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Hi all Our chickens keep flying up on the fence and out of the run into the off-limit garden and it's driving me and my husband bonkers! How high do we need to build the fence? It is now 4ft (1.20m) and it has Alcatraz-style overhanging chicken wire on top. We also tried fixing a single steel...

I had 2 hens sitting on nests (planned) at the same time. Then another hen went missing and we thought she may be sitting on a nest too somewhere we couldn't find her (we are very remote and they can go anywhere). When the first 2 broodies hatched their eggs 2 weeks ago, the missing one also...

We've got a bit of an unforeseen problem in that we have two broody hens sitting on separate nests and one (possibly) broody sitting somewhere in the hedgerow on a nest (but we don't know where). So three broodies in total. All three are estimated to hatch roundabout the same time, give or take...

Hi all I've got a rooster and 10 hens and would like to put eggs under a (hopefully at some point) broody hen. How old can the eggs be I want to put under her? And what is the best method to store them until one becomes broody? I don't have an incubator as I'd like to do the 'natural' way. Any...

Hi all our 7 months old Cream Legbar rooster is all of a sudden sick: this morning we thought he had injured a leg as he didn't want to stand on his left leg, instead he just stood on the right leg. He crowed most of the day and ate and drank fine. But for the past four hours he has been sitting...

Hi all I am so proud of my wee (Scottish for small) Harvey that I made a 1 minute video of him as the one surviving chick and as fully grown rooster protecting his girls. Youtube video

Harvey, our 6 months old pet rooster is so tame he follows my hubby when he gets lost 😂: Youtube video

Hi all our neighbours have 6 drakes and 4 female ducks. Last year we tried to explain that the drakes are raping the females and that they will come after our (and their) chickens. They lost a chicken due to prolapse, but still don't want to admit that it was probably caused by drakes raping...

Hi all I've got a young rooster who is now 5 months old and although he has started crowing and making attempts at mating, some (but not all) of the girls bully him badly. He was the only chick which hatched and introducing him some months ago to the older girls went okay. He started at the...

Hi there Harvey hatched 4 months ago and had a kind of stripe on his (?) head, so I assumed he is a rooster. But he doesn't have any sign of a comb just yet. Is he just a slow developer or secretly a girl? I would like him to be a rooster as I want to breed next Spring 😃

Hi all Harvey is 11 days old and is going outside with mum for the first time, but as I a live in Scotland, the temperature is around 60 Fahrenheit (15C) during the day. How does mum know if Harvey gets too cold? Or will he peep and climb under her feathers when he feels cold? He knows how to...

Hi there 2 questions: 1) Can you add water to baby chick crumbs to make a kind of oatmeal/porridge? 2) can the mother hen peck the baby chick crumbs from the solid floor? The chick can, I've seen it doing that, but for a larger beak this is maybe not possible? I am worried that the mother...

Hello I've got a broody hen under which we put 12 fertilised eggs 14 days ago. She chucked out one egg after 2 days, then another a day later and we also found a damaged one this morning, which was partially incubated :( Do they know if the eggs are infertile? Or somehow not viable? And is that...

hello all I have read several threads on this forum and finally decided to join. Me and my husband have cared for chickens from 2013 and I didn't know they could had such personalities and could get so friendly with humans, I can honestly say: I just LOVE them! We started with ex-battery...