day. On of the new hens is really showing signs of isolating herself...

We had 4 chickens having good life in our place, freerange in the large garden, next to wilderness. Recently I had to move around my mobile chicken house and these lead to have 2 chickens being caught by fox a little be off night time. Then I relocated the house to the original place and baugth...

Thank you so much for your reply... I did feel a bit guilty as we forgot to change the time the automatic door closes AGAIN :( Your story is funny as I have also come home in the evening to find our chickens all asleep at our front door ! So you were right, I did find another wound... Not...

Thank you ! I'll take a pic when she comes out of her hutch later... The wound is doing ok, cleaning with Tea Tree. Now worried about Rabies !!! BUT my hen seems to have been mentally traumatized or injured. Her behavior has totally changed. She will eat and drink but mostly just stands in...

Good evening from France ! So lucky, as almost falling asleep last night, I heard the beginning of a Fox attack. Hadn't noticed that the automatic door had closed with 3 of my 4 hens not in yet.... Managed to stop the attack, with mostly what seems like lots of lost feathers, but have found...

Hi all, Our first broody Hen is upon us ! We don't have a cockral or fertalized eggs, so are only interested in the broodiness if its good for the hen ! The problem is the heat. In a pretty high heat wave here in France (late 30°C's) and I'm worried about her not drinking. I've tried...

Bonjour Suzie ! Yes hot hot hot, 40°C today. Poor chickens, I'd heard you should leave them 3 days in their house for 3 days when you bring them home but so hot, so I left them 24 hours and then had to "extract" them from the house to cool down in the garden ... A bientôt !

MERCI Still trying to get our new little flock to settle in (only 24 hours later). Are planning to build the "PatchtoTable" drainpipe feeder. Will let you all know how that goes.

Thank you both ! Very helpful... I didn't realize that they wouldn't overeat and was not really understanding the "constant" feeder. I was more worried about over spending on feed as I'm planning to go organic. So will get hubby to build them a feeder (he has already done the water !). What...

Bonjour ! I'm so happy to have found this forum as I research many many details (a bit late) as my 4 laying hens have arrived today ! I am a Canadian living in France with hubby and 2 kids. I have avoided chickens for years as I'm worried about them creating too much havoc in the veg garden...